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  • "Creating a National Network of Cybersecurity Institutes"
    The Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI) has been awarded $2 million by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). CIRI is one of…
  • "Election Day Was Hack Free, but Cybersecurity Officials Are Still Bracing for Attacks"
    Officials from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) revealed that no cyberattacks were detected on Election Day. According to officials from CISA and the NSA, cyberattack attempts were…
  • "Ransomware Alert as Emotet Detections Surge 1200%"
    Researchers at HP Inc. have discovered attacks using the Emotet Trojan soared by over 1200 percent from Q2 to Q3 of this year.  Emotet is often used as a loader, providing access to third-party threat groups to deploy secondary TrickBot and QakBot…
  • HotSoS 2020 Summary Report
      Hot Topics in the Science of Security (HotSoS) 2020
  • "Cyber-Criminals Target Zoom Users"
    The Bitdefender Antispam Antispam Lab has detected a new cyber-extortion campaign targeting those using the video-conferencing Zoom while undressed. A quarter of a million people have received an email claiming to have footage of them in compromising…
  • "60% of Organizations Have Accelerated Their Zero Trust Projects"
    Researchers at Pulse Secure surveyed more than 250 technology professionals and found that the coronavirus pandemic did not impact the adoption of zero trust technology globally.  They found that 60 percent of organizations accelerated zero trust…
  • "U.S. Says Iranian Hackers Accessed Voter Information"
    According to an alert issued by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), an Iranian threat actor has accessed voter registration data. This alert follows another warning released by…
  • Science of Security’s Annual Security Conference Goes Virtual and Gets Record Attendance
    https://www.nsa.gov/News-Features/Feature-Stories/Article-View/Article/2396500/science-of-securitys-annual-security-conference-goes-virtual-and-gets-record-at/fbclid/IwAR2jDU1hyqnM2qft1704FqNIoUBo15-l_tBveC451NCp3-7__zABQP2f-w8/ Photo of Adam Tagert…
  • "CERT/CC Launches Twitter Bot to Give Security Bugs Random Names"
    The Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC) at the Carnegie Mellon University launched a Twitter bot named Vulnonym to assign random names to security bugs that receive a CVE identifier. The idea is to give neural names to security…
  • "An Attacker Can Steal Sensitive User Data Over the Phone Using Smart Speakers"
    The use of Siri, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and other voice assistants continues to grow in popularity worldwide. These Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents have been adopted by many to help perform tasks in their everyday lives, such as searching…
  • "Breaches Down 51%, Exposed Records Set New Record With 36 billion So Far"
    Researchers at Risk Based Security have found that there were 2,935 publicly reported breaches in the first three quarters of 2020, meaning breaches are down 51 percent from the year before.  However, the number of records exposed since last year…
  • "New Tool Simplifies Data Sharing, Preserves Privacy"
    A new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon and IBM introduces a new tool to help maintain the privacy of data shared among companies, organizations, and government. The team of researchers developed a new tool called DoppelGANger that synthesizes new…