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"Driven by Ransomware, Cyber Claims Rise in Number & Value"The insurance company Allianz recently released a report highlighting cyberattacks and security incidents as the top business risk for companies and the rise in cyber insurance claims. According to the firm's "Trend in Cyber Risk" report, the number of…
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"Electronic Medical Records Cracked Open by OpenClinic Bugs"Researchers at Bishop Fox have discovered four vulnerabilities in the OpenClinic application used for sharing electronic medical records. Its latest version is 0.8.2 and was released in 2016. According to researchers, the four bugs involve…
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HoTSoS 2021: Poster Co-ChairsMeet the HoTSoS 2021 Team: Poster Co-Chairs Welcome our "Poster Co-Chairs" for the upcoming HoTSoS Symposium Khir Henderson (Morgan State University) and Aleecia McDonald (CMU)! About the Chairs
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"Cyber-Attack Exposes Data of 295,000 Colorado Springs Patients"AspenPointe, a nonprofit mental health and behavioral health services provider based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, experienced a cyberattack in September 2020 that resulted in the exposure of protected health information (PHI) on more than 295,000…
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HoTSoS 2021: Undergraduate Co-ChairsMeet the HoTSoS 2021 Team: Undergraduate Co-Chairs This year HoTSoS has re-vamped the Program Committee to include several new chair positions. One such inclusion is the "Undergraduate Chair" position for which Divya Amirtharaj (Harvard…
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HoTSoS 2021: Student Presentation Co-ChairsMeet the HoTSoS 2021 Team: Student Presentation Co-Chairs The HoTSoS Program Committee is happy to have a newly created "Student Presentation Chair" position, and even happier to have Julie Haney (NIST) and Hanan Hibshi (CMU) co-serving! About the…
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"Magecart Attack Convincingly Hijacks PayPal Transactions at Checkout"Researchers have recently discovered that the Magecart gang has come up with a new credit-card skimming technique for hijacking PayPal transactions during checkout just in time for the Christmas holiday shopping season. The technique uses postMessage to…
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"MacOS Backdoor Appears to Be Update of Tool Previously Used by Vietnam-Linked Group"According to Trend Micro researchers, the hacking group dubbed APT32 or OceanLotus appears to be using an updated version of a tool that can infiltrate macOS computers. The malicious software comes as a .zip file that uses a Microsoft Word Icon. It is…
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NSA and SoS Announce Winner of the 8th Paper CompetitionThe National Security Agency and Science of Security annouced that "Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution” as the winner of its 8th Annual Best Cybersecurity Research Paper competition. Originally published at the 2019 IEEE Security…
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"Security Flaw Could Allow Hackers to Trick Lab Scientists Into Making Viruses"Cybersecurity researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev demonstrated an end-to-end attack that can change data on a bioengineer's computer. As this cyberattack could meddle with DNA orders, it could lead to the development of toxins and…
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"TurkeyBombing Puts New Twist on Zoom Abuse"Cybercriminals have targeted victims with phishing emails hoping that many families would be using Zoom to call family and friends over the Thanksgiving weekend. The major phishing campaign is aimed at stealing Microsoft credentials. Threat…
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"Security Researcher Accidentally Discovers Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Zero-Day"A security researcher accidentally discovered a zero-day vulnerability that affects the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems while working on a Windows security tool. The vulnerability stems from two misconfigured registry keys for the…