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"Ransomware Rises Despite Law Enforcement Takedowns"According to security researchers at Mandiant, ransomware activity increased in 2023 compared to 2022 despite law enforcement operations against prominent ransomware groups, including ALPHV/BlackCat.
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"PoC Published for Exploited Check Point VPN Vulnerability"Proof-of-concept (PoC) code has recently been released for an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability affecting multiple Check Point Security Gateway iterations.
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"Police Dismantle Pirated TV Streaming Network That Made $5.7 Million"Spanish police have recently dismantled a network of illegal media content distribution that, since the start of its operations in 2015, has made over $5,700,000.
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"Enhancing Cybersecurity with 'Moving Trees'"Jianying Zhou, a professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), and his team propose a tree-inspired One-Time Password (OTP) scheme that supports changing user environments as well as provides security and privacy.
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"Your Internet-Connected Home Devices Could Be Compromising Your Security. BYU Computer Engineers Have a Solution"Phil Lundrigan, a computer engineering professor at Brigham Young University (BYU), and a team of students have developed an in-between option that grants partial trust and enables consumers to connect basic Internet of Things (IoT) devices to their ho
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"Flawed AI Tools Create Worries for Private LLMs, Chatbots"According to experts, companies that use private instances of Large Language Models (LLMs) to make business data searchable through a conversational interface risk data poisoning and leakage if they do not harden their platforms.
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"59% of Public Sector Apps Carry Long-Standing Security Flaws"According to Veracode, public sector apps have more security debt than private sector apps. Security debt is defined as flaws that remain unfixed for more than a year. Fifty-nine percent of apps in the public sector have security debt.
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"Phishing Kit Trends and the Top 10 Spoofed Brands of 2023"According to the 2024 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, phishing made up 30 percent of incidents last year, showing that it is still one of the top initial access vectors.
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"AI Browser Plug-Ins to Help Consumers Improve Digital Privacy Literacy, Combat Manipulative Design"Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to help consumers understand online exploitation. Increasing end users' digital literacy helps them better control their website interactions.
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"How Researchers Are Protecting AI of the Future"Dr. Samson Zhou, assistant professor at Texas A&M University's Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Dr. David P.
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"New Partnership Uses AI to Bolster Efficiency, Cybersecurity for Water Treatment"Feras Batarseh, an associate professor in Virginia Tech's Department of Biological Systems Engineering, and his team of researchers work with the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative in the greater Washington, DC, metro area, as well as in Blacksburg, where t