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"Programming Languages: How Google Is Improving C++ Memory Safety"Google's Chrome team is exploring the use of heap scanning to decrease memory-related security flaws in Chrome's C++ codebase, but the method takes up a lot of memory unless newer ARM hardware is used. Google cannot simply replace Chrome's existing… -
"Identity-Based Attacks on Organizations Surged in 2021"Identity-based attacks and living-off-the-land (LotL) behaviors were the top two threats to organizations in 2021, according to a report recently released by Blumira. The new data was derived from an analysis of Blumira's security detections across 230…
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"What is Keeping Automotive Software Developers up at Night?"Security researchers at Perforce Software released the results of its annual State of Automotive Software Development survey conducted in partnership with Automotive IQ. Close to 600 automotive development professionals across the globe provided…
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"Survey Evidences Leaders Lack Confidence in Cyber-Risk Management"Security researchers at Marsh have discovered that leaders of cybersecurity, IT, risk management, insurance, and finance companies are losing confidence in the ability of their organizations to ward off ransomware attacks. The researchers surveyed…
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"BlackCat/ALPHV Ransomware Asks $5 Million to Unlock Austrian State"The BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, has targeted the Austrian federal state Carinthia, demanding $5 million to unlock encrypted computer systems. The threat actor allegedly locked thousands of workstations during the attack, causing…
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"A Quarter of World's Internet Users Rely on Infrastructure That Is Susceptible to Attack"A large-scale study conducted by computer scientists at the University of California San Diego found that nearly a quarter of the world's Internet users reside in countries more vulnerable than previously thought to attacks on Internet infrastructure.…
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"Verifiable Searchable Symmetric Encryption for Conjunctive Keyword Queries in Cloud Storage"Searchable Symmetric Encryption (SSE) enables secure outsourcing of encrypted databases to cloud storage, while maintaining searchable features. Most of the various SSE schemes assume the server is honest but curious, while the server could be trustless…
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"Report Explores Child’s Data Safety Legislation Across 50 Countries"Comparitech has released a new report exploring legislation about child data collection in the world’s top 50 countries by gross domestic product (GDP). The researchers assessed 23 different aspects of these policies to assess whether specific…
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"Exposed: The Threat Actors Who Are Poisoning Facebook"Cybernews researchers' investigation of the Facebook 'Is That You?' video phishing scam, which has been active since 2017, has resulted in the discovery of a 'cybercriminal stronghold.' Every day, threat actors perform this phishing scam to infect the…
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"Most Organizations do Not Follow Data Backup Best Practices"Security researchers at Apricorn announced new findings from a survey, which revealed that while the majority of organizations have data backup plans in place, data for many are at risk. The researchers surveyed almost 400 veteran IT security…
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"Multiple Flights Across India Grounded After SpiceJet Airline Hit With Ransomware"India's SpiceJet airline has revealed that its systems were hit with a ransomware attack, delaying flights and leaving many stranded at airports. According to SpiceJet, the incident impacted several flights, specifically at airports where restrictions…
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"Cyber Authority Issues Warning About New Ransomware Attack on Smart Cash Registers"The Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) has issued a warning to retailers across the country about a new and pervasive cyber ransomware attack targeting smart cash register software, which is said to be difficult to detect. According to the INCD,…