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"Transparent Labeling of Training Data May Boost Trust in Artificial Intelligence"According to researchers at Pennsylvania State University, showing users that visual data input into Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems was correctly labeled could increase people's trust in AI. The team added that the findings could pave the way for…
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"Counting Photons for Quantum Computing"Engineers at Jefferson Lab contributed to the design and construction of a photon detection system that is essential to photonics-based quantum computing and unbreakable encryption. Nuclear physicists and quantum information experts have demonstrated the…
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"Google Bans 173,000 Bad Developers in 2022"Google recently claimed that it is making it harder for malicious developers to get their software published on its Play Store while removing large volumes of bad accounts. Google has revealed that it removed 173,000 bad accounts in 2022 and raised…
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"Man Gets Four Years for Stealing Bitcoins Seized by Feds"An Ohio man has recently been sentenced to four years and three months behind bars after stealing 712 bitcoin ($21m), which were seized by investigators following the arrest of his brother. According to the Department of Justice (DoJ), Gary James…
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"Ukrainian Man Arrested for Selling Data on 300 Million People to Russians"A 36-year-old Ukrainian citizen was recently arrested for allegedly selling personal information belonging to over 300 million people to Russia, according to a statement from the Ukrainian cyber police. The individual used the messaging platform Telegram…
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"FDA, CISA Advise on Genomic Device Software Vulnerabilities"A software patch has been made available to prevent cybersecurity threats to patient care, genomic data, and provider networks posed by software vulnerabilities in benchtop and production-scale genomic sequencing instruments manufactured by Illumina.…
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"ViperSoftX InfoStealer Adopts Sophisticated Techniques to Avoid Detection"Many consumers and businesses in Australia, Japan, the US, and India have been infected with the evasive information-stealing malware ViperSoftX. ViperSoftX was first discovered in 2020, and in November 2022, the cybersecurity company Avast described a…
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"Android Minecraft Clones With 35M Downloads Infect Users With Adware"A collection of 38 Minecraft clones on Google Play infected devices with the Android adware HiddenAds in order to secretly load advertisements in the background to generate revenue for the operators. Numerous game publishers have attempted to replicate…
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"Phishing-Resistant MFA Shapes the Future of Authentication Forms"According to Yubico, organizations have continued to rely on the least secure forms of authentication, such as traditional usernames and passwords and one-time passwords (OTPs), over the past two years, based on a survey of over 500 Information…
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"Malware-Free Cyberattacks Are on the Rise; Here's How to Detect Them"According to George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike, and Michael Sentonas, president of the company, 71 percent of enterprise cyberattacks in 2022 were conducted without malware. At this year's RSA Conference, Kurtz and Sentonas walked the audience through a…
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Pub Crawl #73Pub Crawl summarizes, by hard problems, sets of publications that have been peer reviewed and presented at SoS conferences or referenced in current work. The topics are chosen for their usefulness for current researchers.
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"Johns Hopkins APL's Out-of-Band Communications Technology Receives Boost From Department of Homeland Security"Out-of-Band over Existing Communication (OBEC) is a novel communications technology developed at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to provide secure access to networks experiencing disruptions or cyberattacks. APL is one of…