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  • "Cyberattacks in Healthcare Sector More Likely to Carry Financial Consequences"
    Netwrix released additional findings from its global 2022 Cloud Security Report for the healthcare sector, revealing that 61 percent of respondents in the healthcare industry experienced a cyberattack on their cloud infrastructure in the previous 12…
  • "Hackers Selling Access to 576 Corporate Networks for $4 Million"
    According to a new report, hackers are selling access to 576 corporate networks worldwide for a total cumulative sales price of $4,000,000. The findings come from the Israeli cyber-intelligence firm KELA, which published its Q3 2022 ransomware report,…
  • "Cyberattack Strikes Global Copper Conglomerate"
    Aurubis, a global recycler and provider of copper, has assured its customers that a cyberattack on October 28 did not halt production, but it did temporarily shut down the entire company's systems. According to the Aurubis corporate website, the company…
  • "Critical RCE Vulnerability Reported in ConnectWise Server Backup Solution"
    ConnectWise, an IT service management software platform, has released software patches to address a critical security vulnerability in Recover and R1Soft Server Backup Manager (SBM). The vulnerability, defined as the neutralization of Special Elements in…
  • "Data Breach of Missile Maker MBDA May Have Been Real: CloudSEK"
    Back in July, the Adrastea threat actor group announced a data breach affecting MBDA, a European missile manufacturer having ties to NATO.  At the time, the company promptly refuted the claims, saying that while some files were stolen, MBDA was not…
  • Pub Crawl #67
    ​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.
  • "Why a Hardware Bill of Materials Is a Critical Component for Securing Electronic Products"
    The ability of an organization to protect its most sensitive data comes down to ensuring that all of its bases are covered, which is difficult to do when the foundation is weak. Traditionally, the cybersecurity industry has focused on identifying and…
  • "Niche-Filling New Course Meets Aircraft and Spacecraft Industries' Workforce Need"
    The new Purdue Aviation and Space Cybersecurity course provides engineering students with valuable cyber-domain security knowledge while also providing computer science and cybersecurity majors with aeronautical and astronautical engineering knowledge.…
  • "5G Communications Security"
    Keith Gremban, an aerospace research professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, is leading a military-oriented research project aimed at enabling the secure use of 5G networks that could be controlled by an adversary. Gremban has received a $749,…
  • "Why Are There So Many Data Breaches? A Growing Industry of Criminals Is Brokering in Stolen Data"
    Researchers at Deakin University discuss the rise in cybercrime and who is responsible for the latest surge in cyberattacks. According to Deakin University's James Martin, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, and Chad Whelan, Professor of Criminology, the…
  • "Ukraine Cybersecurity Head Says Cyberwar Affects Us All"
    In a keynote talk at the BlackBerry Security Summit, Ukraine's state cybersecurity officer, Victor Zhora, stressed that no country or company can protect itself and that now is not the time to isolate oneself. According to Zhora, the best way to combat…
  • "Indiana University Building a Medical Device Security Lab With TriMedX"
    Indiana University Health is collaborating with TriMedX to establish a new cybersecurity lab that will assess and test the security of medical devices in the hopes of reducing cybersecurity threats during the device development process. TriMedX,…