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  • "Majority of Hotel Websites Leak Guest Booking Info"
    New research conducted by Symantec reveals the leakage of detailed guest booking data by the majority of hotels to third-party advertisers, social media websites, and more. This data includes information such as names, addresses, mobile phone …
  • "Phishing Scheme Uses Legit Signup Forms to Steal Payment Card Data"
    Security researchers have found that cybercriminals are using signup forms for official newsletters from the websites of international companies to hide phishing attacks. According to researchers, these phishing emails can evade spam filters used by…
  • "New Super-Secure Wi-Fi Is Actually Full of Security Holes"
    Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3) isn't as secure as it was proclaimed to be as researchers have uncovered critical design flaws in the Wi-Fi security and authentication standard. According to researchers, WPA3 is vulnerable to the same attacks that WPA2…
  • "Google's Making It Easier to Safeguard Sensitive Data Troves"
    Google's Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tool has the capability to perform scans of large amounts of data in the cloud in order to identify and redact the data that is sensitive. The tool is used in many Google products, but it can also be used by…
  • "Is AI In Cyber Security A New Tool For Hackers In 2019?"
    AI is being used more and more to help protect from cyberattacks.  AI uses machine learning to enhance its intelligence. To improve cybersecurity, it fills the gap of lack of skills to prevent cyber attacks. While AI can improve…
  • "Framing Supply Chain Attacks"
    As software development teams are pressured to deliver applications in a short amount of time, they often turn to open source components, code reuse, and third-party integrations, thus increasing the vulnerability of applications to cyberattacks and…
  • "DNS hijacking campaigns target Gmail, Netflix, and PayPal users"
    There is a DNS hijacking campaign that has been ongoing for the past three months.  Attackers are targeting the users of popular online services, including Gmail, Netflix, and PayPal. During the DNS hijacking, the hacker compromises …
  • "Cybersecurity Team at NAU Testing Ternary Computing to Secure Blockchain Technology for Cryptocurrency, Other Applications"
    A team of cybersecurity researchers at Northern Arizona University's (NAU) School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, has been awarded a $125,000 grant by the U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) in support of work to strengthen the security of…
  • "A Powerful Spyware App Now Targets iPhone Owners"
    According to researchers at the mobile security firm, Lookout, the powerful surveillance app that was initially designed for Android devices, called Exodus, now targets iPhones. The developer of the malicious app was able to evade the Apple app store's…
  • "Watch SwRI Engineers Trick Object Detection System"
    Engineers at Southwest Research Institute have developed new adversarial learning techniques that can make objects invisible to object detection systems in which deep-learning algorithms are used. These techniques can also be used to deceive object…
  • "Tenable Discloses Verizon Fios Router Vulnerabilities"
    Any one with a Verizon Fios Quantum Gateway router, may be at risk of cyberattacks.  Tenable was able to find multiple vulnerabilities in the Verizon Fios Quantum Gateway (G1000) router. The impact of the vulnerabilities found is…
  • HotSoS 2019 Summary Report
      Hot Topics in the Science of Security: Symposium and Bootcamp (HotSoS) 2019