Study to examine stalking impact
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The experiences of stalking victims are examined in a major new study carried out by a research team.
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The Kuykendall family in Fircrest, Wash., claims that a hacker has been stalking them for four months through their camera phones, using the microphones in the phones to listen to them and the cameras to watch. They say that even when they turn off the phones, the hacker can turn them back on.
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The National Children&#39;s Study will track 100,000 children from before birth to the age of 21. Data will be collected to determine how factors such as immunizations, watching television, the environment, prenatal
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Recent research is providing new insight into experiences more often left to paranormal explanations.
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Could terrorists be plotting their next move online, obscured by the 'noise' of chat-room chatter? The U.S. government thinks that may be the case and is funding a yearlong study on chat-room surveillance.
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Techniques designed to make suspects incriminate themselves through calls or texts
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The typical online sexual predator is  not someone posing as a teen to lure unsuspecting victims into  face-to-face meetings that result in violent rapes, U.S.  researchers said on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Some patterns and locations of  bruising are suggestive of abuse and warrant further  investigation, researchers in Wales report.
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Researchers discover in a recent study on cyber-bullying that there may be negative consequences for users in both Second Life and the real world.
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Research displayed on new security techniques, search advances, more.
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By David Gambacorta, Philadelphia Daily News  Jun. 13--Research has taught the Child Predator Unit this much: One in five girls and one in five boys will be sexually propositioned online during their early adolescence.
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NEW YORK  - A new study provides strong evidence that being bullied can cause children to develop depression and anxiety.
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A team of researchers is using the Facebook habits of students to study how personal tastes, habits and values affect the formation of social relationships.
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(InfoWorld) - Researchers in the U.S. say they've successfully shown how attackers could compromise a network designed to make itÂ harder to trace Internet surfersÂ and the Web sites they are viewing. The researchers, from the University of Colorado in Boulder, focused their efforts on The Onion Router (Tor) network. Tor software enables the creation of networks of servers that can send traffic over many different routes, masking its original source. The network offers users a greater degree of anonymity, since Web sites record the IP (Internet protocol) address of visiting machine, which could be linked to an individual user. Tor's creators say they were aware of the research, but using the network is still effective. The researchers, who consulted Tor project officials during their work, wrote on their Web site that they still feel it's the "most secure and usable privacy-enhancing system available." But the paper outlines the privacy concerns that could arise from using the techniques. "For example, law enforcement officers might use our techniques to cheaply and realistically track online predators," according to the paper. "The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and other organizations might use our techniques to link Web or torrent requests to their corresponding requesters." For the experiment, the researchers constructed their own isolated Tor network using 66 servers. They placed malicious servers within the network that were designed to draw a substantial portion of routing requests by misrepresenting their bandwidth capability. Then the researchers used an algorithm to link the "path" of a Web site request. More than 46 percent of the time, the paths could be calculated, revealing the source of the traffic, the paper said. But several attacks against Tor have been developed, wrote Shava Nerad, Tor's executive director, on the project's blog. "We have never seen such an attack 'in the wild,' and we think it no more likely that this paper would make such an attack easier or more likely than it was a few years ago when another version of it was documented," Nerad wrote. The Tor platform has been incorporated into applications such as Torpark, a browser based on Firefox that causes a computer's IP address to appear to regularly change. Â
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A new study is tracking coyotes in suburbs of New York City, where reports of encounters with pets and children are on the rise.
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InfoWorld - Researchers in the U.S. say they&#39;ve successfully shown how attackers could compromise a network designed to make it&#160;harder to trace Internet surfers&#160;and the Web sites they are viewing.
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Stimulating a certain area of the brain   can produce a creepy feeling that someone is watching you when   no one is, scientists said on Wednesday.