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New technology to help users combat mobile malware attacks

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 10:06 AM PDT

Researchers have developed simple but effective techniques to prevent sophisticated malware from secretly attacking smartphones.

Quantum compute this: Mathematicians build code to take on toughest of cyber attacks

Posted: 26 Mar 2015 08:24 AM PDT

Mathematicians have designed an encryption code capable of fending off the phenomenal hacking power of a quantum computer. Using high-level number theory and cryptography, the researchers reworked an infamous old cipher called the knapsack code to create an online security system better prepared for future demands.