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SoS Musings #40 - The Need for Stronger Social Media SecuritySoS Musings #40 - The Need for Stronger Social Media Security
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"University of Utah Pays $457K After Ransomware Attack"The University of Utah, which has 24,485 undergraduate students, 8,333 graduate students, and 1,592 faculty members, was hit by a cyberattack on July 19th. The adversaries used ransomware and targeted the university’s computing servers for its College of…
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Cyber Scene #47 - Thunderbolts: Cybersecurity-charged ElectionsCyber Scene #47 - Thunderbolts: Cybersecurity-charged Elections
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Cybersecurity Snapshots #9 - Organizations Need to Address Mobile SecurityCybersecurity Snapshots #9 - Organizations Need to Address Mobile Security
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Spotlight on Lablet Research #9 - Coordinated Machine Learning-Based Vulnerability and Security Patching for Resilient Virtual Computing InfrastructureSpotlight on Lablet Research #9 - Coordinated Machine Learning-Based Vulnerability and Security Patching for Resilient Virtual Computing Infrastructure
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Pub Crawl #41Pub 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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"Researchers Sound Alarm Over Malicious AWS Community AMIs"Security researchers at Mitiga have discovered that threat actors can easily build malware-laced Community Amazon Machine Images (AMI) and make them available to unsuspecting AWS customers. The researchers released details of a malicious AMI …
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"62% of Blue Teams Have Difficulty Stopping Red Teams During Adversary Simulation Exercises"New research from Exabeam shows that it is difficult for most blue teams to stop red teams during adversary simulation exercises, further highlighting the need for organizations to prioritize continuous evaluation and adjustment of security investments…
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"U.S. Cyber Command Gets New Operational Tools"New cyber-operational tools have been integrated into the U.S. Cyber Command's virtual cyber-training platform, called the Persistent Cyber Training Environment (PCTE). Cyber Command's warriors will use the new set of tools integrated into the platform…
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"Industrial (Remote) Control: RCE Vulnerabilities for ICS Suggest the Air Gap is Gasping its Last"The operational technology (OT) specialist Claroty released a new biannual threat report based on the assessment of 365 Industrial Control System (ICS) vulnerabilities published by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and 139 ICS advisories released…
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"World's Biggest Cruise Line Company Hit by Ransomware Attack"The world's largest cruise operator Carnival has disclosed that on August 15th, they suffered a ransomware attack and a possible security breach. The adversaries accessed and encrypted a portion of one brand's information technology systems, and…