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  • "An Uncrackable Combination of Invisible Ink and Artificial Intelligence"

    Although electronic records continue to advance, paper is still a common method of preserving data. Invisible ink can be used to hide classified economic, commercial, or military information, but many popular inks have toxic compounds or can be seen with…

  • "Ransomware Takes Down East Coast Fuel Pipeline"

    After a ransomware attack that knocked offline the country's largest fuel pipeline, the US government has been forced to issue emergency legislation.  The government legislation put in place is designed to relax rules restricting the transportation…

  • "US Physics Laboratory Exposed Documents, Credentials"

    A group of security researchers found weaknesses at the Fermilab physics laboratory in the US that could lead to the exposure of documents, proprietary applications, project details, and more. Fermilab is a particle accelerator and physics laboratory in…

  • "Closing Network Pathways to Sensitive Data to Help Secure Medical Devices"

    The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released ICS Medical Advisory (ICSMA-21-084-01) that covers a specific vulnerability discovered in the Philips Gemini PET/CT family of scanners. These scanners store patient data in detachable…

  • "CaptureRx Data Breach Impacts Healthcare Providers"

    At least three American healthcare providers have suffered a data breach after a cyber-attack on an administrative services company in Texas.  CaptureRx, which is based in San Antonio, fell victim to a ransomware attack on February 6. On February 19…

  • "#COVID19 Researchers Lose a Week's Work to Ryuk Ransomware"

    According to security researchers at Sophos, an organization involved in COVID-19 research lost a week's worth of critical data after a Ryuk attack that used a stolen password.  The problem was traced back to one of the university students that the…

  • "Millions of Older Broadband Routers Have These Security Flaws, Warn Researchers"

    A new investigation conducted by the consumer watchdog Which? in collaboration with security researchers, discovered the vulnerability of millions of old broadband routers used in the UK to hacking. Which? identified 13 older routers commonly used by…

  • "Counterfit: Open-Source Tool for Testing the Security of AI Systems"

    Microsoft has decided to open-source a tool it developed to test the security of its own Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and assess them for vulnerabilities. The tool named Counterfit will help organizations verify the robustness, reliability, and…

  • "US Organizations Targeted by New Cybercrime Group With Sophisticated Malware"

    A new financially motivated threat actor has targeted a number of organizations in the US and other countries using sophisticated malware. FireEye tracks the threat actor as UNC2529, which has used a sizable command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure,…

  • "DDoS Attack Knocks Belgian Government Websites Offline"

    Many government websites and services in Belgium were knocked offline on Tuesday after Belnet, the internet service provider (ISP) for the country’s public sector, was hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.  Belnet stated that…

  • "Researcher Claims Peloton APIs Exposed All Users Data"

    Security researchers from the Pen Test Partners have discovered several issues with the software used by exercise equipment maker Peloton, which may have leaked sensitive customer information to unauthenticated users.  The researchers stated that…

  • "Rust-Based Buer Malware Variant Emerges"

    The cybercriminals behind the Buer malware loader are using a new variant called RustyBuer. According to researchers with Proofpoint, the variant is rewritten in the Rust programming language to evade detection and increase the effectiveness of the…