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  • "DHS S&T Moves to Strengthens Mobile Device Email Security and Privacy"

    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science of Technology Directorate (S&T) recently announced the development of a new Cloud-Based Root-of-Trust (CRoT) technology aimed at bolstering the security and privacy of mobile devices. With…

  • "Beyond Encryption: Protecting Consumer Privacy While Keeping Survey Results Accurate"

    Local governments, marketing agencies, social media companies, and other types of organizations continue to collect data while assuring anonymity and confidentiality. However, existing data privacy laws do not ensure the prevention of data breaches in…

  • "Google Sees Millions of COVID-19-Related Malicious Emails Daily"

    Google has observed a significant surge in the daily distribution of COVID-19-related malware and phishing emails. According to the Internet giant, they are blocking more than 240 million coronavirus-themed spam messages and 18 million malware and…

  • "Average Bandwidth of DDoS Attacks Increasing, APIs and Applications Under Attack"

    Researchers at Link11 have discovered that the volume and complexity of DDoS attacks continued to grow in the Q1 of 2020.  The number of high-volume DDoS attacks in Q1 of 2020 increased with 51 attacks over 50 Gbps.  In Q1 of 2020, the maximum…

  • "Engineers to Work on Cybersecurity for Systems Linking Solar Power to Grid"

    The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office awarded $3.6 million to Alan Mantooth, Distinguished Professor of electrical engineering at the University of Arkansas (UARK) and executive director of the National Center for Reliable…

  • "FBI Official Says Foreign Hackers Have Targeted COVID-19 research"

    A senior cybersecurity official with the FBI has confirmed that foreign government hackers are hacking into companies that are researching treatments for COVID-19.  It is advised that medical research organizations and organizations that work for…

  • "In Search of a B.S. Filter for Software Bugs"

    Some organizations are still struggling to determine the potential impact of a software bug on their business. The cybersecurity company Rapid7 set up a project to bring further attention to how crowdsourcing can help organizations rate the severity of…

  • "Critical 'Starbleed' Vulnerability in FPGA Chips Identified"

    Scientists from the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and from Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy have discovered that Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) contain a critical security vulnerability, dubbed "…

  • "New Silicon Chip 'Fingerprint' for Stronger Hardware Security at Low Cost"

    Researchers from NUS (National University of Singapore) Electrical and Computer Engineering have developed new self-healing and self-concealing Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs). PUFs use the inherent, unique manufacturing variations in microchips…

  • "‘Double Extortion’ Ransomware Attacks Spike"

    Ransomware attacks are starting to use a tactic called Double Extortion much more often.  The ransomware tactic Double Extortion emerged in late 2019 but has been being used much more frequently in Q1 of 2020.  In this tactic, adversaries try…

  • "Scammers Are Masquerading as Smart TV Owners to Fleece Advertisers, Researchers Say"

    Security researchers from White Ops, have discovered an ongoing scheme in which fraudsters are charging advertising companies for ad space on smart TVs, and then not delivering on their promise.  The scammers are disguising bot activity which,…

  • "Phishing Campaign Tries to Fool WebEx Users With Bogus IT Security Warnings"

    The Cofence Phishing Defense Center released a report detailing a new phishing campaign that targets users of the video conferencing platform WebEx. According to the report, remote workers who have been using the platform are receiving IT security email…