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"The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act: A First Step in Bolstering Smart Technology Security"Every second, 127 new IoT devices are connected to the web, and experts predict that by 2025, that figure will equate to more than 75 billion connected devices overall. IoT devices are often riddled with security vulnerabilities impacting security…
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SoS Musings #46 - The Battle Against Fileless Malware Attacks ContinuesSoS Musings #46 - The Battle Against Fileless Malware Attacks Continues
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Spotlight on Lablet Research #15 - Reasoning about Accidental and Malicious Misuse via Formal MethodsSpotlight on Lablet Research #15 - Project: Reasoning about Accidental and Malicious Misuse via Formal Methods
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Cybersecurity Snapshots #15 - Attacks Against the Nation's Water SystemsCybersecurity Snapshots #15 - Attacks Against the Nation's Water Systems
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Cyber Scene #53 - Cybersecurity: Under (Mostly) New ManagementCyber Scene #53 - Cybersecurity: Under (Mostly) New Management
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"Daycare Webcam Service Exposes 12,000 User Accounts"NurseryCam, a webcam service used across 40 daycare centers in the U.K. by parents who want to keep a watchful eye on their babies, has shut down following a data breach. The breach exposed the personal data of about 12,000 users to an attacker who said…
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"Microsoft Lures Populate Half of Credential-Swiping Phishing Emails"Researchers at Cofense have analyzed millions of emails related to various attacks and found that 57 percent were phishing emails aiming to steal victim usernames and passwords. The remainder of malicious emails were utilized in business email…
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"Hackers Hit 10,000 Mailboxes in Phishing Attacks on FedEx and DHL Express"Security researchers at Armorblox have discovered two large email phishing attacks targeting at least 10,000 victims. The targets of the two campaigns were sent phishing emails that appeared to come from the shipping companies FedEx and DHL Express. One…
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"Sustainable But Smartly: Tackling Security And Privacy Issues In Smart Agriculture"A team of researchers from China, Algeria, and the UK conducted a comprehensive analysis of security and privacy risks associated with current technologies used in smart agriculture. The researchers also identified and proposed potential countermeasures…
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"Security Flaw Detected for the Second Time in Credit Cards"Researchers working with the Information Security Group at ETH Zurich discovered a way to circumvent the PIN codes for different contactless credit cards. In summer 2020, the researchers demonstrated how to bypass a PIN code for Visa cards. They have now…
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Pub Crawl #47Pub 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.