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"30 Years Ago, the World’s First Cyberattack Set the Stage for Modern Cybersecurity Challenge"In 1988, Robert Tappan Morris inadvertently performed a type of cyberattack that is now known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The historic program, called the Morris worm, was the first of its kind, which slowed down large parts of…
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"NAU Electrical Engineers to Lead Development, Commercialization of Next-Gen Cybersecurity Solutions for Internet of Things"The National Science Foundation's Partnerships for Innovation Program has awarded a $750,000 grant to a team of electrical engineers at Northern Arizona University (NAU) in support of the team's efforts to improve the security of IoT devices against…
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"USB Threat to Industrial Facilities Comes into Sharp Focus with New Honeywell Data"A new study emphasizes the dangers posed by USB drives to the security of industrial facilities. Honeywell International conducted an examination of USB usage at 50 industrial sites on four continents and found that advanced threats such as Stuxnet,…
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"GPU Side Channel Attacks Can Enable Spying on Web Activity, Password Stealing"Computer scientists at the University of California, Riverside, have discovered the ease at which attackers can spy on web activity via the use of graphic processing units (GPUs). In addition to spying on web activity, GPU side-channel attacks can also…
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"Researchers Expose 'Critical Vulnerabilities' in SSD Encryption"Research conducted by Radboud University in the Netherlands reveals critical vulnerabilities in the encryption of solid state drives (SSDs). The reverse engineering self-encrypting SSDs' firmware exposed the presence of critical security vulnerabilities…
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"New Data Protection Act Calls for Jail Time, Fines"A new Consumer Data Protection Act has recently been proposed by Oregon Senator, Ron Wyden. The aim of the bill is to hold companies more accountable for bolstering their cybersecurity and data privacy through the implementation of strict penalties,…
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"Intel CPUs Impacted by New PortSmash Side-Channel Vulnerability"
A new side-channel attack, dubbed PortSmash, has been discovered by researchers. PortSmash has been said to impact all CPUs that have simultaneous multithreading (SMT) capabilities. Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs have been found to be vulnerable to…
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"Unhackable Computer Relying on Firmware Security Rather Than Software Patches"
A team of researchers received a $3.6 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in support of a project, called MORPHEUS, which applies a significantly different approach to cybersecurity from what is used today. The approach aims…
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"These New Techniques Expose Your Browsing History to Attackers"Four new ways in which hackers can find out which websites that users have visited were discovered by security researchers at UC San Diego and Stanford. The techniques demonstrated by researchers are categorized as history sniffing attacks, which can be…
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"Highly Secure Physically Unclonable Cryptographic Primitives Based on Interfacial Magnetic Anisotropy"An advancement has been made by a team of researchers towards better information security for the Internet of Things. A new type of physically unclonable function (PUF) has been designed by the researchers, which is based on interfacial magnetic…
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"Feds Expand Security Researchers' Ability to Hack Without Going to Jail"
Exemptions have been extended and added to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by the Librarian of Congress and U.S. Copyright Office. These exemptions are in support of protecting computer security researchers from being criminalized for their…
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"Destructive Cyberattacks Spiked in Q3"
According to findings of a study conducted by Carbon Black, there has been a signifiant increase in destructive cyberattacks against U.S. organizations during the third quarter of 2018. These attacks aimed to cripple organizations by deleting or…
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