Internet Security
'Denial of service' cyberattacks are increasingly used to shut down websites. New research reveals that 911 call centers are vulnerable to the threat as well.
Unless security measures "improve significantly in the next four years, there will be literally billions of devices that could be compromised and used for malicious purposes."
More than 500 million Yahoo accounts were compromised, but the company didn't announce the security breach for years.
Engineers have devised a way to send secure passwords through the human body via smartphone fingerprint sensors and laptop touchpads -- rather than over the air where they're vulnerable to hacking.
Whether Snowden is seen as a hero or a traitor, he has sparked important discussions on privacy, cybersecurity, free speech, and government surveillance power.
"We've managed to put quantum-based technology that has been used in high profile science experiments into a package that might allow it to be used commercially."
Regular computers would take an "unimaginable amount of time" to break symmetric encryption, but quantum computers could do it in a fraction of the time.
A new tool against "an electronics age without trust."