"300,000 Impacted by Data Breach at Car Rental Firm Avis"

"300,000 Impacted by Data Breach at Car Rental Firm Avis"

Avis Car Rental recently started notifying close to 300,000 individuals that their personal information was stolen in an August 2024 data breach.  The company said the incident was discovered on August 5 when it flagged unauthorized access to one of its business applications.  Avis says it immediately took steps to contain the attack and notified the relevant authorities.

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"Two Indicted in US for Running Dark Web Marketplaces Offering Stolen Information"

"Two Indicted in US for Running Dark Web Marketplaces Offering Stolen Information"

The US recently indicted a Kazakhstani national and a Russian national for operating several dark web sites facilitating the trading of personal, payment card, and banking information.  According to the Department of Justice (DoJ), the two, Alex Khodyrev, 35, of Kazakhstan, and Pavel Kublitskii, 37, of Russia, were the main administrators of wwh-club.ws (WWH Club) and several sister websites between 2014 and 2024.

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Syntax-Guided Synthesis (SyGuS) with LLM and Predicate Sub-Typing 

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Syntax-Guided Synthesis (SyGuS) with LLM and Predicate Sub-Typing

Stéphane Graham-Lengrand, Formal Methods Group, CSL, SRI International

The emergence of generative AI, specifically LLMs, undoubtedly opens up exciting possibilities for the automated production of code.  It also raises new assurance challenges regarding the properties of the produced code, starting with the correctness of the code with respect to its intended purpose. We propose a code synthesis approach where Formal Methods guide the LLM output towards a provably correct code.

Cyberpsychology Aspects of Foreign Malign Influence

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Cyberpsychology Aspects of Foreign Malign Influence

Mia Bloom, International Security Fellow at the New America and Professor at Georgia State University
Sophia Moskalenko, Psychologist, Security ConsultantUN Office of Counter-Terrorism, International Hub for Behavioral Insights

This project  proposes  basic  research  offering  innovative, interdisciplinary insights into the processes that connect online and offline Russian malign disinformation campaigns and threats to national security.

"High School Student Looks to Biology to Explore New Cybersecurity Pathways at ORNL"

"High School Student Looks to Biology to Explore New Cybersecurity Pathways at ORNL"

Elton Aba, a junior at Bearden High School in Knoxville and intern at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), worked with researchers to explore how biology can inform cybersecurity. Aba shared some of his discoveries regarding the potential of biomimicry to help secure US critical infrastructure. Aba collaborated with senior cyber researcher Nate Evans on a bio-inspired cybersecurity approach to system defense. With a focus on the similarities between biological and artificial defense systems, Aba and Evans sought to gain further insight into defending against a cyberattack.

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"UCI Team Collaborates on $15M Grant to Secure Cyber-Physical Systems"

"UCI Team Collaborates on $15M Grant to Secure Cyber-Physical Systems"

A team of security researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), Arizona State University (ASU), and Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) received a three-year $15 million grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in support of the multi-institutional "Strategic Exploration, Navigation and Patching of Abstracted Integrations" (SENPAI) project.

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