Topic description and stories

Price of a bot army revealed across hundreds of online platforms

11 Dec 2025

The first global index tracking real-time prices for buying fake account verifications on 500+ online platforms in every country has been launched by...

Read more
Woman drawing on a tablet with art tools nearby

AI art protection tools still leave creators at risk, researchers say

24 Jun 2025

Artists urgently need stronger defences to protect their work from being used to train AI models without their consent.

Read more
Illustration of a whistleblower in crowd

Whistleblowing tech based on Cambridge research launched by the Guardian

09 Jun 2025

Whistleblowers can contact journalists more securely thanks to a new confidential and anonymous messaging technology co-developed by University of...

Read more

Digital abstract background

Researchers demonstrate the UK’s first long-distance ultra-secure communication over a quantum network

08 Apr 2025

Researchers have successfully demonstrated the UK’s first long-distance ultra-secure transfer of data over a quantum communications network...

Read more

Building business partnerships in AI, quantum, cybersecurity and computer architecture

18 Sep 2024

Hear from four of our leading researchers on their work and why partnering with industry is key to their success.

Read more

Architecting the future

08 Dec 2020

Arm is working with Cambridge researchers to make our phones and computers more secure, more efficient and ready for the digital revolution.

Read more

Someone programming a website in HTML

Honour among thieves: the study of a cybercrime marketplace in action

06 Nov 2020

Researchers at the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre have revealed what they’ve learned from analysing hundreds of thousands of illicit trades that took...

Read more
Close-up of a laptop's keyboard

Lockdown 'helps fuel rise in cybercrime'

03 Jun 2020

Take extra care before buying face masks or testing kits online, or responding to texts apparently sent to you by the UK Government or the NHS...

Read more
Eyeglasses

Prevention better than cure at keeping young users from getting involved in cybercrime

21 Oct 2019

Highly-targeted messaging campaigns from law enforcement can be surprisingly effective at dissuading young gamers from getting involved in cybercrime...

Read more

Macbook pro with dongle

Most laptops vulnerable to attack via peripheral devices, say researchers

26 Feb 2019

Many modern laptops and an increasing number of desktop computers are much more vulnerable to hacking through common plug-in devices than previously...

Read more

UK's best cyber defenders battle for chance to compete with best of the USA

27 Mar 2018

More than 130 students representing 18 of the UK’s top cybersecurity universities battled it out at the Inter-ACE 2018 cybersecurity challenge...

Read more
Inter-ACE Cyber Challenge 2017

Cambridge to host transatlantic cyber security competition

20 Jul 2017

A major cyber security challenge, aimed at educating and inspiring the next generation of cyber defenders from across the UK and US, will be held at...

Read more

Pages