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  • "Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers"
    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) conducted an investigation of the Ring doorbell app for Android and found that it contains a number of third-party trackers that share customers' personally identifiable information (PII). According to EFF, there…
  • "Zoom Vulnerability Would Have Allowed Hackers to Eavesdrop on Calls"
    Check Point cybersecurity researchers recently released a report in which they discuss their discovery of vulnerabilities contained by the popular video conferencing platform, Zoom. According to the report, the exploitation of these vulnerabilities would…
  • "Researchers Introduce the First All-Optical, Stealth Data Encryption Technology"
    The first all-optical "stealth" encryption technology has been introduced by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's (BGU) technology-transfer company, BGN Technologies. The optical end-to-end solution will significantly improve upon the security and…
  • "UN Hacked: Attackers Got in Via SharePoint Vulnerability"
    The United Nations (UN) was affected by a breach in the summer of 2019 and was kept secret until now. The attack started in July 2019, when the adversaries were able to compromise a server located at the UN Office in Vienna through a security hole in…
  • "USC Kicks Off 50-State Election Cybersecurity Trainings"
    The University of Southern California (USC) is making an effort to bolster election cybersecurity through its nonpartisan and independent 50-state election cybersecurity training initiative. Training is provided in each state to participants via daylong…
  • "RiskSense Working on AI to Predict if Vulnerabilities Will Turn Into Ransomware"
    RiskSense recently announced an update to its subscription-based SaaS software, which will help companies better predict if their security vulnerabilities will be exploited by bad actors to target them in ransomware attacks. The update provides a…
  • "2020: A Year of Deepfakes and Deep Deception"
    In 2019 deepfakes became a major emerging cyber threat. Deepfakes is a machine learning model that can create realistic yet fake or manipulated audio and video. Researchers have mostly thought about Deepfake technology potentially being used to spread…
  • "Fake Factory Experiment Illustrates Attackers' Tactics"
    An experiment carried out by researchers at Trend Micro further demonstrates the increased interest that attackers have in targeting industrial control systems, as well as how skillful these attackers have become at executing attacks on such…
  • "LoRaWAN Encryption Keys Easy to Crack, Jeopardizing Security of IoT Networks"
    IOActive researchers discovered that LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Networking ), the widely adopted device protocol within the realms of the Internet of Things (IoT), contains serious security vulnerabilities. According to researchers, the exploitation…
  • "Hackers Hijack Social Media Accounts for the NFL and 15 teams"
    A Saudi hacker group named OurMine has hacked and defaced the social media accounts of the NFL and 15 of its teams. The accounts that got hacked include NFL, Arizona Cardinals, Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, Green Bay…
  • "Maryland Bill Would Outlaw Ransomware, Keep Researchers From Reporting Bugs"
    The ransomware attack that took Baltimore City's services offline prompted the construction of a new law by Maryland legislators, which is aimed at addressing the threat of these attacks. The proposed bill, Senate Bill 3, would prohibit a person from…
  • "Chameleon Attack Can Secretly Modify Content on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn"
    Cybersecurity researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev examined seven online platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, to identify vulnerabilities associated with these platforms' post-management systems. The researchers discovered a…