Anna Scherbina, an associate professor of finance at Brandeis International Business School, served as a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) from 2017 to 2019. CEA is responsible for advising the president of the United States on…

The financially-motivated, advanced persistent (APT) hacking group, FIN7, has stolen an estimate of $1 billion over the years by stealing payment card data from hotels, fast-food restaurants, and other organizations around the world. In recent months,…

Security researchers from McAfee were able to trick Tesla's first-generation Autopilot into speeding up by modifying a speed limit sign with stickers and tape. They found that by placing a 2-inch piece of black electrical tape across the middle of the 3…

A major security breach has been discovered that has hit MGM Resorts. Researchers found personal details of guests on a hacking forum this week. The stolen data belonged to regular tourists, celebrities, tech CEOs, and government officials. The leaked…

Spotlight on Lablet Research #3 - Project: Predicting the Difficulty of Compromise through How Attackers Discover Vulnerabilities 

Winter 2020 Lablet Quarterly Meeting        

The physical hardware in which computationally secure encryption algorithms are implemented may leak sensitive information through electromagnetic radiation. Electromagnetic attacks pose a threat to edge devices that use limited resources, symmetric key…

Engineers at Rice University have developed a technique that can significantly increase the security of the Internet of Things (IoT). The method introduced by Kaiyuan Yang, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice's Brown…

Researchers at Proofpoint found that since it is tax season, the number of e-mail based scams are increasing. One, in particular, uses the legitimate app TeamViewer to take over victims’ systems.  Other email-based attacks this year leverage more…

A US gas pipeline operator has been hit with ransomware, encrypting data on its information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) networks. The ransomware impacted human-machine interfaces (HMIs), data historians, and polling servers. As a…

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's (BGU) Cyber Security Research Center projected "phantom" images on the road and a digital billboard to fool the autopilot of an autonomous vehicle into applying its brakes, following fake traffic signs…

Researchers from Eclypsium, have discovered new firmware vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi adapters, USB hubs, trackpads, and cameras that are putting millions of peripheral devices in danger of a range of cyberattacks.  Most of the vulnerabilities found are…