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Simple Password Guidance Can Significantly Improve Account Security
A simple and effective way to make internet accounts more secure and harder to crack is by offering detailed support and guidance to technology users when creating account passwords, according to a joint study by researchers from the University of Plymouth in the UK, McGill University in Canada, and Purdue University. The paper is published… Read More
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University at Buffalo: No More Logins for Computer Security, Heart Recognition Instead
A team of researchers, led by Wenyao Xu, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University at Buffalo’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (UB), has developed a biometric scanner that verifies a computer user’s identity by recognizing the geometry of their heart. Biometric scanners use physical features as an alternative to password… Read More
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NYU Abu Dhabi Researchers Develop New ‘Logic-Locked’ Unhackable Computer Chip Technology
Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi’s (NYUAD) Design for Excellence (Dfx) lab have developed a new unhackable computer chip technology with security features implemented at the hardware level. Chips that are “logic-locked” are not vulnerable to hacking, and cannot be copied. Cyber security attacks have become rampant over the past 20 years. In the… Read More
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University at Buffalo Researchers Develop New Optical Device That Could Detect Drugs or Explosives
A team of researchers led by engineers from University at Buffalo in New York (UB) has developed an optical device that has the potential to vastly increase the sensitivity and effectiveness of current drug and explosive detection techniques. The University Network (TUN) spoke with Qiaoqiang Gan, associate professor of electrical engineering in the School of… Read More
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MIT Researchers Thwart Online Identity Theft by Piggybacking onto Bitcoin
MIT researchers have designed a solution to prevent online identity theft, using bitcoin blockchain technology. The system is called Catena, and the researchers are Alin Tomescu, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the paper, and his thesis advisor Srini Devadas, the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering… Read More
