RefBan

Referral Banners

Yashi

Friday, August 22, 2014

ScienceDaily: Computers and Internet News

ScienceDaily: Computers and Internet News


Does your computer know how you're feeling?

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 06:05 AM PDT

Researchers have designed a computer program that can accurately recognize users' emotional states as much as 87% of the time, depending on the emotion. The study combined -- for the first time -- two established ways of detecting user emotions: keystroke dynamics and text-pattern analysis.

For secure software: X-rays instead of passport control

Posted: 21 Aug 2014 06:00 AM PDT

Trust is good, control is better. This also applies to the security of computer programs. Instead of trusting "identification documents" in the form of certificates, JOANA, the new software analysis tool, examines the source text (code) of a program. In this way, it detects leaks, via which secret information may get out or strangers may enter the system from outside. At the same time, JOANA reduces the number of false alarms to a minimum.

New framework would facilitate use of new Android security modules

Posted: 20 Aug 2014 06:17 AM PDT

Computer security researchers have developed a modification to the core Android operating system that allows developers and users to plug in new security enhancements. The new Android Security Modules framework aims to eliminate the bottleneck that prevents developers and users from taking advantage of new security tools.

No comments:

Yashi

Chitika