Security News

University of Arizona Researchers Going on Offense and Defense in Battle Against Hackers
2019-12-04 18:01

University of Arizona-led teams will be more proactive in the battle against cyberthreats thanks to nearly $1.5 million in grants from the National Science Foundation.

Researcher Unveils CrackQ, a New Password Cracking Manager
2019-12-04 16:20

CrackQ Password Cracking Manager is an Interface for Hashcat Served by a REST API and a JavaScript Web App read more

Unsecured Server Exposed Records of 1.2 Billion: Researchers
2019-11-22 22:48

Over 4 Terabytes of Data Exposed, Including Social Media Profiles, Personal InformationSome 4 terabytes of data on over 1.2 billion individuals - including LinkedIn and Facebook profiles - was...

XSS Flaw in Gmail's Dynamic Email Feature Earns Researcher $5,000
2019-11-20 14:22

A researcher has earned $5,000 from Google for an interesting cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability found in the dynamic email feature added a few months ago to Gmail. read more

Researchers Describe Significant Flaw in Intel's PMx Driver
2019-11-13 18:18

Intel Has Fixed Vulnerability That Allows for 'Near-Omnipotent Control' of DeviceResearchers at Eclypsium have revealed new details concerning a significant flaw in Intel's PMx driver, which they...

Researchers Discover TPM-Fail Vulnerabilities Affecting Billions of Devices
2019-11-13 09:34

A team of cybersecurity researchers today disclosed details of two new potentially serious CPU vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to retrieve cryptographic keys protected inside TPM chips...

Researchers discover massive increase in Emotet activity
2019-11-13 06:00

Emotet had a 730% increase in activity in September after being in a near dormant state, Nuspire discovered. Emotet, a modular banking Trojan, has added additional features to steal contents of...

Researchers develop machine learning-based detector that stops lateral phishing attacks
2019-11-05 06:00

Lateral phishing attacks – scams targeting users from compromised email accounts within an organization – are becoming an increasing concern in the U.S. Whereas in the past attackers would send...

Researchers find hole in EU-wide identity system
2019-10-31 12:47

The EU has fixed a flaw in the powerful yet complex eIDAS digital identification system that let people authenticate as someone else.

Friday Squid Blogging: Researchers Investigating Using Squid Propulsion for Underwater Robots
2019-10-25 21:04

Interesting article and paper. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....