The Institute for Security and Technology’s Ransomware Task Force threw cold water on the need for a ransomware payment ban in a report released Wednesday. The nonprofit Institute for Security and Technology rejects the viability of a ransom payment ban for multiple reasons, including: Concerns about a ban’s impact on ransom payment reporting by victims. […]
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology presented a novel approach to developing programmable logic controller (PLC) malware that proves to be more flexible, resilient, and impactful than current strategies. The scheme allows the malware to stealthily attack the underlying real-world machinery using the legitimate web application program interfaces (APIs) exposed by the admin portal […]
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology presented a novel approach to developing programmable logic controller (PLC) malware that proves to be more flexible, resilient, and impactful than current strategies. The scheme allows the malware to stealthily attack the underlying real-world machinery using the legitimate web application program interfaces (APIs) exposed by the admin portal […]
The Beijing Wangshendongjian Judicial Appraisal Institute Institute’s claim that AirDrop’s anonymization techniques can be easily circumvented raises concerns about the vulnerability of user identities and the potential for surveillance.
Jan 08, 2024NewsroomArtificial Intelligence / Cyber Security The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is calling attention to the privacy and security challenges that arise as a result of increased deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in recent years. “These security and privacy challenges include the potential for adversarial manipulation of training data, […]
A new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report on the cybersecurity of genomic data found major privacy gaps in how the data is generated, stored and shared. The paper argues that a NIST privacy framework focusing on the uniqueness of genomic data sensitivity should be established to help organizations that aggregate the data […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The CyberPeace Institute announced Wednesday it will set up a portal with a coalition of cyber response teams to help non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, in the Netherlands protect themselves from cyberattacks. The CyberPeace Institute is a Geneva-based nonprofit that monitors cyberattacks and their effect on society. As part of that mission, […]
A survey conducted by the SANS Institute shows that the budgets allocated by organizations for the security of industrial control systems (ICS) and other operational technology (OT) has decreased significantly in 2023 compared to the previous year. For its 2023 ICS/OT Cybersecurity Survey (PDF), SANS surveyed over 700 individuals from every continent. The respondents represent […]