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Newswise: Innovative blockchain technology balances privacy with regulatory compliance
Released: 27-Feb-2024 9:00 AM EST
Innovative blockchain technology balances privacy with regulatory compliance
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Blockchain's inherent transparency, while beneficial for validation and trust, poses significant privacy concerns. Traditional transactions on public blockchains are permanently visible, compromising user privacy. This visibility has been a double-edged sword, providing transparency but at the cost of personal data exposure. A new protocol called Privacy Pools offers a potential solution to the seemingly contradictory goals of blockchain privacy and regulatory compliance.

Newswise: Anti-vaccine conspiracies fuel divisive political discourse
Released: 26-Feb-2024 9:05 PM EST
Anti-vaccine conspiracies fuel divisive political discourse
University of Tokyo

Heightened use of social media during the coronavirus pandemic brought with it an unprecedented surge in the spread of misinformation.

   
Newswise: AI and the spread of fake news sites: experts explain how to counteract them
Released: 23-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
AI and the spread of fake news sites: experts explain how to counteract them
Virginia Tech

With national elections looming in the United States, concerns about misinformation are sharper than ever, and advances in artificial intelligence have made distinguishing genuine news sites from fake ones even more challenging. Virginia Tech experts explore three different facets of the AI-fueled spread of fake news sites and the efforts to combat them.

Newswise: Collegiate cyber defenders shine in CyberForce Program’s inaugural Conquer the Hill — Command Edition competition
Released: 20-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
Collegiate cyber defenders shine in CyberForce Program’s inaugural Conquer the Hill — Command Edition competition
Argonne National Laboratory

More than 75 college students competed to test their skills in the fundamentals of IT and cybersecurity infrastructure in the DOE CyberForce Program’s inaugural Conquer the Hill — Command Edition competition.

Newswise: New study finds anti-piracy messages backfire, especially for men
Released: 20-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
New study finds anti-piracy messages backfire, especially for men
University of Portsmouth

Threatening messages aimed to prevent digital piracy have the opposite effect if you’re a man, a new study from the University of Portsmouth has found.

Newswise: UAH re-designated as National Center of Academic Excellence in cyber research
Released: 6-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
UAH re-designated as National Center of Academic Excellence in cyber research
University of Alabama Huntsville

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has been re-designated as a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research (CAE-R) by the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C). The designation was earned after a comprehensive review of cybersecurity-related research activities and outcomes from the students, faculty and research staff involved in computer science and computer engineering doctoral programs and in the UAH Center for Cybersecurity Research and Education (CCRE).

Released: 6-Feb-2024 9:05 AM EST
Bristol scientists supercharge Artificial Intelligence in revolutionary £80million UK initiative
University of Bristol

Experts are helping put the UK at the forefront of AI advances, using it to transform current uses and tackle important global challenges.

Released: 1-Feb-2024 8:05 AM EST
How to Run a Password Update Campaign Efficiently and With Minimal IT Costs
University of California San Diego

Computer scientists found that email notifications to update passwords potentially yielded diminishing returns after three messages.

Released: 29-Jan-2024 3:30 AM EST
Addressing Cyberscams and Acquired Brain Injury (“I Desperately Need to Know What to Do”): Qualitative Exploration of Clinicians’ and Service Providers’ Perspectives
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Background: People with acquired brain injury (ABI) may be more susceptible to scams owing to postinjury cognitive and psychosocial consequences. Cyberscams result in financial loss and debilitating psychological impacts such as sham...

Newswise: ORNL wins five Federal Laboratory Consortium awards
Released: 24-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
ORNL wins five Federal Laboratory Consortium awards
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers, staff members and licensees from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory received top honors in the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s annual awards competition for excellence in technology transfer, excellence in technology transfer innovation, outstanding researcher and regional technology transfer.

Newswise: Offshore wind farms are vulnerable to cyberattacks, new Concordia study shows
Released: 24-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST
Offshore wind farms are vulnerable to cyberattacks, new Concordia study shows
Concordia University

The hurrying pace of societal electrification is encouraging from a climate perspective. But the transition away from fossil fuels toward renewable sources like wind presents new risks that are not yet fully understood.

Newswise: Disinformation can reinforce polarization in society
Released: 24-Jan-2024 9:00 AM EST
Disinformation can reinforce polarization in society
Aalto University

Researchers from Aalto University and the University of Helsinki studied how real-world shocks affect online discussions, and found that disinformation reinforces polarization.

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Released: 22-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Experts recommend focusing on digital privacy and wellness in 2024
Virginia Tech

As 2024 gets underway, many people are focused on new year’s resolutions – eat healthier, quit smoking, catch up with family. But what about your online privacy and safety? Virginia Tech information privacy and cybersecurity experts and co-founders of Voices of Privacy, France Bélanger and Donna Wertalik say now is also a good time to make resolutions about protecting your and your loved ones’ information in the digital world.

Newswise: Center for Advanced Research in Forensic Science enters Phase II
Released: 22-Jan-2024 8:05 AM EST
Center for Advanced Research in Forensic Science enters Phase II
Texas A&M AgriLife

Texas A&M is collaborating with center-lead Florida International University and Sam Houston State University within the nation’s only forensic science Industry-University Cooperative Research Center.

Newswise: FAU Engineering Receives $2.6 Million NSF Grant for CyberCorps Student Scholarship Program
Released: 18-Jan-2024 8:30 AM EST
FAU Engineering Receives $2.6 Million NSF Grant for CyberCorps Student Scholarship Program
Florida Atlantic University

FAU received a $2.6 million grant from the NSF to establish a scholarship program in the burgeoning and critical field of cybersecurity. The NSF’s CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service program seeks to increase the number of qualified cybersecurity professionals working for federal, state, local, territorial and tribal governments.

Newswise: AI Could Make Cyber Threats Harder to Detect
Released: 18-Jan-2024 6:05 AM EST
AI Could Make Cyber Threats Harder to Detect
Southern Methodist University

Gone are the days when the tell-tale signs of a ‘phishing’ scam were fairly easy to spot, SMU cybersecurity experts warn: Hackers are increasingly using generative AI (artificial intelligence) to write more convincing emails and bogus advertisements.

Newswise: Idaho National Laboratory adds new members Sue Gordon, John Kelly and Chris Stewart to advisory committee
Released: 17-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Idaho National Laboratory adds new members Sue Gordon, John Kelly and Chris Stewart to advisory committee
Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

Idaho National Laboratory has added three esteemed experts to its National and Homeland Security Strategic Advisory Committee. The newest members are Sue Gordon, John Kelly and Chris Stewart, who have had extensive and notable roles in safeguarding United States national security.

Released: 12-Jan-2024 10:05 PM EST
Phishing scams: Don't drop your guard
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Recently, one of my acquaintances, Frank, received an email late on a Monday afternoon with the subject line, “Are you still in the office?” It appeared to come from his manager, who claimed to be stuck in a long meeting without the means to urgently purchase online gift vouchers for clients.

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Released: 10-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Tabletop Exercise at Johns Hopkins APL Prepares Government and Industry for Bioeconomy Security Threats
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Representatives from the federal government, academia and private industry convened at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, for a tabletop exercise to assess the nation’s preparedness for security threats unique to the bioeconomy. In May 2023, several dozen experts in public health, policy, cyber, physical sciences and law came together to identify vulnerabilities, develop mitigation recommendations and establish a greater understanding of the extent of the threats to key biological capabilities.

Released: 4-Jan-2024 5:05 PM EST
UA Little Rock Partners with ACDS to Create Career Pathway for Computer Science Students
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is partnering with the Arkansas Center for Data Sciences (ACDS) to create an innovative new program that will strengthen educational pathways for computer science and cybersecurity majors at UA Little Rock while helping to fill the workforce gap for Arkansas employers.

Newswise: Energy resilience: FAMU-FSU College of Engineering professor will improve electric grid cybersecurity with $2.9M Department of Energy award
Released: 4-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Energy resilience: FAMU-FSU College of Engineering professor will improve electric grid cybersecurity with $2.9M Department of Energy award
Florida State University

Assistant Professor Olugbenga Moses Anubi’s project “Concurrent Learning Cyber-Physical Framework for Resilient Electric Power System,” or CyberPREPS, will allow energy transmission systems to keep functioning in the wake of cyberattacks.

Released: 22-Dec-2023 9:30 AM EST
SLU Professor and Doctoral Candidate Launch Company, Network Security Mobile App
Saint Louis University

A Saint Louis University professor and a doctoral student have launched an app to help everyday users manage their wireless networks and learn about cybersecurity.

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Released: 19-Dec-2023 9:30 AM EST
Eric Burger elected fellow of National Academy of Inventors
Virginia Tech

Eric Burger has been named a 2023 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

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Released: 7-Dec-2023 11:05 AM EST
Saddling up cryptosystems for a quantum showdown
Virginia Tech

A lone ranger riding off into the sunset might say something sage and vague, such as “a man is only as good as his word.” But these gritty prophets never said anything about verifying a man’s — or anyone else’s — word in the wild frontiers of the digital or quantum era.

Released: 28-Nov-2023 6:05 PM EST
Can AI push the boundaries of privacy and reach the subconscious mind?
Universitat Oberta De Catalunya (UOC)

Influencing the US election or the UK's political future by using a combination of the personal information posted on Facebook by millions of people and powerful data analysis technology.

Newswise: WVU to establish innovative cybersecurity education, training facility
Released: 28-Nov-2023 1:00 PM EST
WVU to establish innovative cybersecurity education, training facility
West Virginia University

With the ongoing threat of cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated, West Virginia University is launching plans for a cybersecurity range — a specialized software and hardware facility for education, training and research — with $750,000 in grant funding support from the U.S. Department of Education.

Released: 28-Nov-2023 9:30 AM EST
MSU survey: 7 in 10 consumers deceived into buying counterfeit products online
Michigan State University

Research from Michigan State University sheds light on effective strategies for educating consumers about the dangers of buying counterfeits online.

Newswise: Defending your voice against deepfakes
Released: 27-Nov-2023 2:05 PM EST
Defending your voice against deepfakes
Washington University in St. Louis

Computer scientists led by Ning Zhang at the McKelvey School of Engineering developed AntiFake, a tool to protect voice recordings from unauthorized speech synthesis.

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Released: 20-Nov-2023 12:05 PM EST
Virginia Tech opens world’s first fully automated AI and cyberbiosecurity water lab
Virginia Tech

In 2021, a water treatment facility in Oldsmar, Florida, was hacked by an unknown adversary. It was a cyberattack, and the sensor responsible for measuring how much sodium hydroxide is in the water was compromised. Within seconds, the hacker attempted to change the water supply's levels of sodium hydroxide, moving the setting from 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million.

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Released: 17-Nov-2023 9:05 AM EST
Tips to avoid charity scams during the holidays
Virginia Tech

For many people, the holiday season is a time to giveback. It’s also the time of year when scammers ramp up their efforts to take advantage of your goodwill to steal your hard earned money.  

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Released: 17-Nov-2023 9:05 AM EST
Cybercrime expert offers safety tips for online holiday shopping
Virginia Tech

The holiday shopping season is ramping up and unfortunately, so are criminals looking to take advantage of your urge to get discounted prices.

10-Nov-2023 7:00 AM EST
Globus Announces Support for Dropbox
Globus

Globus, the de facto standard platform for research IT, announced today the general availability of Globus for Dropbox. The new premium connector allows users to access Dropbox cloud storage, thereby enabling a unified interface for data transfer, sharing, task automation and publication across all of the organization’s storage systems.

Released: 9-Nov-2023 1:05 PM EST
Study probes risks to power plants from electromagnetic pulse
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been leading a project to understand how a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, could threaten power plants.

Released: 7-Nov-2023 6:05 PM EST
Reliable security online for protection against fraud
University of Bonn

Is there a feasible way to enjoy more effective online fraud protection that is more consumer-friendly at the same time? This question is being worked on by University of Bonn researchers in collaboration with the Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure (FIZ) in Karlsruhe and the University of Duisburg-Essen, who are jointly developing an online platform that affords better protection against identity data misuse for both consumers and merchants.

Released: 7-Nov-2023 2:00 PM EST
University of Central Florida team crowned champion at the 2023 CyberForce Competition®
Argonne National Laboratory

University of Central Florida won the 2023 CyberForce Competition which aimed to inspire and strengthen the next generation of cybersecurity professionals to tackle real-world issues.

Released: 2-Nov-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Learning to forget – a weapon in the arsenal against harmful AI
University of Warwick

In a world increasingly aware of the environmental challenges posed by microplastics, a pioneering study conducted by Ruxandra Malina Petrescu-Mag from Babes-Bolyai University, and published in PeerJ Life & Environment, sheds new light on the impact of media narratives on public perception and awareness of microplastic risks.

   
Newswise: UWF, Leidos partner to launch cybersecurity infrastructure lab
Released: 1-Nov-2023 12:05 PM EDT
UWF, Leidos partner to launch cybersecurity infrastructure lab
University of West Florida

UWF and Leidos, a Fortune 500® science and technology leader, have launched the Leidos Cybersecurity Infrastructure Lab in UWF Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering.

Released: 31-Oct-2023 1:45 PM EDT
National Security Expert Honored by American University for Promoting Inclusivity in Technology Policy
American University

National Security Expert Honored by American University for Promoting Inclusivity in Technology Policy

Newswise: WashU Expert: Your smart speaker data is used in ways you might not expect
Released: 27-Oct-2023 7:05 AM EDT
WashU Expert: Your smart speaker data is used in ways you might not expect
Washington University in St. Louis

“Hey, Alexa, play the latest Taylor Swift album.” Smart speakers offer amazing convenience — from playing your favorite tunes to re-ordering toilet paper — with only a simple voice command. But that convenience can come with a steep cost in privacy that many consumers aren’t even aware they’re paying.

Newswise: First ever study of wartime deepfakes reveals their impact on news media
Released: 25-Oct-2023 5:05 PM EDT
First ever study of wartime deepfakes reveals their impact on news media
University College Cork

A first ever study of wartime deepfake videos reveals their impact on news media and outlines implications for social media companies, media organisations and governments.

Released: 25-Oct-2023 2:05 PM EDT
MSU expert: Tips to protect your security and data when shopping online
Michigan State University

Thomas Holt is a professor and the director of on-campus master’s programs for the School of Criminal Justice in Michigan State University’s College of Social Science. Holt shares tips to help you reduce the risk of identity theft or scams as you begin holiday shopping.



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