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"My Thoughts Are My Password, Because My Brain Reactions Are Unique"Biometric authentication using identifiers such as fingerprints, faces, and retinas is becoming increasingly popular as these physical characteristics provide a higher level of security by being harder to replicate. However, these forms of biometric… -
"DevSecOps An Effective Fix for Software Flaws"A recent report released by Veracode, titled State of Software Security, finds that the speed at which software vulnerabilities are remedied by organizations correlates to the number of times developers scan their code for these vulnerabilities each year…
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"5G and 6G Wireless Technologies Have Security Issues"Security gaps have been discovered to be contained by 5G and 6G wireless network standards. Resent studies conducted by researchers have uncovered security vulnerabilities in these network standards that could allow attackers to perform activities such…
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"Cybercriminals Follow the News Too and Change Tactics Accordingly"Threat Vector researchers have brought attention to the adaptation of threat actors to the exposure of their operations, tools, and techniques by publications. Threat actors will continue to alter their malicious activities in an attempt to escape the…
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"New Technology from Purdue Advances Protection of Critical Systems from Insider-Assisted Attacks"A new covert defense algorithm has been developed by a team of researchers at Purdue University. The algorithm applies techniques aimed at misleading attackers in the targeting of critical systems such as nuclear plants, driverless vehicles, refineries,…
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"At Least 57 Negative Impacts from Cyber-Attacks"Cybersecurity researchers from Kent's School of Computing and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford have presented findings of a study in which they delved deeper into the negative impacts of cyberattacks. They have found at…
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"Hackers Steal Data of 75,000 Users After Healthcare.Gov FFE Breach"A HealthCare.gov sign-up system, named Federally Facilitated Exchanges (FFE), has been breached by hackers. The system is used by healthcare insurance agents and brokers to help people sign up for the coverage available on HealthCare.gov. Personal…
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"AWS FreeRTOS Vulnerabilities Could Crash IoT Devices, Warn Cyber Security Researchers"Security flaws have been discovered in an operating system that is commonly used in IoT devices. The 13 flaws discovered in the FreeRTOS operating system could allow hackers to disrupt the operations of IoT devices, leak data, and more. This article…
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"New Security Woes for Popular IoT Protocols"Researchers will provide further details on vulnerabilities contained by popular IoT protocols, Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) and the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), at Black Hat Europe 2018. According to researchers, the security…
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"Vulnerable Controllers Could Allow Attackers to Manipulate Marine Diesel Engines"Four vulnerabilities in relation to authentication and encryption have been discovered to be contained by the firmware of marine diesel engine controllers manufactured by Auto-Maskin. The exploitation of these vulnerabilities can allow attackers to…
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"Defending Against Spectre and Meltdown Attacks"A significant advancement has been made by MIT researchers in the effort to defend against Spectre and Meltdown attacks. Researchers have developed a method, called Dynamically Allocated Way Guard (DAWG), that complicates the exploitation of…
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"Threat Intelligence Computing for Efficient Cyber Threat Hunting"A cyber reasoning paradigm has been developed by IBM researchers for the purpose of establishing and easing the process of discovering cyber threats. The paradigm, called threat intelligence computing (TIC), improves upon the observation of cyber facts,…