There are currently more than three million unfilled cybersecurity jobs globally, and, as high-profile incidents like the Solar Winds attack demonstrate, it is vital to address that shortage. But it is difficult…
Automatically Finding Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
A typical buffer overflow occurs when a computer program receives a request to process more data than its physical memory is capable of handling all at once and places the excess into…
Full Impact of Russian Ransomware Attack Hard to Estimate
Hackers associated with the REvil gang, a major Russian ransomware syndicate have demanded $70 million in Bitcoin in exchange for a decryption tool to free the data of companies targeted, but also…
Data Breaches: Most Victims Unaware When Shown Evidence of Multiple Compromised Accounts
It’s been nine years since the LinkedIn data breach, eight years since Adobe customers were victims of cyber attackers and four years since Equifax made headlines for the exposure of private information…
Accelerating the Speed of Science
In today’s digitalized world, researchers have access to more data than ever before. Generic central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) can handle and analyze this data, but they can…
Making Our Computers More Secure
Because corporations and governments rely on computers and the internet to run everything from the electric grid, healthcare, and water systems, computer security is extremely important to all of us. It is…
How Will We Protect American Infrastructure from Cyberattacks
Infrastructure — it’s one of those words we think we understand, but it can be a hard concept to wrap our brains around. We may vaguely imagine electrical grids or railroads, but…
PNNL’s Shadow Figment Technology Foils Cyberattacks
Scientists have created a cybersecurity technology called Shadow Figment that is designed to lure hackers into an artificial world, then stop them from doing damage by feeding them illusory tidbits of success.…
Modern Infrastructure Security Must Be Reframed with More Thorough Approach
Infrastructure has always been a target in warfare, according to Mikhail Chester, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). “Think about military aircraft dropping bombs on bridges…
Zero-Trust Security: Assume That Everyone and Everything on the Internet Is Out to Get You – and Maybe Already Has
President Joe Biden’s cybersecurity executive order, signed May 12, 2021, calls for the federal government to adopt a “zero-trust architecture.” This raises a couple of questions. What is zero-trust security? And, if…
