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"UK Data Protection Bill Tweaked to Protect Security Researchers"The UK government has made changes to its Data Protection Bill in order to protect security researchers who work to determine whether anonymized data sets such as medical records and other personal data are adequately anonymous. The amendments are in…
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"Wi-Fi Alliance Launches WPA2 Enhancements and Debuts WPA3"Security enhancements for security protocols WPA2 and the upcoming WPA3, have been announced by the Wi-Fi Alliance. According to the Wi-Fi Alliance, security enhancements made to the WPA2 protocol aims to improve upon security authentication, encryption…
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“A Report to the President on Enhancing the Resilience of the Internet and Communications Ecosystem Against Botnets and Other Automated, Distributed Threats”A draft report published by the US Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security was announced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This draft was developed in response to Executive Order 13800, Strengthening the Cybersecurity of…
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"What Is LightsOut? New Adware Found Infesting 22 Flashlight Apps with over 1.5 Million Downloads"A new mobile adware program called LightsOut was discovered by Check Point researchers to be hidden in 22 fraudulent flashlight and utility applications that were available for download in the Google Play Store. LightsOut unleashed a barrage of pop-up…
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"Stealthy Crypto-Miners Are Slipping Into Web Ads"Through the use of an artificial intelligence system called Sarah, Spotad was able to discover the use of legitimate-looking online advertisements by cybercriminals to mine for Monero cryptocurrency. The process of mining would be activated upon clicking…
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"Meltdown and Spectre Fixes Arrive—But Don't Solve Everything"So far, patching has been the solution enacted against the critical security vulnerabilities that are Meltdown and Spectre. The processor flaws leave nearly all computers manufactured in the last two decades vulnerable to unauthorized access and the…
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“Cloud-Based Docs the New Frontier for Phishing Attacks”Security researchers at Proofpoint have found a vulnerability that could be exploited to launch phishing attacks on unsuspecting victims. Google App Script, which is a Javascript cloud scripting language, has been discovered to contain a vulnerability…
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“Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Help States Beef Up Election Cybersecurity”In an attempt to protect voting systems against hackers, a bipartisan bill called the Secure Elections Act has been filed by six U.S. senators that would help states transition from paperless electronic-only voting machines to paper ballots. In addition…
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“Cybersecurity in Self-Driving Cars: U-M Releases Threat Identification Tool”University of Michigan researchers working with Mcity, an automated vehicle testing facility, have developed a tool called the “Mcity Threat Identification Model” to help academic and industry researchers in the identification and analysis of potential…
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“Government-Led Cyber Discovery Programme Gets 20,000 Student Sign Ups in Just Six Weeks”The U.K. government-led Cyber Discovery program has garnered much interest as indicated by the number of students that have signed up since its launch in November 2017. Over 20,000 students have signed up to participate in the Cyber Discovery program,…
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"DHS Supporting Cybersecurity Forecasting Platform"418 Intelligence Corporation of Herndon, Virginia has been awarded $350,000 by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) to develop a cybersecurity forecasting platform. The forecasting platform will improve…
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“Meltdown and Spectre: Data theft hardware bugs affect most modern CPUs”More details regarding a design flaw contained by modern Intel processors that affect nearly all computers running Windows, Linux, and macOS, have been released by security researchers and companies affected by the major security hole. Further findings…