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Data Breach Prevention: Strategies For Proactive Cyber Defense
Data breach prevention techniques help businesses reduce existing threats or recognize potential risks before they result in a breach.
Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Their Role within the Blockchain
An examination of the intricate world of zero-knowledge proofs and how they may be used to enhance blockchain security and privacy.
Security Challenges of Intent-Based Networking
Intent-based networking allows operators to describe the high-level intent of what they want a network to do.
Age Verification Systems Will Be a Personal Identifiable Information Nightmare
Online age verification requirements for websites are a disaster for privacy, and pose a cybersecurity risk.
From Open Access to Guarded Trust
Engineers stand at a unique confluence, where the exhilarating promise of innovation meets the sobering responsibility of trust stewardship.
Technical Perspective: Tracing the Network Traffic Fingerprinting Techniques of OpenVPN
"OpenVPN is Open to VPN Fingerprinting," by Diwen Xue et al., investigates network traffic fingerprinting of a very popular privacy technique—OpenVPN.
OpenVPN Is Open to VPN Fingerprinting
In this paper, we explore the implications of deep packet inspection for VPN detection and blocking.
Lattice-Based Cryptosystems and Quantum Cryptanalysis
There have been decades of unsuccessful research into breaking lattice-based systems with classical computers; there has been much less research into quantum cryptanalysis.
LLM Hallucinations: A Bug or A Feature?
Researchers are taking a multitude of approaches to deal with AI hallucinations.
On the Difference between Security and Safety
Safe networking requires us to be skeptical of messages that try to stampede us into action without enough forethought.
LLMs’ Data-Control Path Insecurity
We need to think carefully about using LLMs in potentially adversarial situations . . . like on the Internet.
The Dangers of Digitization, and The Importance of Data Backup
Digitization excludes many people from social or economic life, while the importance of data backups cannot be overestimated.
Maximizing Power Grid Security
Developing hybrid attack graphs to identify, and mitigate, potential attacks on the national electrical grid.
In this short sci-fi story, an egg-sized, flying droid makes an apartment dweller’s life miserable.
How can the interference of artificial intelligence be limited or eliminated in the 2024 U.S. elections?
Developer Ecosystems for Software Safety
Building safety and security considerations into the design of the developer ecosystem.
Perspectives on AI from Around the Globe
International experts highlight universal trends and local nuances on the state of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
In Memoriam: Ross Anderson, 1956-2024
A researcher, author, and industry consultant in security engineering, Anderson also was a professor of Security Engineering at the Department of Computer Science and Technology of the U.K.'s University of Cambridge.
New tools aim to disrupt generative AI models to shield creative content from unauthorized usage.
The Risks of Source Code Breaches
Why attackers want your source code, and what to do about it.
The Return of Age Verification Laws
Considering the ways in which free-speech law could shift rapidly.
Shape the Future of Computing
ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.
Get InvolvedCommunications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication.
By opening CACM to the world, we hope to increase engagement among the broader computer science community and encourage non-members to discover the rich resources ACM has to offer.
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