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  • "A National Science Foundation Grant Will Help USF Recruit Students to Fight Cybercrime"

    More than $29 million in new funding is being provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to promote the development of a skilled cybersecurity workforce. The NSF stated that the funds will be used to address cybersecurity professional recruitment…

  • "US No Fly List Shared on a Hacking Forum, Government Investigating"

    A US No Fly list with more than 1.5 million banned flyers and over 250,000 'selectees' has been made public on a hacking forum. A Swiss hacker found the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) No Fly list hosted on a misconfigured AWS server. The…

  • "Titan Stealer: A New Golang-Based Information Stealer Malware Emerges"

    Through their Telegram channel, threat actors are promoting a new Golang-based information-stealing virus dubbed Titan Stealer. The stealer can take data from infected Windows machines, including credential data from browsers and cryptocurrency wallets,…

  • "Protecting Critical Infrastructure Through High-Assurance Security and Authorization"

    The rising number of cyber threats faced by critical infrastructure emphasizes the importance of developing innovative and adaptable solutions to protect sensitive components. Professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South…

  • "Identifying a Vulnerability in Critical Spacecraft Networks"

    Linh Thi Xuan Phan, an associate professor in Penn Engineering's department of computer and information science, worked with a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and NASA to identify a security vulnerability in critical spacecraft…

  • "Russian-Sponsored Group Sandworm Hits Ukraine With New Wiper Malware"

    On January 25, a new wiper cyberattack linked to Sandworm was launched against Ukraine. According to the cybersecurity firm ESET, the wiper malware dubbed SwiftSlicer deletes shadow copies and recursively overwrites files found in system drivers and…

  • "Only Half of Organizations Have an Adequate Cyber Security Budget"

    According to a recent survey by the Neustar International Security Council (NISC), only 49 percent of firms have a sufficient budget to fully satisfy their present cybersecurity needs, and 11 percent can protect only their most critical assets. Despite…

  • "Open-Source Skills Continue to Be in High Demand"

    Perforce Software and the Open-Source Initiative report that 80 percent of organizations have increased their use of open-source software over the past year. Four out of five organizations rely on open-source software for various mission-critical…

  • "UCHealth, UCLA Health Report Healthcare Data Breaches"

    UCHealth in Aurora, Colorado, recently reported a third-party data breach to HHS that impacted 48,879 individuals.  According to its notice to patients, UCHealth was informed by software company Diligent that some patient, provider, and employee…

  • "Cloud Security and Video Forensics Software Have Been Transitioned to End Users"

    Keylime and the Forensic Video Exploitation and Analysis (FOVEA) tool suite, both developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory to enhance security, have been awarded 2023 Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards by the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC). Keylime…

  • "Multiple Vulnerabilities Found In Healthcare Software OpenEMR"

    Researchers at Sonar have found three separate vulnerabilities in OpenEMR, an open-source software for electronic health records and medical practice management.  The researchers stated that a combination of these vulnerabilities allows remote…

  • "RSA's Demise From Quantum Attacks Is Very Much Exaggerated, Expert Says"

    Using quantum computing, researchers recently made a breakthrough that makes cracking the RSA encryption scheme possible. A team of researchers in China reported discovering a factorization method that could crack a 2,048-bit RSA key using a quantum…