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  • "The Department of National Defense Awards Concordia Researcher $1M to Develop New Strategies Against Cyberattacks"

    The Royal Canadian Navy's ships are becoming increasingly vulnerable to targeted cyberattacks. These can impact the safety and integrity of assets, as well as the ability of decision-makers to use them. Researchers at Concordia University have received a…

  • "Human Side of Cybersecurity: An Empirical Study"

    A new study published in the International Journal of Business Information Systems examines the human side of cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is typically thought to be primarily about firewalls, antivirus software, spam filters, and Distributed Denial-of-…

  • "Google Won a Lawsuit Against the Glupteba Botnet Operators"

    Google has announced the successful conclusion of a nearly year-long legal battle with the Glupteba botnet, a highly sophisticated botnet comprised of millions of compromised Windows devices. Glupteba, unlike other botnets, uses cryptocurrency…

  • "Major Security Breach From Business Users' Low-Code Apps Could Come in 2023, Analysts Warn"

    Forrester analysts recently warned of a possible major security breach at a large enterprise in 2023 caused by business users employing low-code/no-code (LCNC). The first part of this prediction is a common industry assumption that it would be unusual to…

  • "Watchdog: Agency Overseeing Cybersecurity for Offshore Energy Falling Short"

    According to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federal enforcement office that oversees more than 1,600 offshore oil and gas facilities has done little to address growing cybersecurity risks. GAO highlighted that the…

  • "Preparing for Quantum Cryptography, US Air Force Partners up With SandboxAQ"

    As researchers predict that quantum computers will be able to decrypt public key algorithms as early as 2030, organizations are under increasing pressure to develop quantum-resistant algorithms to protect their data from threat actors. The US Air Force…

  • "Rise of Security Champions: Application Development's Long-Awaited Evolution"

    Application development can be related to Newton's Third Law of Motion, which states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Developers want to develop, but it appears that whenever they want to do so, application security teams…

  • "A Third of Global Organizations Were Breached Over Seven Times in the Past Year"

    Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered that 32% of global organizations have had customer records compromised multiple times over the past 12 months as they struggle to profile and defend an expanding attack surface.  The researchers…

  • "How One State's Phishing Training Evolves With Threats"

    According to a leading technology official, employee training must continue to evolve to keep up with cybercriminals' new tactics if state governments are to stay ahead of the latest phishing threats. Hemant Jain, CISO at the Indiana Office of Technology…

  • "Critical Infrastructure's Open-Source Problem"

    According to Synopsis research, 78 percent of code in codebases is open-source. Of the codebases, 81 percent have at least one vulnerability. When the code is left untouched for two years with no feature updates, that figure rises to 88 percent. Open-…

  • "PoC Code Published for High-Severity macOS Sandbox Escape Vulnerability"

    Security researchers at Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) have published details and proof-of-concept (PoC) code for a macOS vulnerability that could be exploited to escape a sandbox and execute code within Terminal.  Tracked as CVE-2022-26696…

  • "Ten Charged in $11m Healthcare BEC Plots"

    Ten individuals have recently been charged with a series of business email compromise (BEC) and money laundering offenses, in which they allegedly defrauded Medicaid, Medicare, and private health insurance programs to the tune of over $11m.  The…