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  • "Client-Side DNS Attack Emerges From Academic Research"

    A new DNS poisoning attack that targets the client-side DNS cache has been presented by a team of researchers. The attack can be launched through the exploitation of a vulnerability in mDNSResponder. Researchers successfully demonstrated the attack on…

  • "New TLS Encryption-Busting Attack Also Impacts the Newer TLS 1.3"

    A new variation of the original Bleichenbacher oracle attack has been discovered by a team of researchers, which is capable of breaking encrypted TLS traffic. According to researchers, the attack can be used against the newest version of the TLS…

  • "Artificial Intelligence to Make Life Harder for Hackers"

    A tool, named DeepCode, has been developed by researchers to further complicate the infiltration of networks by hackers. DeepCode uses neural networks to help identify software vulnerabilities that could be exploited by cybercriminals to enter…

  • "Quantifying How Much Quantum Information Can Be Eavesdropped"

    A new study conducted by a team of Chinese physicists aims to improve upon the reliability of the process in which quantum secrets are shared. Current findings of this study in relation to the distributions of entanglement in multi-qubit systems can be…

  • "Why U.S. Firms Are Less Cyber-Secure Than They Think"

    The results of a survey conducted by Ovum to which five hundred senior executives, most of which are IT managers, responded, show that there is great confidence in the sufficiency of cyber defenses implemented by companies. This article continues to…

  • "Thousands of Industrial Refrigerators Can Be Remotely Defrosted, Thanks to Default Passwords"

    Over 7,000 internet-connected industrial refrigerators are vulnerable to being remotely instructed by malicious actors to defrost. The temperature controlled systems of these refrigerators are able to be found and controlled via the use of the Shodan…

  • "'SpeakUp' Backdoor Trojan Could Spell Further Trouble for Linux Servers"

    Check Point researchers have reported the discovery of a new back door Trojan, called SpeakUP, which affects six different Linux distributions. SpeakUp has been found by researchers to be targeting servers primarily located in East Asia and Latin America…

  • "Flaw in Multiple Airline Systems Exposes Passenger Data"

    Eight airlines have been found to contain security flaws in their e-ticketing systems. According to security researchers at Wandera, these e-ticketing systems lack encryption, allowing for the exposure of personally identifiable information (PII) to…

  • "Restaurant Chain Huddle House Hacked in Point-Of-Sale Attack"

    Huddle House, a fast food chain, has fallen victim to a point-of-sale (POS) attack. In an advisory recently released by Huddle House, it is stated that the restaurant chain's POS systems were infected with malware through the compromise and use of a…

  • "Hacker Discovers a MacOS Exploit That Is Able to Access System Passwords"

    A security researcher, named Linus Henze, has discovered a vulnerability in the latest version of MacOS Mojave, which could be exploited by hackers to access passwords stored in Keychain. Keychain is Apple's password management system. This article…

  • "NSF Awards Researchers $1M to Improve Cybersecurity of Medical Data"

    A team of researchers led by Professor Yan Luo of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell was awarded a $1 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in support of strengthening the…

  • "Google Releases Chrome Extension That Alerts Users of Breached Passwords"

    A new Google Chrome Extension has been released, which aims to warn users of unsafe passwords. The Chrome browser extension called, Password Checkup, checks if credentials used to log into different websites have been exposed in past data breaches. This…