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New Fuzzing Tool Detects Vulnerabilities in USB Driver Stacks

By John / 15 June 2020

Mathias Payer and Hui Peng have developed a USB software security tool called USBFuzz. The researchers plan to release USBFuzz on GitHub as an open source project following their presentation at Usenix.

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EPFL Field-tests Contact Tracing App

By John / 9 June 2020

As the name implies, the international Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing project (DP3T) focuses on data privacy and negates any chance of data being misused by hackers.

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Survey Reveals Importance of the Messenger in COVID-19 Communication

By John / 1 June 2020

The research paper “Who is listening? Spokesperson Effect on Communicating Social and Physical Distancing Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic” is authored by Andreas Spitz and Ahmad Abu-Akel (Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne) and Robert West (School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL).