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A new dynamic tool developed by Columbia University researchers flagged cryptography mistakes made in more than 300 popular Android apps. Continue reading Cryptobugs Found in Numerous Google Play Store Apps
The Russian government hacking group known as Cozy Bear or APT29 has been targeting coronavirus vaccine research, U.K., U.S., and Canadian government officials said Thursday morning. The hackers have been trying to breach programs in all three countries, the officials said in a security assessment issued by the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Agencies from the U.S. and Canada contributed to the effort. The hacking is aimed predominantly at “government, diplomatic, think-tank, healthcare and energy targets,” the NCSC said in the assessment. A senior official with the U.S. National Security Agency urged organizations to pay attention to the technical details in the document. “APT29 has a long history of targeting governmental, diplomatic, think-tank, healthcare and energy organizations for intelligence gain so we encourage everyone to take this threat seriously and apply the mitigations issued in the advisory,” NSA Cybersecurity Director Anne Neuberger said in a separate statement. State-backed hackers worldwide are interested in targeting research […]
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After three years of online publications, HardwareX may have solidified itself as an academic journal for open-source hardware. We originally wrote about HardwareX back in 2016. At the time, HardwareX hadn’t even published its first issue and only begun soliciting manuscripts. Now after three years of publishing, six issues as …read more
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I am in my first year of university studying for a joint honours degre… Continue reading What can I be doing to make myself a better candidate for cyber security internships / placement years [closed]
Despite hackers’ successes, we’re still being mistaken for criminals in hoodies — a misconception that has helped keep the skills gap, especially when it comes to offensive security, as wide as ever.
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Russian military hackers who stole emails from the Democratic National Committee in 2016 were only acting as one part of a larger, coordinated effort to spread Kremlin-approved messaging before and after the 2016 election, according to new findings from Stanford University. Stanford’s Internet Observatory on Tuesday released a trove of analysis detailing how the GRU, a Russian military intelligence unit, was unable to generate public interest in the data stolen from Hillary Clinton’s campaign for more than a month. Hackers first linked to the stolen emails in a June 14, 2016 set of Facebook posts, pointing to a set of messages supposedly leaked from the campaign. Facebook engagement to the DC Leaks Page, later attributed to Russia, totaled a mere 834 engagements over 22 posts published over four months. International attention only began when WikiLeaks tweeted a link to a database containing thousands of documents revealing internal strife in the […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes One of the hardest — and most rewarding — lessons I learned during my first bid as a graduate security architect was to back my suggestions with confidence, but know when to back off.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes The darknet isn’t all creepy, illegal content. In between criminal marketplaces and hacker forums, there’s a few hidden websites that exist for legitimate purposes.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Today, the body broker business is unregulated as in centuries past. Security tools such as RFID tracking, blockchain transactions and IAM can help validate the trustworthiness of buyers and sellers.
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I am looking for academic journals on signaling system seven (SS7) hacks that have been carried out by cybercriminals. For example, a malicious threat actor using it to reset a bank account password.
I have already read plen… Continue reading Journals on SS7 hacks? [on hold]