App uses smartphone compass to stop voice hacking
▻https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170605124108.htm
Engineers are creating an app to stop voice hacking. The app uses existing smartphone components, including the magnetometer for the phone’s compass, to detect when someone’s voice is being broadcast on a speaker.
Catching the IMSI-catchers: SeaGlass brings transparency to cell phone surveillance
▻https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170602143804.htm
Security researchers have developed a new system called SeaGlass to detect anomalies in the cellular landscape that can indicate where and when IMSI-catchers, cell-site simulators and other devices used in cell phone surveillance are present.
Random numbers: Hard times ahead for hackers
▻https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170531092244.htm
Whenever we need to communicate in secret, a cryptographic key is needed. For this key to work, it must consist of numbers chosen at random without any structure – just the opposite of using the birthdate of our favorite pet. But, for a human, it is extremely difficult to choose without creating any bias, even by hitting the keyboard chaotically, warn experts. But a new report offers hope.
Taking control back from the cloud
▻https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170529142439.htm
A user-controlled file security scheme makes it possible to instantly revoke access to files hosted on Internet cloud servers.
System piggybacks on Bitcoin to prevent identity theft
▻https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170524131131.htm
Researchers have developed a new system that uses Bitcoin’s security machinery to defend against online identity theft.
The key to private and efficient data storage
▻https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170429212501.htm
Cloud storage services, like Dropbox and Gmail, may soon be able to better manage your content, giving you more storage capacity while still being unable to ‘read’ your data.
Unpolarized single-photon generation with true randomness from diamond
▻https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170508112406.htm
Scientists have demonstrated dynamically and statically unpolarized single-photon generation using diamond.
New password meter that will change how users make passwords
▻https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170508112436.htm
Researchers have just unveiled a new, state-of-the-art password meter that offers real-time feedback and advice to help people create better passwords.
Kids, parents alike worried about privacy with internet-connected toys
▻https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170510131929.htm
Researchers have conducted a new study that explores the attitudes and concerns of both parents and children who play with internet-connected toys. Through a series of in-depth interviews and observations, the researchers found that kids didn’t know their toys were recording their conversations, and parents generally worried about their children’s privacy when they played with the toys.
Under cyber attack: Researchers look at how to catch a ’phisher’
▻https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170516153932.htm
As cybersecurity experts scramble to stop another wave of ransomware and malware scams that have infected computers around the world, computer science experts are ’phishing’ for reasons why these types of attacks are so successful.