Wi-Fi's long goodbye: Crosstalk

POSTER: Android + Open Wi-Fis = Broken SSL?

In previous work [1] we demonstrated severe problems with the way Android applications use SSL. We performed an in-depth study of 13,500 Android apps and discovered that a large number of apps did not use SSL correctly and thus, were vulnerable to Man-In-The-Middle attacks. To make these threats a reality, an attacker needs to execute an active man-in-the-middle attack (MITMA). While MITMAs are...

Alzheimer's disease--the long goodbye.

Alzheimer's disease affects one in 10 families in the United States; unless an intervention is found, millions more will be afflicted. Research is beginning to unveil the way the disease works and what causes it, leading to a glimmer of hope for future treatments. But understanding must come first.

A hopefully not too long goodbye.

During my time as Editor in Chief, I have tried to maintain some of the core features of manuscripts published by The Plant Cell, yet change some things for the better. I have held firm to “The Plant Cell brand” of manuscript as a trademark for the journal and resisted some very strong pressure to feature short, of-the-moment articles that lack the supporting evidence of longer articles. My rea...

Goodbye suxamethonium!

No drugs in anaesthesia are more problematic than suxamethonium. Yet, no drugs have survived as suxamethonium does in spite of crisis after crisis, and attempt after attempt at its replacement. For decades, suxamethonium has taught us neuromuscular pharmacology and provided us with an encyclopaedia of side effects, while benefiting millions and millions of our anaesthetised patients. With the a...

Goodbye to ABCD resuscitation?