Providing technology users with more guidance in the creation of passwords can significantly improve upon account security as indicated by a recent study led by the University of Plymouth. As end users continue to be the weakest link leading to breaches…

A recent malware attack that disrupted the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics highlights the difficulty of tracking and identifying the perpetrators behind an attack. The malware called the “Olympic Destroyer” contained code deriving from other…

Twenty-six experts from different organizations and disciplines collaborated on a report in which they emphasize the potential misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) by malicious actors to launch new highly-sophisticated cyberattacks. The report…

The FTC warned users of the security and privacy issues discovered to be surrounding VPN apps. A study conducted by the FTC in which 300 VPN apps were examined, revealed that many of the apps lacked encryption and made requests for sensitive…

SoS Musings #11 What’s the Buzz in Academic Research?

The Ponemon Institute conducted the 2018 Global Megatrends in Cybersecurity survey to which 1,100 senior-level IT and IT security global practitioners responded. Although the sophistication and hostility of cyber threats continues to grow, cybersecurity…

 

Cyber Scene #18 Thinking Globally Tech Olympiad: Higher, Faster and Perhaps Lower Poles (and others) in the Tent

Researchers at FortiGuard Labs have discovered a new variant of the Mirai botnet. In addition to having DDoS attack capabilities, the botnet called OMG has also been discovered by researchers to be turning vulnerable IoT devices into proxy servers for…

FireEye released details pertaining to a North Korean hacking group dubbed APT37. According to security researchers, APT37 has mostly launched attacks on South Korean targets through the use of a wide range of penetration techniques and custom-written…

A new system called Veil was presented by researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Harvard University, which improves upon private browsing. Although web browsers in private-browsing mode temporarily…

Computer security experts at Johns Hopkins University have developed new software for controlling an electric power grid called Spire. Spire allows an electric power grid to continue operating even in the event that part of the control system is…