Security

Dr. Patricia Esteve-Gonzalez from Oxford University’s Global Cyber Security Capacity Center (GCSCC), Department of Computer Science, and Luna Rohland from the World Economic Forum Center for Cybersecurity, outline how organizations can take a strategic approach […]

When the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, was proposed in 2008, the goal was simple: to create a digital currency free from banks and governments. Over time, that idea evolved into something much bigger: “decentralized finance,” or […]

The growing use of smart home devices is undermining the privacy and safety of domestic workers. New research from King’s College London reveals how surveillance technologies reinforce a sense of constant monitoring and control by […]

Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford have uncovered a dramatic rise in easily accessible AI tools specifically designed to create deepfake images of identifiable people, finding nearly 35,000 such […]

Imagine applying for a job, only to find out that an algorithm powered by artificial intelligence (AI) rejected your résumé before a human even saw it. Or imagine visiting a doctor where treatment options are […]

Researchers at the University of Tokyo developed a framework to enable decentralized artificial intelligence-based building automation with a focus on privacy. The system enables AI-powered devices like cameras and interfaces to cooperate directly, using a […]

When you send a message through WhatsApp or iMessage, you might think only you and the recipient can read it. Thanks to end-to-end encryption (E2EE), that’s usually true, but it’s not the whole story, says […]

Almost 80% of U.K. adults support national security agencies collecting and processing personal data to investigate terrorism and serious crime, according to new research by the Center for Emerging Technology and Security (CETaS) at The […]

Imagine a world where deepfakes have become so good that no detection mechanism can unmask them as impostors. This would be a bonanza for criminals and malignant state actors: for example, these might use deepfakes […]

In its latest annual publication, insurance group Hiscox surveyed more than 2,000 cybersecurity managers in eight countries, including France. Two-thirds of the companies in the survey reported having been the victim of a cyberattack between […]