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  • "Looking Ahead to 2020 Cybersecurity Trends and a New Decade"
    New cybersecurity threats, risks, and incidents will emerge in the coming year. Security professionals are encouraged to further examine the cybersecurity trends observed this year to prepare for what's to come in 2020. According to security experts,…
  • Pub Crawl #33
    ​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.
  • "Ransomware Situation Goes From Bad to Worse"
    Ransomware was a big issue for organizations in 2019. Researchers are predicting that the number of ransomware attacks increases in 2020. The reason why ransomware attackers were frequently successful in 2019 is that criminal groups started to…
  • "Peters, Scott Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Protect K-12 School Systems from Cyber-Attacks"
    U.S. Senators, Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rick Scott (R-FL), introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at helping K-12 educational institutions strengthen their cybersecurity systems. The two Senators stressed the importance of the K-12 Cybersecurity Act of…
  • "New Security System to Revolutionize Communications Privacy"
    Researchers at the University of St Andrews, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the Center for Unconventional Processes of Sciences (CUP Sciences) have developed a new security system said to be uncrackable by hackers. The…
  • "Detecting Backdoor Attacks on Artificial Neural Networks"
    A team of researchers at Duke Engineering's Center for Evolutionary Intelligence has made an advancement in the detection of backdoor attacks against machine learning models. The execution of backdoor attacks involves poisoning the data fed to a machine…
  • "FBI Warns Against Using Free WiFi Networks While Traveling"
    If you are traveling this holiday season, the FBI is warning travelers of the dangers of using free WiFi networks while traveling, such as hotels or airports. Connecting to a free WiFi network can allow an adversary to load malware, steal the user's…
  • "Twitter Warns Millions of Android App Users to Update Immediately"
    Twitter discovered a flaw in its Android application that could let hackers see users “nonpublic account information” and commandeer their accounts to send tweets and direct messages. The hacker who found the flaw could also access data like location…
  • "Wawa Reveals Massive Data Breach"
    Wawa locations have been affected by a data breach. The breach was discovered on December 10, 2019, contained by December 12, 2019, and has potentially affected all Wawa locations beginning at different points in time after March 4, 2019. The data breach…
  • "Seizure-Triggering Attack Is Stark Example of How Social Media Can Be Weaponized"
    Attackers sent GIFs and videos to followers of the Epilepsy Foundation’s Twitter account, showing flashing strobe lights in an attempt to cause those with the condition to have seizures. The attackers sent the GIFs and videos to followers, using the…
  • "Attackers Using Taylor Swift Image to Hide Malware Payloads"
    Security researchers at Sophos have discovered the use of steganography techniques by a hacking group, named MyKingz. Steganography is an ancient practice in which messages are communicated via formats that conceal the delivery of the messages.…
  • "Ransomware 'Crisis' in US Schools: More Than 1,000 Hit So Far in 2019"
    Many hackers target school organizations. The main form of attack used against schools are Ransomware attacks. New data due to be published today by security firm Armor concludes that a total of 72 US school districts so far have suffered ransomware…