Cybersecurity

BYD is rising as one of the world's top auto manufacturers... But not in the USA

Automotive

US considering ban on 'connected vehicle' tech with China/Russia ties

An underreported proposal from the US government could see the sale and import of connected vehicle components prohibited if they're linked to China or Russia. The rule could have far-reaching effects, but it seems motorcyclists might feel it first.

Australian scientists have developed a new type of cybersecurity system called ineffable cryptography

Computing

New cybersecurity tech treats keys like the Colonel's secret recipe

Cybersecurity is a growing concern as more critical infrastructure can be exposed to hacks. Now Australian engineers have developed and demonstrated a new technique called “ineffable cryptography,” which treats keys like the Coca-Cola secret formula.

Cyber warfare involves fighting battles with keyboards and algorithms instead of guns and bombs

Military

Why Russia's cyber war in Ukraine hasn't played out as predicted

Why has a major cyber warfare power like Russia launch so few and such ineffective cyber attacks against Ukraine and its sympathizers? New Atlas looks into the digital battle for Ukraine and its implications for the future.

Project Riot demonstrated how various platforms can be digitally linked in a combat situation

Military

Project Riot demonstrates networked missile defense

Lockheed Martin, the Missile Defense Agency and the USAF connected an F-35, U-2 spy-plane, and a ground station as part of a missile defense exercise.

Australia's prospective anti-encryption legislation may be passed over the next few months

Computing

Apple slams Australia's anti-encryption bill, calling it "dangerously ambiguous"

In an expansive submission to the Australian Parliament, Apple has strongly condemned the government’s prospective anti-encryption legislation, arguing “this is no time to weaken encryption,” and calling the draft outline “extraordinarily broad” and “dangerously ambitious.”

Among IBM's annual 5 in 5 list is the world's smallest computer, smaller than a grain of salt – seen here as the tiny white dot on the lefthand corner of the chip

Computing

World's smallest computer and unhackable data top IBM's annual future-tech list

IBM Research has released its annual “5 in 5” list, outlining five technologies that the company believes will be instrumental over the next five years. This year’s list focuses on security and AI, predicting that by 2023 we’ll have unhackable encryption, unbiased AI and mainstream quantum computers

Trying to hack the "unhackable" Morpheus system is described as like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube that is constantly being rearranged

Computing

DARPA backs development of "unhackable" Morpheus computer system

Cyberwarfare is a growing problem, with 2017 seeing some of the most devious attacks ever. As part of a US$50-million DARPA program to improve cybersecurity, computer scientists at the University of Michigan are developing a security system baked into the hardware that's said to be “unhackable.”

Cyber security researchers have shown how the innocent LEDs on a hard drive can be hacked to flash out encoded data to a camera drone

Computing

Air-gapping is no protection from drone-wielding hackers

Keeping an "air gap" between a hard drive and other devices forces any would-be thief to physically go to the machine ... or so you might think. Researchers have shown that hackers could use the flashing LED on the outside of a computer to beam data to a waiting drone.

Last year the Pentagon was subject to a number of foreign hacks

Computing

Pentagon puts the call out to hackers to test its cyber defences

The US may boast the world's most powerful military, but its online databases are far from indomitable, as a recent spate of cyberattacks seems to suggest. The Pentagon is now inviting hackers to have at its public webpages as part of an initiative to highlight its cybersecurity vulnerabilities.