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"RSAC 2019: The Dark Side of Machine Learning"Nicholas Carlini, a researcher at Google, gave an overview of the different types of adversarial attacks that can be launched against machine learning systems. These attacks could lead to the misclassification of images and sounds by machine learning…
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"Source Code Error in Swiss Post E-Voting System"Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in a Swiss e-voting system that could lead to the modification of votes. The vulnerability comes from a weak cryptographic system in which votes are verified. This article continues to discuss the flaw…
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DARPA Creates Secure Voting ProjectDARPA has funded Galois with $10 million to develop a secure voting platform based on secure systems research. These machines are two parts, an touchscreen part that prints paper receipts and an optically scan device. The votes have cryptographic…
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"Security Researchers Found over 40 Bugs in Blockchain Platforms in 30 Days"43 security vulnerabilities have been discovered in blockchain and cryptocurrency platforms by white hat hackers. These vulnerabilities were disclosed to thirteen companies via HackerOne's vulnerability disclosure platform. These vulnerabilities are said…
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"The First Look at How Hacked Self-Driving Cars Would Affect New York City Traffic"As the Internet connectivity in vehicles increases, the more susceptible cars are to being hacked and disabled. A study conducted by a team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Multiscale Systems Inc. looked into the effects that a…
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"Facebook Suffers Global Outage, Claims DDoS Not the Cause"Facebook experienced a global outage, and have began investigating what may have caused the outage. Facebook has confirmed that this outage was not caused by a DDoS attack, but could have been caused by Boarder Gateway Protocol or by other…
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"Threat Actor Targets Japanese Users With New Ursnif Variant"An attack campaign has been discovered by security researchers from Cybereason in which a new variant of the Ursnif Banking Trojan is being distributed. The campaign appears to be targeting mainly Japanese users. This article continues to discuss the…
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NIST Release Special Pub on CPS and IoTNIST released Special Publication 1900-202 on Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things.
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"'SimBad': Android Adware Hits 210 Apps with 150M Downloads"210 Android apps in the Google Play store have been discovered to contain malicious code that could allow for the compromise of Android devices by attackers to display background advertisements, open phishing websites, and more. The strain of…
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"A New World for Hackers: Acoustic Side-Channel Attack"A study conducted by researchers at the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, Riverside highlights the possibility of launching acoustic side-channel attacks on DNA synthesizing machines. The acoustic noise made by a DNA…
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"How Software Can Make an Airplane Crash"Planes are now starting to use Fly-by-Wire more often. Traveling my use of planes is safe, however as is the case where software controls hardware, there are ways things can go wrong. This could be caused by either something…
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"Marriott CEO Reveals More Details About the Massive Data Breach"The CEO of Marriott, Arne Sorenson, has revealed more details pertaining to the major data breach faced by the hotel chain. According to Sorenson, 383 million guest records and 18.5 million encrypted passport numbers were compromised as a result of the…