Shining a light on UEFI – the hidden memory space being exploited in attacks

Shining Light on Dark Address Space

In this report, we explore the degree to which commercial strategies, peering disputes, network failures, misconfiguration, and occasionally, malicious intent, lead to a partitioning of Internet topology. Specifically, we present a three-year study of the one-sided differences in Internet provider reachability. We focus on “dark address space”, or the range of topology accessible from one provi...

Shining a light on optogenetics

O ptogenetics is relatively new and has attracted much interest since the first publications from the field in the early 2000s. Both researchers and the media are fascinated by the notions it conjures of bionic implants. Notwithstanding potential applications, the technology has quickly become an important research tool in neuroscience with potential for developing a range of novel therapeutic ...

Shining a light on the Sunshine Act.

Shining light on motivation, emotion, and memory processes

Over the last 10 years, methods that combine genetics and optics have neuroscientists glowing about the possibilities to study movement, motivation, reinforcement, emotion and abnormal reward seeking processes such as addiction and obesity. From the fruit fly, rodents, to primates, optogenetics sheds light on the previously unanswered questions. With its specificity and high temporal precision,...

Shining a light on dark data.

1Chris Patil is at the Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, California, USA 2Vivian Siegel is at the Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA (e-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]) Increasing the publication of dark data will require us to acknowledge and alter the incentives for multiple agents of action: journals, c...