BS, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, Mathematics and Computing MS, University of California, Santa Barbara, Computer Science PhD, University of California, Irvine, Information ...

Computer security researchers put themselves into the minds of cybercriminals to figure out what they might do next. Nitesh Saxena, Ph.D., takes a different approach. His mission is to get inside the ...

Researchers at UAB believe brainwave-sensing headsets need better security after they conducted a study revealing that hackers could guess a user's passwords through the device. The ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- Hackers can use brainwave-sensing headsets, used in toys and video games, to steal your passwords, a new study suggests. The so called EEG headsets are advertised as letting users ...

As an extra layer of security, several online services have adopted push notification-based two-factor authentication systems, whereby users must approve login attempts through a mobile device. In ...

Researchers funded by the National Science Foundation have developed a method to secure retail transactions using small samples of audio to authenticate devices equipped with Near-Field Communication ...

Epoc+ is an $800 headset made by Emotiv that uses your brain's EEG signals to control gadgets or computers. Now, a new study from Nitesh Saxena, an associate professor at the University of Alabama, ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham has received $150,000 from networking equipment giant Cisco Systems for a two-year project to find ways to secure online voice and video tools like Skype and ...

Headsets that monitor your brainwaves could allow hackers to empty your bank account, scientists fear. High-tech helmets called electroencephalograms or EEGs are often used to diagnose epilepsy, but ...