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Three Purdue University researchers and their teammates at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have received a DARPA grant to fund research that will improve the process of patching code in vul… Continue reading Researchers aim to improve code patching in embedded systems
A university in California previously reported to be conducting COVID-19 research has paid $1.14 million to digital scammers who locked the schools’ systems and demanded an extortion fee. The University of California, San Francisco said on Friday it paid the ransom after malicious software infected a “limited number of servers” in an attack detected on June 1 at the university’s School of Medicine. While it remains unclear what, exactly, was affected, the school said the incident did not affect its patient care system, the campus network or the school’s research on the coronavirus. Scientists at the university are conducting trials into whether anti-malarial drugs may help mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic, as Bloomberg first reported. “Our investigation is ongoing but, at this time, we believe that the malware encrypted our servers opportunistically, with no particular area being targeted,” university officials said in an announcement Friday. “The attackers obtained some data as […]
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NetWalker ransomware operators have persuaded the University of California San Francisco to pay over $1 million in an extortion scheme using data-encrypting malware. The attack, UCSF officials say, didn’t even target the institution. UCSF’s… Continue reading University of California San Francisco Pays $1 Million to Ransomware Operators after June 1 Attack
While there are ways to alleviate some symptoms, there is currently no way to prevent or cure Parkinson’s disease, so the prospect of a one-off treatment that completely eliminates it is certainly an exciting one. While such a therapy remains a while off, scientists have demonstrated an exciting proof of concept in mice, whereby inhibiting a single gene as a one-time treatment eradicated the disease entirely, and kept it at bay for the remainder of their lives.
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Continue reading Single-gene treatment cures mice of Parkinson’s within three months
Researchers working in the field of soft robotics hope to bring about a new generation of machines that are far safer for humans to work with, and one way they hope to do that is through supple, inflatable components. Scientists at Stanford University … Continue reading Shape-changing inflatable robot can nab objects and roam on its own
An approach to network security that will enhance the effectiveness and timeliness of protection against adversarial intrusion and evasion strategies, has been identified by the Army’s corporate laboratory researchers in collaboration with the Un… Continue reading SymTCP: New approach to protecting Army systems without massive amounts of manual intervention
Rapidly evolving cybersecurity threats are now commanding the attention of senior business leaders and boards of directors and are no longer only the concern of IT security professionals. A report from University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Lo… Continue reading How to govern cybersecurity risk at the board level
Police could set up transceivers outside a building and compare spectrograms of suspects walking vs. crime scene footage. Continue reading Wi-Fi signals let researchers ID people through walls from their gait
We’ve seen robots that can respond to touch, to visual cues and of course voice commands, but what about a robot with a sense of taste? Scientists have developed an experimental device built to explore this possibility, and in its current for… Continue reading Robotic arm taste tests its own bathwater for dangerous chemicals
Members of underserved populations are less likely to know whether they have even been victimized by a cyber attack, and they have lower awareness of cybersecurity risks. Partly as a result, they are also less likely to access vital online services, su… Continue reading Underserved populations unaware of cybersecurity risks