If your phone falls into the hands of criminals, do not panic. Here is how to protect your data. By Leonid Grustniy If you can’t find your phone, don’t panic. Exhaust your good options — maybe you misplaced it or lent it to someone, or buried it...
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COVID-19 cases are falling week on week, so can we allow ourselves to be hopeful? By Priya Joi The global number of COVID-19 cases and deaths has fallen for the sixth week in a row, marking a sharp downward trend in the pandemic. So much so, in...
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Protecting individual data is not enough when the harms are collective By Martin Tisne Every person engaged with the networked world constantly creates rivers of data. We do this in ways we are aware of, and ways that we aren’t. Corporations are...
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Ireland said on Thursday that experts were examining a decryption tool that had been posted online that might help unlock IT systems disabled by a massive ransomware attack on its health service operator. By Reuters The government said it had...
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Hundreds of scientists around the world are working together to understand one of the most powerful emerging technologies before it’s too late. By Karen Hao On May 18, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced an impressive new tool: an AI system...
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Ubiquitous video surveillance has become the hallmark of the century, with millions of eyes behind billions of ever-present cameras constantly watching over our shoulders. Research by the CyberNews team shows that most public-facing cameras...
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The Simorgh supercomputer, named after a mythical Persian bird, was developed by Iranian engineers. By Maziar Motamedi Tehran, Iran – Iran has unveiled a supercomputer – its strongest till date – developed domestically by Tehran’s Amirkabir...
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Cryptocurrency mining (cryptomining) uses the processing power of computers to solve complex mathematical problems and verify cybercurrency transactions, and the miners are then rewarded with a small amount of cybercurrency. By ACSC...
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New trials on mixing different types of vaccines are underway. Could vaccine combinations help stop variants from bypassing our immune systems? By Cassandra Willyard A dozen covid-19 vaccines are now being used around the world. Most require two...
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Investment in bedside oxygen production could make hospitals more resilient in the face of COVID-19. By Linda Geddes Harrowing stories of patients dying for lack of oxygen in Delhi hospitals have focused international attention on where this...
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Cybersecurity researchers share their predictions for how cybercrime and the threat landscape will evolve in the year ahead. By David Emm Predicting the future is notoriously precarious. Who would have foreseen a year like 2020? Kaspersky’s...
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Insurance companies, banks, and health-care organizations can dramatically improve their risk models by analyzing images of policyholders’ houses, say researchers. By Emerging Technology from the arXi Google Street View has become a surprisingly...
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