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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… -
"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.
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"Most Firms Now Fear Nation State Attack"A new study conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit has found that most businesses now regard state-sponsored or led attacks as a significant threat. The study was done by conducting interviews with over 500 director-level or above executives…
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"FBI: Telephony Denial-of-Service Attacks Can Lead to Loss of Lives"The FBI recently issued a warning about Telephony Denial-of-Service (TDoS) attacks against critical first-responder facilities and the impact that such attacks can have on public safety. A TDoS attack aims to render a telephone system unavailable by…
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"DARPA Hacks Its Secure Hardware, Fends Off Most Attacks"The Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) recently announced the results of its first bug bounty program called Findings Exploits to Thwart Tampering (FETT). The FETT bug bounty was run in partnership with the Department of Defense's Defense Digital…
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"NIST Finalizes Cybersecurity Guidance for Positioning, Navigation and Timing Systems"The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released finalized guidance based on its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF). The release of this guidance satisfies Executive Order 13905 on securely using position, navigation, and timing (PNT)…
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"FireEye IDs Hacking Group Suspected in Accellion, Kroger Breach"Mandiant, a division of the security vendor FireEye, has identified UNC2546 as the hacking group behind the recent data breach suffered by the software firm Accellion, which impacted many corporations, law firms, and other organizations. Accellion…
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"Malformed URL Prefix Phishing Attacks Spike 6,000%"Researchers at GreatHorn have found that sneaky adversaries are flipping backslashes in phishing email URLs to evade protections. The researchers first noticed this new tactic last October and have found that it has been quickly gaining momentum ever…
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"30,000 Macs Infected With New Silver Sparrow Malware"Recently security researchers have spotted a new malware operation targeting Mac devices that have silently infected almost 30,000 systems. The new malware is named Silver Sparrow. The researchers found that Silver Sparrow had infected 29,139 macOS…
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"Ransomware Actors Leak Data From 3 More Healthcare-Related Entities"The operators of Avaddon, Conti, and REvil ransomware have leaked data from a medical center, health system, IT vendor, and some clients. The REvil ransomware gang posted data allegedly stolen from several clients of the document scanning and management…
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"France to Boost Cyberdefense After Hospital Malware Attacks"Emmanuel Macron, the French President, recently announced a plan to improve the protection of public facilities and private companies against cyberattacks after cybercriminals launched ransomware attacks against two hospitals in France. These attacks…