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  • "Feds Warn of Ransomware Attacks Ahead of Labor Day"
    The FBI and CISA put out a joint cybersecurity advisory (PDF) Tuesday, noting that ransomware actors often ambush organizations on holidays and weekends when offices are typically closed, making the upcoming three-day weekend a prime opportunity for…
  • "Cybercriminal Sells Tool to Hide Malware in AMD, NVIDIA GPUs"
    Cybercriminals are continuing to make progress with attacks involving malware that can execute code from a compromised system's graphics processing unit (GPU). This method is not new as demo code has been published previously. However, projects on this…
  • Check into Careers with the Intelligence Community (IC)!
    A career with the Intelligence Community (IC) can be enormously rewarding. It also demands the very best of the workforce. To meet the requirements, you must be highly competent in your field. You must also be highly reliable and trusted to safeguard…
  • "Baby Monitor Vulnerable to Attack via Newly Found Bugs"
    Researchers at Bitdefender have discovered security holes in the Victure IPC360 Camera use in a popular baby monitor model. The exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow outside attackers to access the camera feed or disable the encryption of…
  • "Ransomware Attacks Soar 288% in First Half of 2021"
    Researchers from the NCC Group have found that the number of ransomware attacks surged by 288% between the first and second quarters of 2021 as double extortion attempts grew.  The researchers claimed that nearly a quarter (22%) of data leaks came…
  • "Can a Piece of Sticky Tape Stop Computer Hackers in Their Tracks?"
    Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) have joined the fight against online hackers with a new technology that leaps toward …
  • "Illinois Physicians Notify 600K Patients of Data Breach"
    The largest independent group of physicians in Illinois is notifying 600,000 patients that their personal information may have been exposed.  DuPage Medical Group (DMG) said that patient data could have been compromised when its computer network was…
  • "Ransomware May Have Cost US Schools Over $6bn in 2020"
    Scores of ransomware attacks on US schools and colleges last year may have cost them over $6bn, according to a new report published by researchers at Comparitech.  The researchers analyzed the 77 attacks reported by educational institutions…
  • "Bangkok Airways Apologizes for Passport Info Breach as LockBit Ransomware Group Threatens Data Leak"
    Bangkok Airways issued a statement to its customers apologizing for a data breach involving their passport information and other personal data. According to the company, the cybersecurity incident occurred because of unauthorized and unlawful access to…
  • "Tech Companies Pledge Billions for Critical Infrastructure Security Upgrades, Training"
    President Joe Biden recently met with leaders of larger technology companies and platform providers to discuss options for addressing security threats and technical debt facing the U.S. The meeting resulted in Google, Microsoft, IBM, and other companies…
  • Pub Crawl #53
    ​Pub 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.
  • "Researchers Develop Hardware-Cybersecurity Education Program With $400,000 NSF Grant"
    Many commonly reported cyberattacks, such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, focus on software vulnerabilities. With the growing risks of corporate or state espionage via hardware, such as the hiding of malicious Trojan circuits on a…