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  • "Is AI In Cyber Security A New Tool For Hackers In 2019?"

    AI is being used more and more to help protect from cyberattacks.  AI uses machine learning to enhance its intelligence. To improve cybersecurity, it fills the gap of lack of skills to prevent cyber attacks. While AI can improve…

  • "Framing Supply Chain Attacks"

    As software development teams are pressured to deliver applications in a short amount of time, they often turn to open source components, code reuse, and third-party integrations, thus increasing the vulnerability of applications to cyberattacks and…

  • "DNS hijacking campaigns target Gmail, Netflix, and PayPal users"

    There is a DNS hijacking campaign that has been ongoing for the past three months.  Attackers are targeting the users of popular online services, including Gmail, Netflix, and PayPal. During the DNS hijacking, the hacker compromises …

  • "Cybersecurity Team at NAU Testing Ternary Computing to Secure Blockchain Technology for Cryptocurrency, Other Applications"

    A team of cybersecurity researchers at Northern Arizona University's (NAU) School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, has been awarded a $125,000 grant by the U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) in support of work to strengthen the security of…

  • "A Powerful Spyware App Now Targets iPhone Owners"

    According to researchers at the mobile security firm, Lookout, the powerful surveillance app that was initially designed for Android devices, called Exodus, now targets iPhones. The developer of the malicious app was able to evade the Apple app store's…

  • "Watch SwRI Engineers Trick Object Detection System"

    Engineers at Southwest Research Institute have developed new adversarial learning techniques that can make objects invisible to object detection systems in which deep-learning algorithms are used. These techniques can also be used to deceive object…

  • "Tenable Discloses Verizon Fios Router Vulnerabilities"

    Any one with a Verizon Fios Quantum Gateway router, may be at risk of cyberattacks.  Tenable was able to find multiple vulnerabilities in the Verizon Fios Quantum Gateway (G1000) router. The impact of the vulnerabilities found is…

  • HotSoS 2019 Summary Report

      Hot Topics in the Science of Security: Symposium and Bootcamp (HotSoS) 2019

  • "It’s Disturbingly Easy to Trick AI into Doing Something Deadly"

    Recent studies conducted by artificial intelligence (AI) researchers emphasize the major impacts that adversarial machine learning (ML) can have on safety. Researchers have performed adversarial attacks on machine learning systems to demonstrate how easy…

  • "Making Scalable On-Chip Security Pervasive"

    The growth of Internet of Things (IoT) is accompanied by the increase in accessible devices and the number of complex chip designs needed for their operation. The rapid growth of IoT devices calls for the advancement of chip-level security. According to…

  • "Photons Trained for Optical Fiber Obstacle Course Will Deliver Stronger Cyber Security"

    The navigation of photons in networks of optical fibers will be improved through the use of a new technique demonstrated by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singtel, Asia's leading communications group. This new approach is…

  • "TrickBot Trojan seeks out weak human links in business to profit from the tax season"

    During tax season, there is usually an increase of Phishing attacks that occur.  Many Phishing attacks this year are focused on the business segment and deployment of the TrickBot Trojan.  The phishing schemes are designed to…