The December 2015 Ukraine cyber-attack that took control of the Prykarpattyaoblenergo Control Center (PCC) in the Ivano-Frankivsk region serves as study-case for all cyber-security researchers concerned with possible similar incidents in the US. The said APT attack was performed via a malware
Smartphones head towards touch-based continuous authentication – a type of permanent identity validation that is also passive, since it does not hinder in any way other human-phone interactions that may be taking place during the same time. That would eliminate the risks of intrusion currently at t
If the denomination of acoustic fingerprinting does not fully reveal the core concept, then maybe defining this type of fingerprinting as the mark/pattern based on a digital summary extracted from a short audio signal (summary that includes identifying, recognizing and tracking the audio source)
In a pioneering move, cyber-security expert Bruce Schneier approached the risks linked to embedded systems as early as January 2014. Embedded systems cyber-security raised a certain amount of interest in 2015, and will represent an even hotter topic in 2016. Taking a broad view on what embedded
Malvertising is the assigned term for malicious advertising , which represents the action of hijacking legitimate online advertising networks performed by malicious factors in order to inject their own malware-ridden advertisements into the said platforms. The usual shape malvertising takes is that
Let’s open our Dark Web discussion with a question: just how much of the entire Internet would you think is accessible via the usual search engines? Take a wild guess. We have conducted our own mini-inquiry based on this question, and the answers we received ranged from 20 to 40 percent. Well, gu
#ransomware is an actual cyber – phenomenon . First brought to attention in 1989 (the AIDS Trojan or PC Cyborg), then mentioned somewhere back in 2005 ( Trojan.Gpcoder , then the Archiveus Trojan in 2006 that combined ransomware with RSA encryption), 2014 seems to have been its year of choice – the
