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  • "Google Research: Most Hacker-For-Hire Services Are Frauds"

    According to new research conducted by Google and academics at the University of California, San Diego, most hacker-for-hire services offered online are fraudulent and unsuccessful. The research conducted behind this discovery involved engaging with 27…

  • "Industrial Robotics - Are You Increasing Your Cybersecurity Risk?"

    Industrial robots have been used to support product manufacturing, productivity, and safety. Though there has not been a wave of cyberattacks against industrial robots that we know of, such robots are expected to become a more attractive target for…

  • "Researchers: Aircraft Landing Systems Vulnerable"

    Researchers from Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston have demonstrated the vulnerability of aircraft landing systems to spoofing attacks, which could be launched by attackers to misguide planes into missing runways.…

  • "How effective are login challenges at preventing Google account takeovers?"

      Despite the increased use of  implementation of bugs that might affect the security of physical security keys, Google argues that physical security keys are still the strongest protection against phishing currently…

  • "Lack of Secure Coding Called a National Security Threat"

    The lack of secure coding is a pervasive and serious threat to national security. In order to fix the problem of coders not performing secure coding, one needs to come up with an objective standard, and a legislative mandate that requires a…

  • "Bluetooth's Complexity Has Become a Security Risk"

    Bluetooth security vulnerabilities arise on account of the protocol's complexity. The documentation for the Bluetooth standard is significantly longer and more comprehensive than the material provided for other wireless protocols, making it increasingly…

  • "EU Approves Cyber-Attack Sanctions Ahead of Election"

    The European Union (EU) has agreed upon the enforcement of new cyber sanctions that would penalize cyberattackers by freezing their assets and banning them from traveling. The aim of the automatic set of sanctions is to discourage the future launch of…

  • "Will the U.S. Government Draft Cybersecurity Professionals?"

    The National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service, is considering modernizing the Selective Service System (SSS) to include the possible conscription of those that are highly skilled in cybersecurity. One of the goals of this modification…

  • Winners of the 2019 NSA Research Directorate Awards at ISEF 2019

    Phoenix, AZ - On Thrusday Night, May 16, 2019, The National Security Agency Executive Director, Mr. Harry Coker, and NSA Researcher and Science of Security and Privacy (SoS) Technical Lead, Dr. Adam Tagert, presented the NSA Research Directorate Awards…

  • "How to Break Our Bad Online Security Habits – with a Flashing Cyber Nudge"

    Cyberattacks continue to rise as a result of human error, the growing complexity of technology, and the increasing sophistication of attack methods. It is important that methods for encouraging good cybersecurity behaviors continue to be explored and…

  • "Unsecured Survey Database Exposes Info of 8 Million People"

    An independent security researcher, named Sanyam Jain, discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch database, which exposed personal information belonging to 8 million people who have responded to online surveys, entered sweepstakes, and requested free product…

  • "Blockchains Are Being Exploited by Bots for Profit"

    New research conducted at Cornell Tech brings attention to the exploitation of weaknesses in blockchains by attackers through the use of bots for the purpose of gaining profit. The blockchain is a decentralized distributed ledger used to process and…