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Anti-Virus Company manipulting virus detection to fool competitors?Reuters has a story that two ex-employees from Kaspersky Labs claiming that they submitted malicous marked benign files to fool compeitors to mark malicous good files of customers while they were employeed at Kaspersky. Whether that part is true or…
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Explaining Stagefright and the error in the PatchA bufferover flow discovered in Android April was reported to Google with a proposed fix. The name used is Stagefright and it effects 650 million android devices. However, the the patch doens't really solve the overflow. This article…
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NSA Announces Winner of the 3rd Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper CompetitionThe Research Directorate of the National Security Agency announced the winner of this year's Science of Security (SoS) Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition. Of the 50 papers nominated, one winner and two honorable mentions were chosen.…
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June 2015: Critical Infrastructures and CybersecurityThis month's edition of The Technology Innovation Management Review http://timreview.ca/issue/2015/june is focussing on critical infrastructure and cyber security.
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Design Flaw in Intel x86 enables rootkitsChristopher Domas from the Battelle Memorial Institute at Blackhat presented how to compromise the lowest level code in Intel CPUs. The bug allows malicious code to jump from 'ring 0,' typically the most privileged level of execution, to 'ring…
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New DoD Initiative Bridges Gap to Silicon ValleyThe DoD established a new center in Silicon Valley to help bridge the gap between the Pentagon and the tech world of Silicon Valley. Defense Innovation Unit–Experimental (DIU-x) was annouced in April, and in August its first leaders were annouced.…
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Blackhat News - Attack on Macs, infects firmware, bricks devicehttp://www.wired.com/2015/08/researchers-create-first-firmware-worm-attacks-macs/
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"Science of Security" Category on Jeopardy!This news tidpit is a little old, its from March 2015, but on Jeopardy! there was a category called "Science of Security." It was sponsored by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with video clues recorded there. While cybersecurity was not part…
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NSA Cybersecurity Summer Camps ProfiledThe New York Times profiled the NSA GenCyger program. This program funds organizations to hold cybersecurity summer camps for kids. Attendance is free for the students and in 2015 there are 43 camps and 1,400 campers. The Berekley Camp used…
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Highlights of the SoS Lablets Quarterly Meeting at CMUThe Science of Security (SoS) quarterly Lablet meeting, sponsored by NSA, was hosted by the Carnegie Mellon University Lablet on July 14 and 15, 2015. Quarterly meetings are held to share research, coordinate, present interim findings, and…
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Cyber Grand Challenge Finalist AnnouncedDarpa annouced the 7 finalist for the Cyber Grand Challenge with a $2 million prize.