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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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UK’s top student hackers compete for cyber security

22 Apr 2016

Students from the UK’s top cyber security universities will compete in Cambridge this weekend, in part to address the country’s looming cyber...

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Laser technique promises super-fast and super-secure quantum cryptography

04 Apr 2016

A new method of implementing an ‘unbreakable’ quantum cryptographic system is able to transmit information at rates more than ten times faster than...

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Smartphone rituals

Opinion: FBI backs off from its day in court with Apple this time – but there will be others

30 Mar 2016

Martin Kleppmann (Computer Laboratory) discusses how vulnerable security technologies really are, and how these vulnerabilities could be exploited by...

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Cambridge named Academic Centre of Excellence in Cybersecurity Research

13 Jun 2013

Cambridge formally recognised as centre of excellence for cybsersecurity research.

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