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"New Technique to Prevent Medical Imaging Cyberthreats"Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev developed a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) technique to improve the protection of medical devices against unusual or anomalous instructions, as well as human and system errors. If medical devices such…
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"Researchers Develop New Detection Method to Protect Army Networks"U.S. Army researchers developed a method to protect networks by detecting adversarial activities that current analytical methods may miss. They developed an algorithm for higher-order network representation, called BuildHON+. The goal behind this…
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"Lazarus Group Targets Cryptocurrency Firms Via LinkedIn Messages"New research has discovered that the Lazarus Group, a North Korean-linked APT, has shifted its focus to targeting cryptocurrency and financial organizations. The security researchers discovered a phishing campaign that is targeting businesses…
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"AI Designed To Hunt Out Cryptocurrency Hackers"Computer scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory developed a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) system capable of identifying malicious code that hijacks supercomputers to perform cryptocurrency mining. Supercomputers are attractive…
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SoS Musings #40 - The Need for Stronger Social Media SecuritySoS Musings #40 - The Need for Stronger Social Media Security
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"University of Utah Pays $457K After Ransomware Attack"The University of Utah, which has 24,485 undergraduate students, 8,333 graduate students, and 1,592 faculty members, was hit by a cyberattack on July 19th. The adversaries used ransomware and targeted the university’s computing servers for its College of…
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Cyber Scene #47 - Thunderbolts: Cybersecurity-charged ElectionsCyber Scene #47 - Thunderbolts: Cybersecurity-charged Elections
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Cybersecurity Snapshots #9 - Organizations Need to Address Mobile SecurityCybersecurity Snapshots #9 - Organizations Need to Address Mobile Security
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Spotlight on Lablet Research #9 - Coordinated Machine Learning-Based Vulnerability and Security Patching for Resilient Virtual Computing InfrastructureSpotlight on Lablet Research #9 - Coordinated Machine Learning-Based Vulnerability and Security Patching for Resilient Virtual Computing Infrastructure
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Pub Crawl #41Pub 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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"Researchers Sound Alarm Over Malicious AWS Community AMIs"Security researchers at Mitiga have discovered that threat actors can easily build malware-laced Community Amazon Machine Images (AMI) and make them available to unsuspecting AWS customers. The researchers released details of a malicious AMI …