Security News

Security Vulnerabilities in US Weapons Systems
2018-10-10 11:21

The US Government Accounting Office just published a new report: "Weapons Systems Cyber Security: DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Vulnerabilities" (summary here). The upshot won't be a...

New Pentagon Weapons Systems Easily Hacked: Report
2018-10-09 17:40

New US weapons systems being developed by the US Department of Defense can be easily be hacked by adversaries, a new government report said on Tuesday. read more

Dutch cheesed off with Russians, expel four suspects over chemical weapons Wi-Fi spying
2018-10-04 21:37

Russia hits back: Do not 'swallow these provocations' Four alleged Russian agents have been expelled from the Netherlands after they attempted to hack the chemical weapons watchdog probing the...

Key weapon for closing IoT-era cybersecurity gaps? Artificial intelligence
2018-09-19 06:00

As businesses struggle to combat increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity attacks, the severity of which is exacerbated by both the vanishing IT perimeters in today’s mobile and IoT era, and an...

Iranian Hackers Improve Recently Used Cyber Weapon
2018-09-05 14:16

The Iran-linked cyberespionage group OilRig was recently observed using a variant of the OopsIE Trojan that was updated with new evasion capabilities, Palo Alto Networks reports. read more

FireEye: Tech Firms' Secret Weapon Against Disinformation
2018-08-24 19:40

NEW YORK (AP) — This week has seen major social media sites step up their policing of online disinformation campaigns. Google disabled dozens of YouTube channels and other accounts linked to a...

DeepLocker: When malware turns artificial intelligence into a weapon
2018-08-08 12:18

In the future, your face could become the trigger for the execution of malware.

Google Won't Use Artificial Intelligence for Weapons
2018-06-07 20:26

Google announced Thursday it would not use artificial intelligence for weapons or to "cause or directly facilitate injury to people," as it unveiled a set of principles for these technologies. read more

Facebook as an Election Weapon, From Obama to Trump
2018-03-23 19:20

The use of Facebook data to target voters has triggered global outrage with the Cambridge Analytica scandal. But the concept is nothing new: Barack Obama made extensive use of the social network...

Reverse Engineering the Cuban Sonic Weapon
2018-03-22 14:43

Interesting analysis and speculation....