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"Oklahoma Cops Say Rape Victims' Data May Have Been Leaked"The Oklahoma City Police Department (OKCPD) has announced that personal data belonging to victims of sexual assault may have been exposed during a security incident at a DNA analysis laboratory. The OKCPD said that a company the department…
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"Computer Security Researchers Aim To Prevent Tech Abuse"Computer security researchers at Cornell Tech have developed a new method for helping domestic abuse survivors stop assailants from hacking into their devices and social media to cause further harm to them. Their model is based on continuity of care in…
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"Vishing Makes Phishing Campaigns Three-Times More Successful"IBM's security researchers have found that phishing emerged as the number one threat vector in 2021. The researchers revealed that phishing overtook vulnerability exploitation as the top pathway for compromise globally last year, accounting for 41…
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SoS Musings #58 - Bolstering Open Source Software SecuritySoS Musings #58 - Bolstering Open Source Software Security
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"A Security Technique to Fool Would-Be Cyber Attackers"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have demonstrated a new technique that protects a computer program's secret information from attackers while enabling faster computation. Multiple programs running on the same computer may…
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"Log4j Vulnerabilities Put Strain on Overburdened Cybersecurity Workforce"Since the discovery of Apache Log4j vulnerabilities in 2021, the cybersecurity workforce has been trying to patch systems, reduce the intensity of network intrusions, and manage other critical activities at the same time. The significance of these…
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Cybersecurity Snapshots #27 - Organizations Are Urged to Be On the Lookout for Potential Russian CyberattacksCybersecurity Snapshots #27 - Organizations Are Urged to Be On the Lookout for Potential Russian Cyberattacks
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Cyber Scene #65 - Cyber Front Strategic Update: Not Quiet on Western, or Any FrontsCyber Scene #65 - Cyber Front Strategic Update: Not Quiet on Western, or Any Fronts
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"Ukrainian Cops Bust Prolific Phishing Group"Ukrainian police have arrested a phishing gang that allegedly tricked tens of thousands of victims into handing over their credit card details on spoofed sites. The five individuals reportedly made over five million hryvnias ($172,600) from their…
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"Hyper-Growth Linked to Higher Hacking Risk"Security researchers at Beyond Identity have found that companies with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40% or higher are more likely than companies growing at a standard rate to have suffered ten or more cybersecurity breaches. The…
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Spotlight on Lablet Research #27 - Formal Approaches to the Ontology and Epistemology of ResilienceSpotlight on Lablet Research #27 - Formal Approaches to the Ontology and Epistemology of Resilience
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"Toward a Stronger Defense of Personal Data"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) chip to defend Internet of Things (IoT) devices against power-based side-channel attacks. A side-channel attack is a security…