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"University of Alabama's Low-Cost Solution Could Help Spot Hacked GPS in Self-Driving Cars"Transportation researchers at the University of Alabama (UA) have developed a low-cost system to overcome one of those challenges faced by self-driving vehicles, which is GPS hacking. Such hacking can send a self-driving vehicle to the wrong destination…
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"More Security for Decentralized Blockchain"The European Research Council (ERC) is funding a project at the Technical University of Darmstadt to improve decentralized blockchain technologies. Sebastian Faust's "CRYPTOLAYER - Cryptography for Second Layer Blockchain Protocols" project has been…
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"Reversible Transactions Could Mitigate Crypto Theft — Researchers"Researchers at Stanford University have developed a prototype for "reversible transactions" on Ethereum, proposing it as a possible solution to reduce the impact of cryptocurrency theft. Stanford University blockchain researcher Kaili Wang shared an…
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"GAO Finds OT and IT Cybersecurity Gaps at Nuclear Security Agency"According to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) study, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and its contractors have not fully implemented foundational cybersecurity risk practices in their traditional IT environment. Current US…
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"90% Of Orgs Believe Cybersecurity Risk Isn't Being Addressed"According to Foundry's 2022 Security Priorities Study, about 90 percent of security leaders believe their organization is failing to address cybersecurity risks. Those surveyed faced these pitfalls due to various issues, including convincing the severity…
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"Hackers Use NullMixer and SEO to Spread Malware More Efficiently"Security researchers at Kaspersky have spotted a new series of campaigns focusing on the malware tool they named NullMixer. According to the researchers, NullMixer spreads malware via malicious websites that can be easily found via popular search…
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"Legacy Technology Undermines Ransomware Response"According to a new Censuswide survey commissioned by Cohesity, nearly half of respondents rely on outdated, legacy backup and recovery infrastructure to manage and protect their data. Of the respondents, 46 percent rely on primary backup and recovery…
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"Breached American Airlines Email Accounts Abused for Phishing"American Airlines recently discovered it was breached after receiving reports of employee email accounts being used in phishing attacks. Last week, the airline started informing some of its customers that their personal data was likely compromised…
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"US Duo Plead Guilty to $30m Forex Fraud Scheme"Two US men have recently pleaded guilty to defrauding online investors out of tens of millions of dollars in a foreign exchange (forex) scheme dating back a decade. Patrick Gallagher, 44, of Middleborough, Massachusetts, and Michael Dion, 49, of…
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"Phishing Attacks Skyrocketing, Over 1 million Observed"Security researchers at APWG in the second quarter of 2022 observed 1,097,811 total phishing attacks, the worst quarter for phishing that APWG has ever observed. The total for June was 381,717 attacks or phishing sites. The researchers noted…
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"Hackers Deploy Malicious OAuth Apps to Compromise Email Servers, Spread Spam"Security researchers at Microsoft have found that threat actors are deploying OAuth applications on compromised cloud tenants and then using them to control Exchange servers and spread spam. The researchers, during an investigation, found that the…
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"Teen Arrested in UK, Reportedly in Connection With Rockstar Games Hack"According to the City of London Police, London cops, assisted by the UK's National Cyber Crime Unit, arrested a 17-year-old living in Oxfordshire suspected to have been behind the Rockstar Games hack that leaked pre-release footage from the…