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  • "Researcher Hacks Starlink Terminal to Warn SpaceX of Dangerous Flaws"

    A researcher from Belgium developed a $25 hacking tool capable of corrupting Starlink's Internet terminals, and he is reportedly planning to make this tool available for others to copy. At the Black Hat Security Conference, Lennert Wouters, a security…

  • "Meta Tests Encrypted Backups and End-to-End Encryption in Facebook Messenger"

    Social media giant Meta has announced it will start testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) as the default option on its Facebook Messenger platform.  The feature will be initially available only to selected users.  The company stated that if you…

  • "The US Offers a $10 Million Bounty for Intel on the Conti Ransomware Gang"

    Since the release of the Conti ransomware strain in 2020, its operators have wreaked havoc all over the world. They've used it to shut down hospitals, attack governments, and extort countless businesses. These criminal hackers have targeted over 1,000…

  • "Deepfakes Expose Vulnerabilities in Certain Facial Recognition Technology"

    Mobile devices use facial recognition technology to help users unlock their phones, make financial transactions, and access medical records quickly and securely. According to new research involving the Penn State College of Information Sciences and…

  • "Intel Introduces Protection Against Physical Fault Injection Attacks"

    Intel recently announced its release of Tunable Replica Circuit (TRC), a new fault injection protection in the 12th generation Intel Core processors meant to identify non-invasive physical glitch attacks and electromagnetic fault injections.  Intel…

  • "AI May Come to the Rescue of Future Firefighters"

    In firefighting, the worst flames are the ones you don’t see coming.  It is very difficult to notice signs of impending flashover, a deadly fire phenomenon wherein nearly all combustible items in a room ignite suddenly.  Flashover is one of the…

  • "OCSF Promises to Advance Cybersecurity Data Sharing"

    An Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) unveiled at the Black Hat USA 2022 conference promises to address long-standing data sharing issues that limit the effectiveness of cybersecurity teams while increasing overall costs. The OCSF, led by Amazon…

  • "CISA, FBI Warn Healthcare Sector of Zeppelin Ransomware"

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a joint cybersecurity advisory to warn critical infrastructure of the dangers of Zeppelin ransomware. From 2019 to at least June 2022, the…

  • "SolidBit Ransomware Group Recruiting New Affiliates on Dark Web"

    Security researchers at CloudSEK have discovered that a threat actor group named SolidBit is actively advertising RaaS (Ransom-as-a-Service) and looking to recruit new affiliates on dark web forums.  The researchers stated that the group is actively…

  • "Successful Bootcamp with Girls Code Club"

    The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Gothenburg organized a course to encourage girls to explore coding. Through the course, the girls experienced programming and learned about cryptography, hands-on hacking, sorting…

  • "Realtek SDK Vulnerability Exposes Routers From Many Vendors to Remote Attacks"

    Security researchers at Faraday have discovered a severe vulnerability affecting the eCos SDK made by Taiwanese semiconductor company Realtek that could expose the networking devices of many vendors to remote attacks.  The vulnerability tracked as…

  • "Microsoft Paid $13.7 Million via Bug Bounty Programs Over Past Year"

    Microsoft recently announced that, over the past 12 months alone, it paid out $13.7 million in rewards as part of its bug bounty programs.  Microsoft is currently running over 15 bug bounty programs covering assets across its cloud services, desktop…