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  • HoTSoS 2021: Social Media Chair
    Meet the HoTSoS 2021 Team: Social Media Chair HoTSoS is just around the corner again, and introductions to the 2021 Program Committee are in order. First up on the docket is John Symons (KU)! John will be serving as our Social Media Chair and we…
  • "Google Researcher Demonstrates iPhone Exploit With Wi-Fi Takeover"
    A security researcher with Google's Project Zero discovered a vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to take over a person's iPhone without having to trick victims into clicking any malicious links or downloading malware. The exploitation of this…
  • HoTSoS 2021: Works-in-Progress Co-Chairs
    Meet the HoTSoS 2021 Team: Works-in-Progress Co-Chairs Kurt Kelville (MIT) and Aron Laszka (University of Houston) are our Works-in-Progress Co-Chairs for the 2021 Symposium. Happy to have these two on the Program Committee Team! About the…
  • "Malicious NPM Packages Used to Install njRAT Remote Access Trojan"
    The open-source security firm Sonatype found malicious NPM packages that install the njRAT remote access trojan. NPM, short for Node Package Manager, is a packet manager for the JavaScript programming language. Using njRAT, a threat actor can get full…
  • "Driven by Ransomware, Cyber Claims Rise in Number & Value"
    The insurance company Allianz recently released a report highlighting cyberattacks and security incidents as the top business risk for companies and the rise in cyber insurance claims. According to the firm's "Trend in Cyber Risk" report, the number of…
  • "Electronic Medical Records Cracked Open by OpenClinic Bugs"
    Researchers at Bishop Fox have discovered four vulnerabilities in the OpenClinic application used for sharing electronic medical records.  Its latest version is 0.8.2 and was released in 2016.  According to researchers, the four bugs involve…
  • HoTSoS 2021: Poster Co-Chairs
    Meet the HoTSoS 2021 Team: Poster Co-Chairs Welcome our "Poster Co-Chairs" for the upcoming HoTSoS Symposium Khir Henderson (Morgan State University) and Aleecia McDonald (CMU)! About the Chairs
  • "Cyber-Attack Exposes Data of 295,000 Colorado Springs Patients"
    AspenPointe, a nonprofit mental health and behavioral health services provider based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, experienced a cyberattack in September 2020 that resulted in the exposure of protected health information (PHI) on more than 295,000…
  • HoTSoS 2021: Undergraduate Co-Chairs
    Meet the HoTSoS 2021 Team: Undergraduate Co-Chairs This year HoTSoS has re-vamped the Program Committee to include several new chair positions. One such inclusion is the "Undergraduate Chair" position for which Divya Amirtharaj (Harvard…
  • HoTSoS 2021: Student Presentation Co-Chairs
    Meet the HoTSoS 2021 Team: Student Presentation Co-Chairs The HoTSoS Program Committee is happy to have a newly created "Student Presentation Chair" position, and even happier to have Julie Haney (NIST) and Hanan Hibshi (CMU) co-serving! About the…
  • "Magecart Attack Convincingly Hijacks PayPal Transactions at Checkout"
    Researchers have recently discovered that the Magecart gang has come up with a new credit-card skimming technique for hijacking PayPal transactions during checkout just in time for the Christmas holiday shopping season. The technique uses postMessage to…
  • "MacOS Backdoor Appears to Be Update of Tool Previously Used by Vietnam-Linked Group"
    According to Trend Micro researchers, the hacking group dubbed APT32 or OceanLotus appears to be using an updated version of a tool that can infiltrate macOS computers. The malicious software comes as a .zip file that uses a Microsoft Word Icon. It is…