The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Technical Committee on Cybersecurity has revealed a new standard, titled ETSI EN 303 645, for the Internet of Things (IoT). It was developed through collaboration with members from academia,…

US Cyber Command is warning that foreign state-sponsored hacking groups will likely try to exploit a significant security bug disclosed today in PAN-OS.  PAN-OS is the operating system running on firewalls and enterprise VPN appliances from Palo…

SoS Musings #38 - Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

Researchers at Snyk have discovered that new vulnerabilities in open source packages are down 20 percent compared to last year, suggesting that the security of open source containers and packages are heading in a positive direction.  Cross-site…

Cyber Scene #45 - Cyber Offense and Defense: The U.S. Election 3D Chessboard

Cybersecurity Snapshots #7 - Is Online Voting a Good Idea?  

Spotlight on Lablet Research #7 - Project: Foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems Resilience 

​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 at IntSight have discovered that cybercriminals are increasingly using IM platforms like Telegram, Discord, Jabber, WhatsApp, IRC, and others to advertise and sell their goods and services.  The researchers believe that the reason why…

Cybersecurity research software developed by Sandia National Laboratories, called minimega, can now be accessed by faculty and students at Purdue University. This is the first time Sandia has partnered with an academic community to make its software…

Sony has announced the launch of a bug bounty program aimed at finding vulnerabilities in the PlayStation 4 (PS4) gaming console and the PlayStation Network. The company has partnered with HackerOne to help run the program. The security community, gamers…

Researchers at Cornell Tech conducted a study to explore whether the types of websites people are visiting affect how third-party trackers follow them around the internet. The study found that Internet trackers are more likely to follow those who visit…