A cyber-attack does not always need to steal data or shut systems down to cause damage. Sometimes it only needs to shift the clock. Researchers at the University of East London (UEL), in collaboration with industry, have identified a critical weakness in the timing systems that keep modern automated industries running - and warn attackers could exploit it to quietly destabilise factories, robotics and other safety‑critical infrastructure. The work is published as a comprehensive analysis of threats to Time‑Triggered Ethernet (TTEthernet) clock synchronisation in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

A research team at the University of Cologne has developed an artificial DNA base pair that works according to a new chemical principle. In contrast to natural bases, the novel artificial base pairs use halogen bonds that are enzymatically incorporated into DNA / publication in the ‘Journal of the American Chemical Society’