Security News

The challenges of cyber research and vulnerability disclosure for connected healthcare devices
2020-02-18 06:30

As Head of Research at CyberMDX, Elad Luz gathers and analyzes information on a variety of connected healthcare devices in order to improve the techniques used to protect them and/or report about their security issues to vendors. Care critical devices that are directly connected to patients like infusion pumps, ventilation, anesthesia, patient monitoring and such obviously represent the most critical endpoints from a security perspective.

Hackers Pose Increasing Risk to Medical Research Data
2020-02-04 20:03

The intellectual property, including research results, of biotechnology companies and other medical organizations is also increasingly a target for hackers, who sometimes dump data on hacker forums or public websites. While GBG did not identify the "Member company" impacted by the attack, media outlet Bleeping Computer on Jan. 23 reported that Medical Diagnostics Laboratory - a unit of GBG - was a victim of a Dec. 2, 2019, Maze ransomware attack that resulted in the dumping of more than 9 Gbytes of research related data on the Maze Team website.

New Research on the Adtech Industry
2020-02-04 12:21

The Norwegian Consumer Council has published an extensive report about how the adtech industry violates consumer privacy. At the same time, it is filing three legal complaints against six companies in this space.

Iranian Hackers Target U.S. Research Organization in Ongoing Campaign
2020-01-30 19:03

A threat group linked to Iran has targeted a U.S.-based research company whose services are used by businesses and government organizations, cybersecurity firm Intezer reveals. Specifically, Intezer's security researchers discovered a phishing document masquerading as an employee satisfaction survey tailored to Westat employees.

TypingDNA raises $7 million to advance the research and distribution of typing biometrics
2020-01-08 00:15

Behavioral-biometrics company TypingDNA announces that it raised a $7 million Series A round led by Gradient Ventures, Google's AI-focused venture fund. TypingDNA has developed proprietary artificial intelligence algorithms to authenticate users based on how they type.

SentinelOne extends enterprise security platform with threat research and intelligence offering
2019-12-13 03:30

SentinelOne, the autonomous endpoint protection company, announced the launch of SentinelLabs, a research division designed to identify new attack vectors and mitigate threats impacting...

Oil be damned: Iran-based crooks flinging malware at Middle Eastern energy plants again – research
2019-12-05 12:07

ZeroCleare wipes up where Shamoon left off An Iran-based hacking crew long known to target energy facilities in neighboring Middle Eastern countries is believed to be launching new attacks.…

Automox hires Christopher Hass as director of information security and research
2019-11-25 00:00

Automox, the cloud-native cyber hygiene platform provider, announced the appointment of Christopher Hass as director of information security and research. In this role, Hass will lead the...

Ongoing Research Project Examines Application of AI to Cybersecurity
2019-11-21 16:33

Project Blackfin: Multi-Year Research Project Aims to Unlock the Potential of Machine Intelligence in Cybersecurity read more

Industrial partnership between NTT Research and Simons Institute provides framework for collaboration
2019-11-08 01:15

NTT Research, a division of NTT, announced that it has entered into a three-year Industrial Partnership with the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California,...