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Cyber Scene #48 - From Digits to Global Cyber WarsCyber Scene #48 - From Digits to Global Cyber Wars
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Cybersecurity Snapshots #10 - Organizations Need to Take Bluetooth Security SeriouslyCybersecurity Snapshots #10 - Organizations Need to Take Bluetooth Security Seriously
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Spotlight on Lablet Research #10 - Model-Based Explanation for Human-in-the-Loop SecuritySpotlight on Lablet Research #10 - Model-Based Explanation for Human-in-the-Loop Security Lablet: Carnegie Mellon University
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Pub Crawl #42Pub 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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"Critical Instagram Flaw Could Let Attackers Spy on Victims"Instagram contained a critical security flaw that could have allowed malicious actors to perform remote code execution. According to Check Point researchers, the exploitation of this flaw involves sending a specially sized image file to a victim's device…
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"Phishers Are Targeting Employees With Fake GDPR Compliance Reminders"Adversaries are starting to use bogus General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance reminders to trick employees of businesses across several industries into giving out their email login credentials. If a user clicks on the link in the…
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"Researchers Discover Cyber Vulnerabilities Affecting Bluetooth Based Medical Devices"Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) discovered SweynTooth, a set of 11 critical cyber vulnerabilities that affect Bluetooth-based medical devices. These security lapses…
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"Chinese Hacking Groups Are Bullying Telecoms as 2020 Goes on, Crowdstrike Says"Recently published research from CrowdStrike reveals the targeting of entities within the telecommunications sector by six Chinese hacking groups in the first half of 2020. According to CrowdStrike, the groups' hacking operations are likely aimed at…
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"Firefox for Android Bug Allows ‘Epic Rick-Rolling’"Researchers have found a vulnerability in Firefox for Android that would allow an adversary to launch websites on a victim's phone, with no user interaction. For the adversary to exploit the bug, the attacker would need to be attached to the same…
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"Phish Scale: New Method Helps Organizations Better Train Their Employees to Avoid Phishing"Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new method to help organizations better train their employees to avoid phishing attacks. This new method is being called the Phish Scale. The Phish…
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"Mozi Botnet Accounted for Majority of IoT Traffic: IBM"According to IBM researchers, a relatively new botnet called Mozi made up 90% of the Internet of Things (IoT) network traffic observed between October 2019 and June 2020. Mozi has been effective through the use of command injection attacks, which depend…