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"Office of Naval Research Awards $4.7M for Cyber-Physical Security and Resilience"Four engineering professors at the University of Rhode Island have received a $4.7 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to improve the security and resilience of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled power grids, secure manufacturing en
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"Speedy, Secure, Sustainable — That's the Future of Telecom"A new study led by University of Maryland (UMD) researchers, in collaboration with researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has discovered technologies that could enable energy-efficient information proce
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"GhostStripe Attack Haunts Self-Driving Cars by Making Them Ignore Road Signs"A team of researchers from Singapore-based universities has proven the possibility of interfering with autonomous vehicles through their reliance on camera-based computer vision and making them miss road signs.
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"Cyberattack Disrupts Christie’s $840M Art Auctions"A cyberattack has disrupted Christie’s auction house’s attempts to sell art and other high-value items worth an estimated $840m.
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"D-Link Routers Vulnerable to Takeover Via Exploit for Zero-Day"Researchers found a zero-day security flaw in a family of D-Link routers that enables attackers to hijack devices and execute commands with root privileges.
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"Data Breaches in US Schools Exposed 37.6M Records"Since 2005, US educational institutions have had 3,713 data breaches, affecting about 37.6 million records. According to Comparitech, 2023 saw a record 954 breaches, up from 139 in 2022 and 783 in 2021. Over 800 institutions w
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"Turla Group Deploys LunarWeb and LunarMail Backdoors in Diplomatic Missions"Two previously undocumented backdoors, "LunarWeb" and "LunarMail," targeted an unnamed European Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and its three diplomatic missions in the Middle East.
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"900k Impacted by Data Breach at Mississippi Healthcare Provider"Mississippi healthcare provider Singing River Health System (SRHS) recently notified roughly 900,000 individuals that their personal information was compromised in an August 2023 ransomware attack.
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"How Attackers Deliver Malware to Foxit PDF Reader Users"According to Check Point researchers, threat actors are exploiting Foxit PDF Reader's flawed alerts to deliver malware via booby-trapped PDFs.
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"NIST Finalizes Updated Guidelines for Protecting Sensitive Information"The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalized its updated guidelines for protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in two publications titled "Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Syste
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"Female Health Apps Misuse Highly Sensitive Data, Study Finds"New research from King's College London and University College London (UCL) delved into the poor data handling practices followed by apps designed for female health monitoring, which put users at risk of privacy and safety issues.
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"FBI Seize BreachForums Hacking Forum Used to Leak Stolen Data"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized BreachForums, a forum that leaked and sold corporate data to cybercriminals. The seizure follows the leak of Europol law enforcement portal data on the website. BreachForums