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Pub Crawl #35Pub Crawl summarizes, by hard problems, sets of publications that have been peer reviewed and presented at SoS conferences or referenced in current work. The topics are chosen for their usefulness for current researchers.
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"Cloud-Enabled Threats are on the Rise, Sensitive Data is Moving Between Cloud Apps"In a new study, researchers found that 89 percent of enterprise users are in the cloud, actively using at least one cloud app every day. Overall, the average enterprise uses over 2,400 distinct cloud services and apps. The top 5 cloud app categories used…
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NSA SoS Researcher Wins AwardNSA Researcher, a familiar face at SoS meeting, Dr. Ahmad Ridley was presented with the 2020 Black Engineer of the Year Science Spectrum Trailblazer Award. “Hopefully, I, as an African American male in STEM, can inspire students who do not often see…
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"How Bad Are Cyberattacks for the Economy? This Professor Helped the White House Assess the Damage"Anna Scherbina, an associate professor of finance at Brandeis International Business School, served as a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) from 2017 to 2019. CEA is responsible for advising the president of the United States on…
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"Can Software Vendors Block a Notorious Criminal Group's Attacks? MITRE Wants to Find Out"The financially-motivated, advanced persistent (APT) hacking group, FIN7, has stolen an estimate of $1 billion over the years by stealing payment card data from hotels, fast-food restaurants, and other organizations around the world. In recent months,…
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"How a Little Electrical Tape Can Trick a Tesla Into Speeding"Security researchers from McAfee were able to trick Tesla's first-generation Autopilot into speeding up by modifying a speed limit sign with stickers and tape. They found that by placing a 2-inch piece of black electrical tape across the middle of the 3…
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"Hackers Expose Personal Details of 10 million MGM Hotel Guests"A major security breach has been discovered that has hit MGM Resorts. Researchers found personal details of guests on a hacking forum this week. The stolen data belonged to regular tourists, celebrities, tech CEOs, and government officials. The leaked…
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Spotlight on Lablet Research #3 - Predicting the Difficulty of Compromise through How Attackers Discover VulnerabilitiesSpotlight on Lablet Research #3 - Project: Predicting the Difficulty of Compromise through How Attackers Discover Vulnerabilities
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"Mixed-Signal Hardware Security Thwarts Powerful Electromagnetic Attacks"The physical hardware in which computationally secure encryption algorithms are implemented may leak sensitive information through electromagnetic radiation. Electromagnetic attacks pose a threat to edge devices that use limited resources, symmetric key…
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"Rice Boosts 'Internet of Things' Security — Again"Engineers at Rice University have developed a technique that can significantly increase the security of the Internet of Things (IoT). The method introduced by Kaiyuan Yang, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice's Brown…
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"Latest Tax Scams Target Apps and Tax-Prep Websites"Researchers at Proofpoint found that since it is tax season, the number of e-mail based scams are increasing. One, in particular, uses the legitimate app TeamViewer to take over victims’ systems. Other email-based attacks this year leverage more…