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What is graphene?

What is graphene?

...silvery trail behind. Each of those layers, though, could revolutionise electronics and engineering. Each of those layers is a material that — unless you have been... Read more

6 June, 2011 by Lucy Sherriff

Bigwigs creating big risks of social-engineering attack

...High-level executives are one of the biggest social engineering risks for organisations, according to a security expert. Senior executives often demand... Read more

18 June, 2010 by Vivian Yeo

BBC launches audio research partnership

...universities. The BBC has teamed up with five universities to research audio engineering. Pictured is the new listening room at BBC R&D's North... Read more

8 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Skype denounces 'nefarious' reverse engineering

A researcher who claims to have reverse engineered the Skype protocol has been accused of enabling 'malicious activities like spamming and phishing', and of infringing on Skype's intellectual property Read more

3 June, 2011 by David Meyer

Phishing scammers tap Google Docs for data gathering

...can create a form, Google is trusted as a brand, making social-engineering attacks based on Google Docs forms more likely to succeed, said Hypponen... Read more

31 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Over-reliance on GPS poses security risk, warn experts

...Researchers from the Royal Academy of Engineering have warned that an over-reliance on Global Positioning Systems could lead... Read more

8 March, 2011 by Ben Woods

Google adds VP8 video tech to standards group

...Google's VP8 encoding technology now has a home at the Internet Engineering Task Force. Google representatives published the VP8 Data Format and Decoding Guide... Read more

24 January, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Russian space systems hacked in Lurid attack

...of a cyberattack dubbed 'Operation Shady Rat' by security vendor McAfee. Social-engineering attacksIn the Lurid campaign, hackers infected the systems through a series of... Read more

23 September, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Ferroelectrics study points way to low-power computing

...started in 2008 and led by Asif Khan, a UC Berkeley electrical engineering graduate student, and Sayeef Salahuddin, a UC Berkeley assistant professor of electrical... Read more

13 September, 2011 by Dong Ngo
The overlooked risk to the internet

The overlooked risk to the internet

...ends. The typical methods used in these attacks rely either on social engineering, where attempts are made to dupe users into divulging information, or on... Read more

8 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Symantec highlights iOS and Android flaws

...Symantec's UK security strategist Siân John. "People are open to social engineering," she told ZDNet UK. For security, software makers can restrict their applications... Read more

29 June, 2011 by Tom Espiner
How IE9 uses app reputation to axe malware

How IE9 uses app reputation to axe malware

...sort of stuff. And then there are attacks on the users, social engineering — that's what we focus on. We already deal with two types... Read more

5 February, 2011 by Mary Branscombe

Iana allocates final IPv4 address blocks

...Kolkmann, chairman of the internet architecture board of the non-profit Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), said at the press conference that organisations that switched... Read more

4 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

IT specialists top list of unemployed grads

Technology graduates in 2009 had the highest unemployment rates of all university leavers six months after graduation, according to the Higher Education Careers Services Unit Read more

2 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

'World's thinnest' metallic lines drive miniaturisation

...miniaturisation of devices, they say. Singapore's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) unveiled on Tuesday that scientists from the institute, the University of... Read more

8 July, 2010 by Kevin Kwang

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