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"Data Breach At College Of The Desert Made Public"Approximately 800 people whose personal data may have been accessed during a cyberattack at College of the Desert will be receiving a formal notification letter with information on additional steps they can take to protect themselves. The college…
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"Microsoft and MITRE Create Tool to Help Security Teams Prepare for Attacks on Machine Learning Systems"Microsoft and MITRE have developed a plug-in that integrates multiple open-source software tools to better prepare cybersecurity professionals for attacks on Machine Learning (ML) systems. The Arsenal tool implements tactics and techniques defined by the…
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"In Neural Networks, Unbreakable Locks Can Hide Invisible Doors"Even though image generators such as DALLE 2 and Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are making headlines, experts still do not understand why they are effective, thus making it difficult to know how they could be manipulated. For example,…
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"HHS Issues Advisory on Clop Data Breach Threat"Recently the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published an alert that warned that Russia-linked ransomware group Clop took responsibility for attacking more than 130 organizations, including some in the health industry, using secure file…
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"WVU Officials Explain, Respond to Data Breach"West Virginia University has recently advised the campus community that a data breach has occurred, but officials said only a limited number of people and their personal information were compromised. Officials learned last November 25 that a…
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"EPA Takes Action to Improve Cybersecurity Resilience for Public Water Systems"The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is releasing a memorandum emphasizing the need for states to assess cybersecurity risks at Public Water Systems (PWSs) in order to protect public drinking water. Although some PWSs have tried to improve their…
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"Satellites and Space Cybersecurity Course Helps Students Explore Concepts, Tools to Keep Space Systems, Vehicles Secure"Satellites and Space Cybersecurity, a first-year course in the Information Security and Intelligence program at Ferris State University, is a major work in progress supporting cybersecurity and data science. The course will cover multiple parts of the…
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"Hackers Steal Gun Owners' Data from Firearm Auction Website"A website that facilitates the purchase and sale of guns has been compromised by hackers, exposing the identity of its customers. The hack exposed sensitive personal information belonging to more than 550,000 users. The exposed data includes full names,…
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"DISA Announces Successful Completion of Thunderdome Zero-Trust Prototype"The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has announced that its Thunderdome prototype has been successfully completed. DISA has been developing and implementing a zero-trust network access architecture. This architecture will strengthen the networks…
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"Over 71k Impacted by Credential Stuffing Attacks on Chick-fil-A Accounts"American fast food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A has started notifying roughly 71,000 individuals that their user accounts have been compromised in a two-month-long credential stuffing campaign. The company said that following a careful…
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"At Least 30% of 'Cyber-Criminals' Are Women: Report"According to a news study by Trend Micro, female participation in cybercrime is far higher than any other type of crime. The researchers used the machine learning web service Gender Analyzer V5 to analyze text written by 50 random users of the…
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"A Key Post-quantum Algorithm May Be Vulnerable to Side-Channel Attacks"Quantum computers have the potential to break today's cryptographic algorithms. Therefore, post-quantum cryptographic algorithms must be so robust that they can withstand massive increases in computing power. However, according to researchers at the KTH…