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  • "Cybercriminals: Things Are About to Get a Lot More Confusing for You"
    Studies conducted by Cleotilde Gonzalez, a professor in Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon and her colleagues, delve deeper into the use of deception in cybersecurity. Using deception in cyber defense operations could help prevent the…
  • Spotlight on Lablet Research #2 - Automated Synthesis Framework for Network Security and Resilience
    Spotlight on Lablet Research #2 - Project: Automated Synthesis Framework for Network Security and Resilience
  • "2020 Outlook for Cybersecurity Legislation"
    Several cybersecurity-related bills have been passed by the House or the Senate and are likely to be candidates for further action. CSO Online gives an overview of these bills, which include the Cybersecurity Vulnerability Remediation Act, Hack Your…
  • "Data Breach Exposes Personal Information on Cannabis Users"
    On December 24, 2019, security researchers with VPNMentor discovered an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket owned by THSuite, a point-of-sale system (PoS) system in the cannabis industry. The database lacked authentication and security, thus leading to the…
  • "How Blockchain Could Prevent Future Data Breaches"
    Right before the start of the new year, a data breach faced by LifeLabs, one of Canada's major lab diagnostic and testing services, impacted 15 million Canadians. Data exposed in this breach included names, addresses, emails, login passwords, lab test…
  • "FBI Shuts Down Website Selling Billions of Stolen Records"
    US law enforcement has seized the WeLeakInfo.com domain name. WeLeakInfo.com contained personal data of individuals stolen in data breaches. The website offered a pay-to-play scenario that allowed anyone to search for and obtain personal details of…
  • "Hong Kong Looks to GDPR as it Strengthens Privacy Laws"
    Hong Kong will enforce stronger privacy laws similar to that of the European Union's General Protection Regulation (GDPR), which aims to ensure the protection of personal data belonging to EU residents by enforcing a standard upon any companies that…
  • "Cybercrime: Internet Erodes Teenage Impulse Controls"
    A new study conducted by Flinders Criminology found that teenagers' struggle to control their impulses on the internet could make them more susceptible to engaging in cybercriminal activities. Researchers behind the study delved into how the nature of…
  • "What do Online File Sharers Want With 70,000 Tinder Images?"
     A researcher has discovered a collection of over 70,000 photographs harvested from the dating app Tinder on several undisclosed websites.  The data found also contained around 16,000 unique Tinder user IDs. The images are available for free.…
  • "Worldwide IT Spending to Total $3.9 Trillion in 2020"
    In a new study conducted by Gartner, researchers found that worldwide IT spending will total $3.9 trillion in 2020, an increase of 3.4% from 2019.  Global IT spending is going to be around $4 trillion in 2021. Researchers also discovered that the…
  • "FBI Takes Down Site Selling Subscriptions to Stolen Data"
    The FBI, with support from the UK's National Crime Agency, the Dutch National Police Corp, the German Bundeskriminalamtt, and the Police Service of Northern Ireland, took down a site called WeLeakInfo, that was used by cybercriminals to sell stolen…
  • "Homomorphic Encryption Improves Cloud Security"
    A team of researchers outlined a proposed homomorphic encryption system in the International Journal of Cloud Computing. Homomorphic encryption takes on a new approach to encryption by performing computations on encrypted data without having to decrypt…