Faculty and students from CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University's security and privacy research institute, will present on various topics at the 31st Annual Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium.

According to the Cybersecurity and Information Systems Information Analysis Center (CSIAC), the average code sample has 6,000 defects per million lines of code, with the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) discoveri

Cyberattacks are increasing, posing a risk of stolen personal data for 400 million users and prompting US governments to introduce Breach Notification Laws (BNLs). These laws require companies to notify consumers if their data has been breached.

Google launched the AI Cyber Defense Initiative to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve cybersecurity and reverse the "Defender's Dilemma".

Threat actors are using Amazon Web Services Simple Notification Service (AWS SNS) and a custom bulk-messaging spam script called SNS Sender in an ongoing "smishing" campaign that impersonates the US Postal Service.

Multiple cryptocurrency sector companies are being targeted in an ongoing malware campaign involving a newly discovered Apple macOS backdoor called RustDoor.

Security researchers have discovered that the Alpha ransomware payload and modus operandi overlap with the now-defunct NetWalker ransomware operation. NetWalker was a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) active between October 2019 and January 2021.

A Los Angeles man accused of running a "booter" service that facilitated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks has been charged in federal court.

Twenty-seven percent of countries holding national elections in 2024 face the highest cyber threat levels, with multiple priority adversary groups and many state-backed groups linked to priority adversary countries.

Ukrainian national Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, one of the heads of the notorious JabberZeus cybercrime gang, has recently pleaded guilty to charges related to his leadership roles in the Zeus and IcedID malware groups.

The US government recently neutralized another small office/home office (SOHO) router botnet used by Russian cyberspies in malware campaigns.

According to security researchers at LMG Security, three vulnerabilities in the CU Solutions Group (CUSG) content management system (CMS) could have been exploited by hackers in attacks aimed at credit unions.