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Americans Most Worried About Hacking Risk of Driverless Cars

U.S. residents are “polarized” on whether to embrace driverless cars, according to a survey by insurer American International Group Inc. The 1,000 people polled were almost equally split on whether they were comfortable sharing the road with autonomous vehicles, with …

Researchers Say Popular Robots Dangerously Easy to Hack

Some of the most popular industrial and consumer robots are dangerously easy to hack and could be turned into bugging devices or weapons, IOActive Inc. said. The Seattle-based cybersecurity firm found major security flaws in industrial models sold by Universal …

Researchers Find 2 Ways to Make IoT Configuration Easy and More Secure

With an ever increasing number of everyday objects from our homes, workplaces and even from our wardrobes, getting connected to the Internet, known as the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT), researchers from the University of Southampton have identified easy-to-use techniques to …

Computer Scientist Finds Device Flaws in Common Goods

For most people, computer security means just that: Keeping viruses off your desktop or laptop, your PC or your Mac. But when Tadayoshi Kohno thinks of computers and security, he thinks about the vulnerabilities inherent in a whole range of …