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  • "Data Breach at Shields Health Care Group Impacts 2 Million Patients"
    Shields Health Care Group has recently informed roughly two million individuals of a cybersecurity incident that potentially impacted their personal data.  Shields Health Care Group is located in Massachusetts and provides management and imaging…
  • "Protecting Our Physical and Digital Safety in Hospitals and Connected Cars"
    Guillaume Dupont, a Ph.D. student at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), investigated the 'safeness' risks in hospitals and modern automobiles, two critical cyber-physical domains. He developed three key requirements to provide efficient…
  • "Follina Exploited by State-Sponsored Hackers"
    State-sponsored hackers have been added to the list of adversaries seeking to exploit Microsoft's now-patched Follina vulnerability. According to Proofpoint researchers, state-sponsored hackers attempted to exploit the Follina vulnerability in Microsoft…
  • "6G Component Provides Speed, Efficiency Needed for Next-Gen Network"
    Even though consumers won’t see it for years, researchers worldwide are already laying the foundation for the next generation of wireless communications, 6G.  Security researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed components that…
  • "Phishing Attacks Will Use Powerful Text Generation, Say Machine-Learning Engineers"
    Would-be phishing victims have a significant edge in a phishing attack, with cybercriminals having to perform everything by hand. However, OpenAI's GPT showed that powerful Machine Learning (ML) text generation can also be designed to be simple for lay…
  • "CISA Challenges Partners and Public to Push for 'More Than a Password' in New Social Media Campaign"
    The US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has announced a collaborative effort with the industry to increase the adoption of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) as well as ensure widespread understanding…
  • "Thousands of Unprotected Elasticsearch Databases Are Being Ransomed"
    Researchers with Secureworks reported a new cybercrime campaign in which many unsecured Internet-facing Elasticsearch instances are being used to steal databases and display a ransom note requesting a ransom to be paid to get the database back. The…
  • "CISA Issues Vulnerability Advisory For Select Dominion Voting Equipment, Urges Updates"
    The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently put out an advisory stating that vulnerabilities within some Dominion voting machines used in roughly a dozen states should be mitigated “as soon as possible.”  The technical flaws…
  • "Ransomware's ROI Retreat Will Drive More BEC Attacks"
    Law enforcement crackdowns, tougher cryptocurrency laws, and the shutdown of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operators are lowering the return on investment (ROI) for ransomware operations worldwide. Crane Hassold, a threat researcher at Abnormal Security…
  • "LockBit 2.0 Gang Claims Mandiant as Latest Victim; Mandiant Sees no Evidence of it"
    Recently, a prominent ransomware group claimed it had successfully attacked cybersecurity giant Mandiant and would release company files.  The ransomware group posted a note slamming Mandiant’s recent research linking it to a separate, sanctioned…
  • "Secure Communication With Light Particles"
    Although quantum computers offer a number of novel possibilities, they pose a threat to Internet security because they are expected to render current encryption methods obsolete. Therefore, researchers at TU Darmstadt have created a new tap-proof…
  • "Peekaboo! Here's a System to Guarantee Smart Home Privacy"
    A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab developed a new privacy-sensitive architecture for developers building smart home apps. The architecture, which the team refers to as "Peekaboo," takes requests from developers to share certain…