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  • "Simple Hardware to Defend Microgrid Attacks"

    Small-scale renewable energy systems have the advantage of being able to be set up into networks that, when necessary, can run independently of the primary electric grid. KAUST researchers are now creating strategies to defend these networks, known as…

  • "Electrical Engineering Doctoral Student Mohammadamin Moradi Uses Deep-Q Learning to Find and Combat Power Grid Cybersecurity Weaknesses"

    As power grids become more reliant on computer-based systems, they become more vulnerable to cyberattacks. Mohammadamin Moradi, an electrical engineering doctoral student at Arizona State University (ASU), used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to analyze the…

  • "Abuse of Privilege Enabled Long-Term DIB Organization Hack"

    The US Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) responded to an advanced cyberattack on a Defense Industrial Base (DIB) organization's network from November 2021 to January 2022. During that time, Advanced…

  • "Census Bureau Comes up Short Against 'Red Team' Attack"

    According to a new report by the Commerce Department Office of Inspector General (IG), a team of government-contracted red team hackers gained unauthorized and undetected control of critical Census Bureau systems in a simulated attack test, which…

  • "New CLI Tool Allows Java Devs to Add 'Fuzzing' to JUnit"

    Code Intelligence, a provider of automated testing tools, has released CI Fuzz CLI, an open-source Command-Line Interface (CLI) tool that allows Java developers to incorporate fuzz testing into their existing JUnit setups. JUnit is an open-source, Java-…

  • "Delta Electronics Patches Serious Flaws in Industrial Networking Devices"

    Taiwan-based Delta Electronics has recently patched potentially serious vulnerabilities in two of its industrial networking products.  Security researchers at CyberDanube discovered the flaws in Delta's DX-2100-L1-CN 3G cloud router and the DVW-…

  • "Hackers Target Colombia's Healthcare System With Ransomware"

    Colombian healthcare provider Keralty recently reported a ransomware attack that affected its systems and two of its subsidiaries: EPS Sanitas and Colsanitas.  The attack disrupted the companies' IT operations, websites, and scheduling of medical…

  • "Researchers Found Security Pitfalls in IBM's Cloud Infrastructure"

    Security researchers investigated IBM Cloud's Database-as-a-Service (DaaS) infrastructure and discovered several security flaws that gave them access to the internal server used to build database images for customer deployments. The demonstrated attack…

  • "WhatsApp Files on Dark Web Show Millions of Records For Sale"

    In mid-November, a threat actor posting on a dark web forum claimed to have stolen the personal information of almost 500 million WhatsApp users.  Recently, Check Point Research (CPR) has published a new advisory analyzing the exposed files and…

  • "These File Types Are the Ones Most Commonly Used by Hackers to Hide Their Malware"

    According to an analysis of real-world cyberattacks and data collected from millions of PCs, ZIP and RAR files have surpassed Microsoft Office documents as the most commonly used file types by cybercriminals to deliver malware. Based on customer data…

  • Pub Crawl #68

    ​Pub 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.

  • "Hackers Dump Australian Health Data Online, Declare Case Closed"

    In November, hackers demanded health insurer Medibank pay US$9.7 million to keep the records stolen off the internet, or one dollar for each of the company's impacted customers, which included Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.   Medibank refused to…