Cybersecurity: how safe are we online?
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How is data sent safely online, and how can we keep prying eyes away? This week we investigate the basis of cybersecurity, ask if chip and pin is safe and talk to a team of hackers who attempt to penetrate websites legitimately. We also reveal the dangers of wifi as we find out what your mobile phone is revealing about you. Plus the genetic basis of movement, a new form of flexible battery and, in our Question of the Week, how one telephone line can have multiple uses!
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Our lives are increasingly moving online, which means that more and more of our personal and financial information is being stored in cyberspace. But just how secure is our data? Ross Anderson explains...
Credit and debit cards now almost universally use chip and PIN technology, to enable consumers to make secure purchases. But how does it work and exactly how secure is it?
Will quantum security change online security?
What is the future of passwords?
Cable-like batteries which can be tied into a knot have been developed in Korea...
Soil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance genes that are making many infections hard to treat, researchers have shown this week...
Smartphone usage has grown in recent years, as has the amount of information we keep on them. A new system has been developed that can secretly track smartphones and even find out where their owners live.
The urban heat island effect sees artificial surfaces in built up areas acting as storage heaters - making cities warmer than the surrounding rural landscape. A new project to create the densest urban sensor network in Birmingham hopes to map temperature changes across the city...
Is it possible to be ethical yet hack into a company's website and online data? Apparently it can be, when the company asks you to, as Stuart Coulson explains...
Do hackers leave a trail?
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Are mac's infected in the same way as PC's?
Why do US banks not use chip and pin?
How can we get around key tracking?
Is it possible to look at all emails going in and out of a country?
Hi Chris &Co
Love the podcast.
I have one telephone line, ie 2 twisted wires, into my home, as most people have around here.
How is it possble for me to have:
--a telephone conversation
--a download to the main computer
--a download to another computer (WiFi)
--my ...
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