With a chilling hint of the not-so-distant future, researchers at the Usenix Security conference have demonstrated a zero-day vulnerability in your brain. Using a commercial off-the-shelf brain-computer interface, the researchers have shown that it’s possible to [...]
Greenland‘s massive ice sheet has melted at a record-setting pace this year–and summer isn’t over yey Greenland’s massive ice sheet is melting at a record pace this summer. By Aug. 8, this year’s summer melt [...]
A new threat targeting infrastructure in the energy industry has been uncovered by security specialists. The attack, known as Shamoon, is said to have hit “at least one organisation” in the sector. Shamoon is capable [...]
We’re charging headlong into a future filled with one-way mirrors behind which the rich spy on the poor, and the strong on the weak. Last week Wikileaks–remember them?–released a sheaf of documents about the Trapwire [...]
It is one of the more elusive commercial cyberespionage tools available. It is marketed as a way for governments to spy on criminals. And for over a year, virus hunters unsuccessfully tried to track it [...]
Irrigation has helped farmers feed a population that has now reached 7 billion people. But in many places farmers have overused underground aquifers that have taken thousands of years to form, drawing down the fossil [...]
A survey of teachers from the United States and Canada found that one out of four educators who used live animals as part of their science curriculum released the organisms into the wild after they [...]
Scientists in the United States have identified a new strain of influenza in harbour seals that could potentially impact human and animal health. The H3N8 flu has been associated with the deaths of harbour seals [...]
The failure to protect the Flame code from being reverse engineered may turn out to have been a monumental error. The discovery of a new species of highly sophisticated malware earlier this week adds another [...]
Advanced cyberwar is different THE decision by the United States and Israel to develop and then deploy the Stuxnet computer worm against an Iranian nuclear facility late in George W. Bush’s presidency marked a significant [...]
Magic, they call it. And indeed we may add an appendix to that old saw: any sufficiently advanced, or sufficiently obscure, technology is indistinguishable from magic. You must know the story of the Mechanical Turk. [...]
The oppression industry is bad enough now … The government of Syria uses made-in-California technology from BlueCoat Systems to censor the Internet and spy on its pro-democracy activists (who are regularly arrested and tortured, [...]