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  • "New Tool Could Reduce Security Analysts' Workloads by Automating Data Triage"

    A new tool aimed at improving the performance of security analysts has been developed by researchers at Penn State and the U.S. Army Research Office. The tool reduces security analysts' workloads by automatically assigning degrees of urgency to…

  • "New Dragonblood Vulnerabilities Found in Wi-Fi WPA3 Standard"

    Earlier this year, security researchers named Mathy Vanhoef and Eyal Ronen uncovered critical design flaws in the Wi-Fi security and authentication standard, Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3), which they dubbed Dragonblood vulnerabilities. Vanhoef and…

  • "Cyberattacks Against Industrial Targets Have Doubled Over the Last 6 Months"

    It has been discovered that cyberattacks designed to cause damage have doubled in the past six months, and 50 percent of organizations affected are in the manufacturing sector.  IBM reports that during the first half of 2019 the use of …

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  • "Warning over Boom in Web Skimming Cyber Crime Targeting Online Stores"

    The security firm, Malwarebytes, has issued a warning to ecommerce companies about an increase in Magecart attacks that target online payments systems. Magecart is made up of sophisticated hacking groups that perform web-based card-skimming attacks to…

  • "Hacking Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities"

    Internet-connected cars are more vulnerable to being hacked and disabled. A study conducted by a team of  physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Multiscale Systems Inc. looked into the effects that a large-scale hack on Internet-…

  • "How to Reduce the Risk Posed by Vulnerable Mobile Apps"

    Findings of a recent study on the vulnerabilities contained by mobile apps for Android and iOS, call for the bolstering of mobile security. Inadequate mobile security poses a risk to the security and privacy of individuals and organizations as more…

  • "Teenage Hackers Are Offered a Second Chance Under European Experiment"

    A legal intervention campaign aimed at giving young first-time cybercrime offenders a second chance, called Hack_Right, has been created by police in the U.K. and the Netherlands. The effort is geared towards people between the ages of 12 and 23 who are…

  • "Companies Struggle With the Slow, Unpredictable Nature of AI Projects"

    AI is becoming more frequently used in every day businesses.  Even though AI is increasingly in use throughout the modern enterprise, many organizations will be unable to realize the full potential of their deployments until they find faster…

  • "One Million Bank Phone Calls Found in Exposed Server"

    An independent researcher has the discovered the exposure of an Amazon S3 bucket that contains data belonging to Bank of Cardiff. This data contains more than one million audio recordings of phone calls made by the bank's employees. Some of the phone…

  • "Capital One Breach Also Hit Other Major Companies, Say Researchers"

    Researchers at the security firm, CyberInt, say that the recent data breach faced by Capitol One may affect other major organizations, including Vodafone, Ford, Michigan State University and the Ohio Department of Transportation. Slack messages sent by…

  • "Tech Companies Not Doing Enough to Protect Users from Phishing Scams"

    Academics from Plymouth's Center for Security, Communications, and Network (CSCAN) Research conducted a study in which they examined the effectiveness of phishing filters in different email providers. The majority of potential phishing messages used in…