Millions of the cryptographic digital certificates that secure internet communications and software updates have serious flaws that can be exploited, a presentation at the Keyfactor Tech Days conference in Miami last week demonstrated.”You stand up a web server, your customers come to you, a little lock pops up,” Keyfactor Chief Security Officer Chris Hickman told … Read more
The popular image of female spies as glamorous femmes fatales obscures a far more interesting history, writes Helen Fry. The histories of intelligence, spies and espionage have traditionally contained few women in their storylines and this has led to women being the missing dimension in history for too long. The reality could not be more … Read more
Over the past year, a series of indictments and threat intelligence reports uncovered a sophisticated program to place North Korea-affiliated operatives into remote IT jobs around the world. In January, the U.S. Justice Department indicted five men for operating one such scheme that profited nearly $900,000. North Korean operatives, using deepfakes, laptop farms, and stolen … Read more
That mission, and the 2020 Chang’e-5 robotic mission before it, are the first to return lunar rocks to Earth since the 1970s. Together they are building on what scientists learned from Apollo-era missions, helping to unravel mysteries about how the Moon was formed and why it looks the way it does today, and providing clues … Read more
In June 2024, the European Union adopted the AI Act, globally the first attempt to comprehensively regulate artificial intelligence (AI). As the uptake of AI increases across all domains, so will the impact of the AI Act. At the national level, experimentation with AI systems in the public realm occurs especially in public administration. Examples … Read more
