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ICS Devices Vulnerable to Side-Channel Attacks: Researcher
Side-channel attacks can pose a serious threat to industrial control systems (ICS), a researcher warned last month at SecurityWeek's ICS Cyber Security Conference in Atlanta, GA.
https://www.securityweek.com/ics-devices-vulnerable-side-channel-attacks-researcher
Second-Largest US Bank Wins Patent for Crypto Storage System
Recent times have seen banks hedging their bets or even fully integrating cryptocurrencies. The acquisition and filing of patents is how large organizations truly express their interest in a given field, and Bank of America continues to lead the way, now having secured its latest patent in the blockchain and crypto space, one for "tamper-responsive" remote
https://www.ccn.com/second-largest-us-bank-wins-patent-for-crypto-storage-system/
FDA, DHS Strengthen Collaboration Against Medical Device Cybersecurity Threats
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have announced a strengthened partnership to buff up medical device cybersecurity, increasing communication and coordination between the two agencies.
IBM Watson Will be Used by NIST to Assign CVSS Scores to Vulnerabilities
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is planning to use Artificial Intelligence to assign the CVSS scores to reported vulnerabilities.
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/77710/security/nist-ai-cvss-scores.html
Researchers Train AI to Spot Alzheimer’s Disease Ahead of Diagnosis
Researchers in California recently published a study in the journal Radiology, and they demonstrated that, once trained, a neural network was able to accurately diagnose Alzheimer's disease in a small number of patients, and it did so based on brain scans taken years before those patients were actually diagnosed by physicians.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/06/researchers-train-ai-spot-alzheimers-disease/
VMware Unveils New Blockchain Service
One of the new technologies announced on Tuesday by VMware at its VMworld 2018 Europe conference is VMware Blockchain, which aims to provide enterprises a decentralized trust infrastructure based on permissioned blockchain.
https://www.securityweek.com/vmware-unveils-new-blockchain-service
Free CSIAC Webinar: Nov 14 @ 12:00 pm EST – Defense Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Catalog: 2018 Update
The Defense M&S Catalog was established by Defense Modeling & Simulation Coordination Office to support the visibility component of the DoD data strategy and to provide an avenue for M&S organizations to make resources available for reuse. The Catalog is a collection point for enterprise discovery and actively seeks contribution of resources from M&S
https://www.csiac.org/podcast/defense-modeling-and-simulation-ms-catalog-2018-update/
How Cyberspace Makes the DoD Think Differently
U.S. Cyber Command has made it clear that it must undertake traditional and nontraditional partnerships in order to succeed in a highly dynamic environment.
https://www.fifthdomain.com/dod/2018/11/06/how-cyberspace-makes-the-dod-think-differently/
Encryption Flaws in Solid State Drives Enable Unauthorized Data Access
Researchers from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands yesterday disclosed a pair of vulnerabilities in the hardware full-disk encryption mechanisms of self-encrypting solid state drives (SSDs) from Samsung and Crucial. The flaws are present in both internal and external storage devices from these manufacturers, and even affect Microsoft Windows
