Dallas says Royal ransomware breached its network using stolen account
i53gfThe City of Dallas, Texas, said this week that the Royal ransomware attack that forced it to shut down all IT systems in May started with a stolen account. Royal…
How ultracold, superdense atoms become invisible | MIT News
An atom’s electrons are arranged in energy shells. Like concertgoers in an arena, each electron occupies a single chair and cannot drop to a lower tier if all its chairs…
Voice control everywhere | MIT News
The butt of jokes as little as 10 years ago, automatic speech recognition is now on the verge of becoming people’s chief means of interacting with their principal computing devices.…
Chinese, North Korean Nation-State Groups Target Health Data
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Healthcare HHS Report Lists APT41, APT43 and Lazarus Among Top Threat Groups Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • September 22, 2023…
Sensor based on quantum physics could detect SARS-CoV-2 virus | MIT News
A novel approach to testing for the presence of the virus that causes Covid-19 may lead to tests that are faster, less expensive, and potentially less prone to erroneous results…
Researchers devise efficient power converter for internet of things | MIT News
The “internet of things” is the idea that vehicles, appliances, civil structures, manufacturing equipment, and even livestock will soon have sensors that report information directly to networked servers, aiding with…
Physicists discover “secret sauce” behind exotic properties of a new quantum material | MIT News
MIT physicists and colleagues have discovered the “secret sauce” behind some of the exotic properties of a new quantum material that has transfixed physicists due to those properties, which include…
Revolutionizing global health | MIT News
MIT research scientist Richard Fletcher directs the Mobile Technology Group at MIT D-Lab, which develops a variety of mobile sensors, analytic tools, and diagnostic algorithms to study problems in global…
A new language for quantum computing | MIT News
Time crystals. Microwaves. Diamonds. What do these three disparate things have in common? Quantum computing. Unlike traditional computers that use bits, quantum computers use qubits to encode information as zeros…
Internet of things: Let the avatars talk to each other | MIT News
On the 25th anniversary of the universal barcode in 1999, the barcode community gathered around Sanjay Sarma and his colleagues and said, “Let’s do this.” “Our idea,” says Sarma, vice…