The Claroty Research Team's analysis of the Open Platform Communications (OPC) network protocol uncovered several security vulnerabilities and vendor implementation issues. This protocol is widely implemented in Operational Technology (OT) networks. The…

Google's Threat Analysis Group has revealed an ongoing campaign targeting security researchers. The actors behind this campaign are believed to be backed by the North Korean government. According to Google, the government-backed hackers have been…

The race continues to develop post-quantum cryptographic methods. Chinese researchers achieved success when they conducted an open-air test of a new generation quantum crypto system. Unlike the previous iteration of quantum cryptography, the new system…

SoS Musings #45 - Privacy in Data Sharing and Analytics  

U.S. and European law enforcement agencies stated Wednesday that they had seized control of the computing infrastructure used by Emotet, a botnet of infected machines that has been one of the most pervasive cybercrime threats over the last six years.…

Cybersecurity Snapshots #14 - The Rise of Ryuk  

Researchers at NETSCOUT discovered that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks rose substantially last year following the digital shift brought about by COVID-19. The researchers stated that over 10 million attacks of this nature occurred in 2020,…

Cybercrime investigators suggest that the growing trend of increasingly large ransomware cash demands and attack frequency is the result of a specialized black market economy, not the work of a large number of criminals. This specialized black market…

DevSecOps - Baking in Cybersecurity

Spotlight on Lablet Research #14 - Project: A Human Agent-Focused Approach to Security Modeling  

Cyber Scene #52 - Cyber: Capitol Offense and Counter  

​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.