Science & Technology - Wednesday, February 24, 2010 13:01 - 3 Comments
Mobile threat for ’smart phone’ users
Computer science graduate student Jeffrey Bickford holds a smart phone used to test malicious software. The researchers say security attacks on smart phones or upcoming tablet computers by a type of malware known as “rootkits” could be more devastating than such attacks on personal computers because smart phone owners tend to carry their phones with them all the time. (Credit: Carl Blesch)
RUTGERS (US)—A type of malware known to affect personal computers can now attack smart mobile phones, potentially causing a phone to eavesdrop on a meeting, track an owner’s travels, or rapidly drain its battery to render the phone useless. Continue…
Science & Technology - Nov 16, 2009 18:20 - 2 Comments
Asking smarter security questions
Studies suggest that questions about recent activities are easy for legitimate users to answer but harder for potential intruders to find or guess, computer scientists Danfeng Yao explains. “We want the question to be dynamic. The questions you get today will be different from the ones you would get tomorrow.”
RUTGERS—The trouble with most online security questions is that they’re not very secure, according to Danfeng Yao. Continue…
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