2021

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Visible to the public META expands Facebook Protect Program

Submitted by ebuckh on Fri, 12/03/2021 - 5:44pm
Meta, the new name for Facebook, has expanded it’s Facebook Protect security program to journalists, government officials, human rights defenders, and activist who are often targets online. The program offers enhances security like two factor authentication and alerts for potential hacking threats. Almost 1 million accounts have turned on this protection since it came online in September 2021. It also gives members tips for improving security. #ScienceofSecurity https://thehackernews.com/2021/12/meta-expands-facebook-protect-program.html
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Visible to the public GoDaddy managed WordPress customers part of big hack

Submitted by ebuckh on Sat, 11/27/2021 - 10:33am
Over 1.2 million GoDaddy customers were impacted by a recent hack. GoDaddy is the world’s largest domain registrar and it’s managed WordPress hosting include a number of associated companies like 123Reg, Domain Factory, Host Europe, and others. An unauthorized third party using stolen credentials was able to get into the system back in September and lurked undetected until November 17th. Customers id’s and emails were stolen for 1.2 active and inactive Managed WordPress customers. SFTP and database usernames and passwords for active customers were also stolen—and have now been reset.
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Visible to the public New Adobe open source project is using machine learning to detect software attacks.

Submitted by ebuckh on Sat, 11/13/2021 - 3:24pm
The project called LotL, (Living off the Land), extracts features of specific commands and then classifies them as either good or bad commands and sets up a set of tags for follow-on detection by a decision tree. Lotl uses supervised learning and an open source dataset of real-world attacks to extract features of specific commands in a way inspired by the process that human experts and analyst might use.
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Visible to the public The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Launches “The Time is Now: Advancing Equity in Science and Technology Ideation Challenge”

Submitted by akarns on Mon, 11/08/2021 - 10:45am

The Time is Now: Advancing Equity in Science and Technology Ideation Challenge, is open for submissions until November 19, 2021.

https://www.challenge.gov/?challenge=ostp-time-is-now

Science and technology must include and benefit all of America. Help make that a reality!

We need your insight to transform this Nation for the better.

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Visible to the public https://thehackernews.com/2021/11/us-offers-10-million-reward-for.html

Submitted by ebuckh on Sat, 11/06/2021 - 4:41pm
In an effort to put pressure on the DarkSide Ransomeware Group, the government announced on Thursday a $10 million reward for information about the key leadership individuals in the DarkSide ransomware group—or any of it’s rebranded groups. The State Department’s $5 million dollar bounties are for intel and information that could help authorities arrest and convict others conspiring with the transnational organized crime syndicate. These efforts are in response to the DarkSide’s attack on Colonial Pipeline that disrupted fuel distribution to the East Cost for a week.
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Visible to the public  Bowie State University REU in Cybersecurity
May 26, 2021 7:00 am - Jul 30, 2021 6:00 pm EDT

Submitted by akarns on Mon, 11/01/2021 - 10:29am

Research Experience for Undergraduates in Cybersecurity

Guy-Alain Amoussou, PhD; PI, Associate Provost, Division of Academic Academic Affairs & Provost

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Visible to the public Microsoft to provide cybersecurity training and scholarships to community colleges

Submitted by ebuckh on Fri, 10/29/2021 - 2:28pm
Microsoft is working with community colleges to provide free training and resources to help ease the cybersecurity professional shortage. This includes training for faculty at 150 community colleges and scholarships to 25,000 students. By targeting community colleges, Microsoft believes they will also be diversifying the industry which is currently overwhelmingly male and white. The students at community colleges are 57% women and 40% minorities.
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Visible to the public Future of Research

Submitted by willirn1 on Thu, 10/28/2021 - 1:02am. Contributor:

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Dr. Tom Hedberg leads the Acquisition and Industrial Security core mission area at ARLIS. Dr. Hedberg conducts Intelligence and Security research in the areas of product design, manufacturing, and lifecycle engineering using information modeling, knowledge engineering, ontologies, system integration, and advanced optimization techniques.

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Visible to the public Introduction and Overview of Challenge Problems

Submitted by willirn1 on Wed, 10/27/2021 - 2:54pm. Contributors: