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"How one small hack turned a secure ATM into a cash-spitting monster"IOActive researchers have demonstrated the possibility of a hacker infiltrating an ATM machine to exploit a vulnerability, which could allow all of the money within the machine to be dispensed until complete depletion. This demonstration highlights the… -
"Industroyer malware a turning point for ICS security"Security researchers have shared further analyses of the “Industroyer” malware that targeted Ukraine’s power grid in December 2016. Researchers from ESET and Dragos, Inc., have shared their research in a presentation at Black Hat, in which they…
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"New Form of Cyber-Attack Targets Energy Sector"Energy companies are being targeted by a new form of spear-phishing attack. CyberInt has discovered this attack to be difficult to detect as the distributed “lure” email consisting of an attached Word document does not contain any malicious code, making…
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"Bot vs Bot in Never-Ending Cycle of Improving Artificial intelligence"The utilization of artificial intelligence through the implementation of machine learning is expected to defeat the attacks of malware and hackers by many in the cybersecurity field, however others believe this technology does not offer the ultimate…
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"10 Critical Steps to Create a Culture of Cybersecurity"Although incidents of cyberattacks targeting organizations are constantly headlined to promote awareness of such attacks, many businesses still lack sufficient tools and procedures for the protection of their systems and data. Cyber incidents pose major…
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"A Clever New Tool Shuts Down Ransomware Before It's Too Late"A new tool called ShieldFS has been developed by Andrea Continella and his team of researchers to automatically detect ransomware and perform a system restore from backups before the targeted system can be locked down by hackers. This tool performs by…
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NSA SoS Lablet Call for Proposals is OpenThe National Security Agency has distributed its BAA (really a request for proposals) for its next generation of SoS Lablets. These lablets include lablets on the 5 Hard Problem areas in Science of Security, on the Science of Privacy and dealing with…
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"Novel Attack Tricks Servers to Cache, Expose Personal Data"Omer Gil, an information security team leader at EY Advanced Security Center, has discovered a way in which a web server could be deceived into caching pages and revealing sensitive information. This web caching attack is performed through the abuse of…
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Technical Papers at CMU Quarterly Meeting 2017Science of Security Lablet Quarterly Meeting Pittsburgh, PA July 11, 2017 Research Presentations at Lablet Quarterly Meeting The summer 2017 quarterly Science of Security (SoS) Lablet meeting was held at Carnegie Mellon University on July 10 and 11…
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"Why has healthcare become such a target for cyber-attackers?"Healthcare has increasingly become one of the most targeted industries for cyberattacks as indicated by recent incidents of massive data breaches and ransomware attacks. Concerns pertaining to the potential hacking of connected medical devices have also…
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Lablet Quarterly Meeting CMU Report 2017Science of Security Lablet Quarterly Meeting Pittsburgh, PA July 11, 2017 Researchers, NSA meet, discuss Science of Security theory and practice The summer 2017 quarterly Science of Security (SoS) Lablet meeting was held at Carnegie Mellon…
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"NSA funds cybersecurity project to bolster security of cloud-based computing"A University of Arkansas at Little Rock researcher, Dr. Mengjun Xie, has received additional funding from the National Security Agency (NSA) for the development of a virtual cybersecurity lab, which aims to improve upon cybersecurity skills of students…