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  • HoTSoS 2022 Best Poster Award

    HOTSOS 2022 BEST POSTER AWARD Congratulations to Samin Yaseer Mahmud & William Enck at NCSU for winning the HoTSoS Best Poster Award for their poster A Study of Security Weakness in Android Payment Service Provider SDKs.  Check out…

  • "Employee Info Among 13 Million Records Leaked by Fox"

    A team at Website Planet has found that a configuration error exposed millions of internal records traced back to Fox News, including personally identifiable information on employees.  The researchers claimed that anyone with an internet connection…

  • "Block Warns Eight Million Customers of Insider Breach"

    A leading US payments company is contacting over eight million current and former customers of its Cash App Investing subsidiary that a malicious insider may have accessed their details.  San Francisco-headquartered Block revealed the news in an SEC…

  • "New Technique Offers Faster Security for Non-Volatile Memory Tech"

    Researchers at North Carolina (NC) State University have developed a new method that uses hardware and software to strengthen file system security for next-generation memory technologies called Non-Volatile Memories (NVMs). Their encryption technique…

  • "Building Stronger and Faster Blockchains"

    A team of researchers has developed an algorithm, which is a new Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) consensus protocol, to improve the resiliency, efficiency, and speed of blockchains. The new BFT consensus protocol can overcome faults and avoid system…

  • "Detecting Distributed Denial of Service Attacks - Deep Learning-Based Distributed Denial-Of-Service Detection"

    A new study in the International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organizations explores the use of deep learning to detect Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, which could help service providers lessen the effects of these attacks. According…

  • Science of Security and Privacy 2022 Annual Report

    The Science of Security and Privacy 2022 Annual Report is now available. This report highlights the progress and accomplishments of the Science of Security and Privacy initiative.      

  • "Cyber and Physical Security Should Collaborate: What Does It Take to Achieve This"

    Organizations have become increasingly dependent on Internet-based technologies for building management systems, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, operational technology, and other physical assets. These technologies introduce new security…

  • "Pitt Electrical and Computer Engineers Uncover Hardware Security Vulnerability on Android Phones"

    A study conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering found that the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in some Android smartphones could be used to eavesdrop on a user's credentials when they type them…

  • "Researchers Used a Decommissioned Satellite to Broadcast Hacker TV"

    Security researcher Karl Koscher and his colleagues explored what happens when an old satellite has been decommissioned and transitioned into a graveyard orbit. They were given permission to access and broadcast from a Canadian satellite called Anik F1R…

  • "House Passes Better Cybercrime Metrics Act"

    The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill that would change how cybercrime is tracked, measured, and reported by the federal government.  The Better Cybercrime Metrics Act was approved by the House in a bipartisan 377-48 vote.…

  • "Trezor Customers Phished After MailChimp Compromise"

    Customers of a popular cryptocurrency hardware provider have been urged not to reply to any official-looking emails after a convincing phishing campaign was uncovered.  Trezor makes hardware devices that customers can use to store their digital…