News Briefs

Volume

47

Issue

10

fYear

2014

fDate

Oct. 2014

Firstpage

14

Lastpage

20

Abstract

Topics include an intensification of the digital crime wave that began in late 2013; technology companies supporting an inexpensive wireless technology that could bring Internet access to poor and remote areas; Intel developing a small, energy-efficient chip that could enable ultrathin mobile devices; a new approach that lets huge robot swarms self-assemble into complex shapes; scientists using visible light for car-to-car communications; NATO preparing to approve a mutual cyberattack defense pact; systems that secretly track cell phone owners´ movements becoming increasingly popular; NASA developing tumbling robotic cubes for exploring asteroids; ransomware being found on Android phones for the first time; researchers naming the most hackable cars; and a list of US colleges providing computer-science graduates with the greatest earning potential.

Keywords

AB Acquisition; Android phones; Apple; Brian Krebs; Broadwell; Charlie Miller; Chris Valasek; ColdBrother; Community Health Systems; Core M; Defentek; Facebook; Google; Harvard University; Home Depot; IEEE 802.22; Intel; International Mobile Subscriber Identity catchers; JPMorgan Chase; Jennifer Lawrence; Kate Upton; Microsoft; NASA; NATO; North Atlantic Council; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; PayScale; ScareMeNot; ScarePackage; SkyLock; StingRay; SuperValu; VLC; WhiteSpace Alliance; Wi-FAR; asteroids; car-to-car communications; cybercrime; fanless chip; hackable vehicles; iCloud; mobile processor; mutual cyberattack defense pact; privacy; ransomware; robot; security; self assemble; track cell phones; tumbling robotic cubes; visible light communications; wireless;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2014.293

Filename

6926732