Three faculty members from UC San Diego's Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) are some of the first academic researchers worldwide to receive Google's Trust and Safety Research Award.

Mastodon, the free and open-source decentralized social networking platform, has recently fixed a critical vulnerability that allows attackers to impersonate and take over any remote account.

Law enforcement in 50 countries recently arrested 31 individuals in a global operation targeting ransomware, banking malware, and phishing.

Two new regulatory filings have revealed the surging costs associated with ransomware and other cyber-related incidents.

Escape's security research team conducted a scan of 189.5 million URLs and discovered the exposure of over 18,000 Application Programming Interface (API) secrets.

Resecurity identified malicious actors selling a large number of AnyDesk customer credentials on the dark web. This credential leak is suspected to be the result of infostealer infections.

There has been little research on how to run a password update campaign efficiently and with minimal Information Technology (IT) costs.

Gartner analysts predict that deepfakes, which are Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated replicas of a person's likeness, will lower confidence in face biometric authentication solutions for 30 percent of companies by 2026.

Hydropower, one of the oldest forms of energy generation in the US, makes up 6 percent of the country's electricity supply.

The U.S. Treasury Department recently announced sanctions against a half dozen Iranian government officials for their role in targeting devices at a Pennsylvania water utility in November 2023.

According to Gcore, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack trends for the second half of 2023 reveal alarming increases in scale and sophistication. The maximum attack power increased from 800 Gbps to 1.6 Tbps.

From April 2022 to November 2023, the Russian state-sponsored hacking group APT28 conducted NT LAN Manager (NTLM) v2 hash relay attacks using various methods, focusing on high-value targets worldwide.