Cyber Security and Information Systems Information Analysis Center
The Air Force is refining new cloud-oriented cybersecurity technologies to safeguard vulnerable data networks and strengthen defenses against increasingly sophisticated AI-enabled cyber attacks.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/air-force-has-new-cyber-security-defense-plan-50692
Over the past few years, scammers have increasingly siphoned cash off of digital payment networks, stealing hundreds of millions of dollars so far. Not only is the problem hard to contain; new findings show that it's evolving and maturing, with new types of ATM malware on the rise.
When the malware known both as Triton and Trisis came to light in late 2017, it quickly gained a reputation as perhaps the world's most dangerous piece of code: the first ever designed to disable the safety systems that protect industrial facilities from potentially lethal physical accidents. But Triton hackers still have to engage in a far more common forms
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters on Tuesday that the net neutrality bill Democrats are pushing through the House will be "dead on arrival" in the Senate.
Microsoft has admitted that its Outlook.com security breach was worse than the company initially revealed.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/15/18311112/microsoft-outlook-web-email-hack-response-comment
Responsible for protecting a large, complex and federated network of city systems, NYC Cyber Command built its own, open-source data pipeline.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/building-a-data-pipeline-to-defend-new-york-from-cyber-threats/
Hackers are using the EternalBlue exploit and leveraging advantage of Living off the Land (LotL) obfuscated PowerShell-based scripts to deliver malware and a Monero cryptocurrency.
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/83738/cyber-crime/malware-campaign-eternalblue.html
Microsoft has been collaborating with researchers linked to a Chinese military-backed university on artificial intelligence, elevating concerns that US firms are contributing to China's high-tech surveillance and censorship apparatus.
http://www.securityweek.com/microsofts-work-chinese-military-university-raises-eyebrows
It's clearer than ever that police see smartphones as treasure troves of evidence. New York Times sources understand that law enforcement requests for information from Google's mobile Location History database, known internally as Sensorvault, have "risen sharply" in the last six months.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/14/surge-in-police-requests-for-mobile-location-data/
A trio of critical zero-day vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins has exposed 160,000 websites to attacks after a security researcher publicly disclosed the flaws before patches were made available.
https://www.techradar.com/news/security-researcher-exposes-zero-day-wordpress-vulnerabilities
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