A group of businesses and universities, led by North Carolina State University, will work together to design and manufacture next-generation, low-power semiconductors, U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday.
Android smartphones and tablets are under attack, and the most popular tools developed to protect them are easily circumvented, according to new research from Northwestern University and the University of North Carolina.
With the new networking method, devices are able spot a problem unit and then isolate it from the network before it can do any damage
A novel technique based on MapReduce could let hackers hijack computing resources used by cloud-based mobile browsers and use them anonymously, according to security researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Oregon.
A researcher at North Carolina State University has uncovered a vulnerability that could be exploited to send deceptive text messages from some Android devices, as part of a phishing scheme.
North Carolina State University researchers say some <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a> smartphone makers' efforts to go above and beyond the Google mobile platform's basics open their devices to security breaches.
Michael Morris had a decade of networking and communications experience (including four years as a paratrooper in the U.S. Army) under his belt when he decided to go back to school to earn a Master's of Business Administration degree, or MBA. An IT manager at a $5 billion tech company, Morris leads a team of engineers responsible for data networks, storage area networks, IP telephony and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a>. His certifications include <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE).
A research team at North Carolina State University has proposed a way of measuring the impact of wireless denial-of-service attacks on Wi-Fi networks. It's a step toward building focused counter-measures that can make such attacks costly to pull off.
Researchers have spotted the first malware that exploits a critical vulnerability in Android 2.3, aka Gingerbread, finding samples tucked into legitimate apps on Chinese download sites.
Researchers at North Carolina State University claim they've achieved a breakthrough in how encryption can be used in technology called non-volatile main memory, which is seen as an eventual replacement for conventional dynamic random-access memory.
Unlike DRAM, with NVMM "when you turn off the power, the data remains there," Yan Solihin, associate professor of electrical and computing engineering at NC State, explains. He notes: "The advantage of that is clear - that's an advantage because it gives you an instant-on experience." But the downside in terms of security is that the user's application data, even as much as 4GB worth, "doesn't disappear from main memory. So if your computer is stolen, someone could easily read out the content of main memory."
In work conducted with graduate students, Solihin says NC State researchers completed building a hardware-based method to self- encrypt NVMM data. The idea is it might eventually become integrated into chipsets.
"We add an encryption engine to the memory module to encrypt to memory," Solihin says.
While software-based encryption has been offered before for NVMM, he believes this is likely the first hardware-based approach to the NVMM question. Encryption is known to greatly slow performance but under some conditions, where just 80 percent of memory storage is encrypted, there's only a 3 percent performance hit with the NC State approach. The remaining 20 percent is encrypted at power-down, he says. In contrast, it's not unusual to see a 50 percent slowdown due to encryption, he adds. The N.C. State project relies on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
Solihin says N.C. State is now looking toward how to commercialize its hardware-based encryption approach to NVMM by working with industry, where the hardware-based encryption could also find use in smartphones and other mobile devices.
Researchers at North Carolina State University claim they've achieved a breakthrough in how encryption can be used in technology called non-volatile main memory, which is seen as an eventual replacement for conventional dynamic random-access memory.
IBM's research division is working on several virtualization projects that could boost security of cloud computing networks, reduce data center power costs, and improve the ability to run multiple hypervisors and operating systems, including Linux and Windows.