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  • "Researchers Demonstrate 'Unconditionally Secure' Quantum Digital Payments"
    New research from the University of Vienna may soon enable a completely secure, unhackable, and private digital payment system. In a recently published paper titled "Demonstration of quantum-digital payments," a team of researchers from the Vienna Center…
  • "Concerns Grow about MFA Bypass Attacks"
    Multi-factor authentication (MFA) involves authentication factors such as passwords, fingerprints, and smartphones to secure systems and data. Security experts encourage consumers and organizations to adopt MFA, because it is more difficult for hackers…
  • "This New Tool Could Protect Your Pictures From AI Manipulation"
    People can take a photo posted online and edit it with advanced generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems for malicious purposes. Due to the sophistication of these systems, it may be impossible to prove that the resulting image is fake. However, a…
  • Pub Crawl #76
    ​Pub Crawl summarizes, by hard problems, sets of publications that have been peer reviewed and presented at SoS conferences or referenced in current work. The topics are chosen for their usefulness for current researchers.
  • "New Smartphone Vulnerability Discovered by Northeastern Ph.D. Student Reveals Hackers Could Track Your Location"
    According to Evangelos Bitsikas, a Ph.D. student at Northeastern University, a recently discovered vulnerability in text messaging may allow attackers to track a user's location. His research team found the flaw by applying a sophisticated Machine…
  • "8 Million People Hit by Data Breach at US Govt Contractor Maximus"
    U.S. government services contractor Maximus has recently disclosed a data breach warning that hackers stole the personal data of 8 to 11 million people during the recent MOVEit Transfer data-theft attacks.  Maximus is a contractor that manages and…
  • "Akira Ransomware Compromised at Least 63 Victims Since March, Report Says"
    According to researchers at the cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf, the recently discovered Akira ransomware actively targets small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) worldwide, with the US and Canada as its primary targets. Since its discovery in March…
  • "'Call of Duty' Players Are Being Hit With Self-Spreading Malware"
    Hackers are targeting Call of Duty players with a massive malware push that can self-replicate and spread through the game's multiplayer lobbies. The malware infection appears to have been sufficient for Activision to take the game offline. Some members…
  • "CardioComm Takes Systems Offline Following Cyberattack"
    Canadian heart monitoring and medical electrocardiogram solutions provider CardioComm recently announced it has taken systems offline following a cyberattack.  The company stated that the cyberattack impacted its production server environments and…
  • "Multiple Security Issues Identified in Peloton Fitness Equipment"
    Security researchers at Check Point have discovered that internet-connected Peloton fitness equipment is plagued with numerous security issues that could allow attackers to obtain device information or deploy malware.  The researchers analyzed the…
  • "EPSS Vulnerability Scores Can Help Focus on Key Patches, Says Study"
    According to a study by Rezilion, the new Machine Learning (ML)-based Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) can help overcome the limitations of existing vulnerability tracking systems. Researchers at Rezilion say that the leading vulnerability…
  • "DepositFiles Exposed Config File, Jeopardizing User Security"
    DepositFiles is a service that claims to be the ideal location to store and share files. However, researchers discovered DepositFiles' publicly hosted environment configuration (config) file, a critical record of how to run software. The file exposed…