Independent researchers have discovered that link previews in popular chat apps on iOS and Android are a firehose of security and privacy issues.   Facebook Messenger, LINE, Slack, Twitter Direct Messages, Zoom, and many others are at risk. In the…

Details about a novel control architecture that defends complex, interconnected systems from cyberattacks have been published in the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. Researchers from Italy and Canada developed a method to mitigate damaging…

Cyber Scene #49 - Major League Strikes: Election Replays

Internet-of-things (IoT) devices have become a favorite target for cybercriminals this year.  New research has shown that there has been a sharp increase (100 percent) in IoT infections observed on wireless networks.  IoT devices are now…

SoS Musings #42 - Medical Device Vulnerabilities: Healthcare is at Risk

Cybersecurity Snapshots #11 - Are Security Cameras Vulnerable to Cyberattacks?  

Spotlight on Lablet Research #11 - Cloud-Assisted IoT Systems Privacy   Lablet: University of Kansas

The Science of Security and Privacy 2019 Annual Report is now available. This report highlights the progress and accomplishments of the Science of Security and Privacy initiative.  

SCRM: The Need for More Research

​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.

 Queens of Code Career Day:  Nov 12, 2020 11:00-12:00 PM EST

KashmirBlack is a botnet focused on cryptocurrency mining, spamming, and defacement targeting popular content management systems (CMSes) such as WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. According to researchers from the online security company Imperva, the botnet…