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"Catching The Man-in-the-Middle"Dr. Santosh Ganji, a computer engineering doctoral graduate, and Dr. P.R. Kumar, a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at Texas A&M University, are working on improving wireless network security.
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"Cybersecurity Spending Expected to be Slashed in 41% of SMEs"According to security researchers at JumpCloud, cybersecurity spending is predicted to be cut by 41% of SMEs over the coming year amid the challenging economic environment.
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"How Are State-Sponsored Threat Actors Leveraging AI?"Microsoft and OpenAI have pointed out the different ways in which state-sponsored threat actors have attempted to use Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve their cyber operations.
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12th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper CompetitionNominations are now open for the 12th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition.
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"German Battery Maker Varta Halts Production After Cyberattack"Battery maker VARTA AG was recently targeted by a cyberattack that forced it to shut down IT systems, causing production to stop at its plants.
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"Just One Bad Packet Can Bring down a Vulnerable DNS Server Thanks to DNSSEC"Through the exploitation of a 20-year-old design flaw dubbed KeyTrap in the DNSSEC specification, one packet can exhaust a vulnerable DNS server's processing capacity, effectively disabling the machine.
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"NSA Awards Authors of Study of Automated Attacks on New Webservers"The National Security Agency (NSA) Research Directorate selected "Uninvited Guests: Analyzing the Identity and Behavior of Certificate Transparency Bots" as the 11th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition winner.
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"Zoom Patches Critical Vulnerability in Windows Applications"Video messaging giant Zoom recently announced patches for seven vulnerabilities in its desktop and mobile applications, including a critical severity bug in Windows software.
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"Computer Science Ph.D. Student Awarded Prestigious Best Paper Award at IEEE Conference"A student at Oklahoma State University received the Best Paper Award at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Consumer Communications and Networking Conference for his paper, "A Lightweight Aggregate Authentication Protocol
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"SAP Patches Critical Vulnerability Exposing User, Business Data"Enterprise software maker SAP has recently announced the release of 13 new and three updated security notes as part of its February 2024 Security Patch Day, including one addressing a critical vulnerability in the SAP ABA cross-application component.
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"Tech Professor Leads Artificial Intelligence and Security Research"Maanak Gupta, a computer science assistant professor at Tennessee Tech University, and his team of students are leading innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) research on using early detection and adaptive response strategies to protect systems
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"Glupteba Botnet Evades Detection with Undocumented UEFI Bootkit"The Glupteba botnet uses a previously undocumented Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit feature, increasing the sophistication of the malware.