This is the Computer Security News and Weekly Research Writeup blog for GA Tech’s CS 6035/6262/6264 online graduate courses in Information Security.
I also will be streaming on Twitch and YouTube, I have https://www.twitch.com/tekhublive and https://www.youtube.com/@tekhublive for streaming.
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You Just Can’t Trust Hackers Anymore; Discord Invite Woes
Welcome to the Security in the News article for the week of 6/16/25. Just when you thought that ransomware hackers might keep their end of the deal when a hacking victim pays the ransom, think again: Anubis ransomware adds wiper to destroy files beyond recovery From Bleeping Computer, we have a story about Ransomware-as-a-service (Raas),…
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How to Attend a Protest a.k.a. a History of Government Surveillance
Well, it’s almost summer, otherwise known as “protest season.” Yesterday’s protests focused on the United States President, but there are plenty of other reasons to hit the streets and protest attacks on your rights. There’s a famous saying (of mine), “If you don’t fight for your rights, you won’t have any left.” Normally this is…
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Distributed Classroom and Teaching at Scale Books
RESEARCH IN EDUCATION for 6/17/25: (this was orginally posted on Ed in Spring 25, reposted here) Today we’re not going to cover a research paper but instead a couple of books by Dr. Joyner. No, this isn’t a shameless plug, I’m sure he’s doing fine whether you buy his books or not! The first up…
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Wazuh Vulnerable to Mirai, Hacking IoT IP Cameras
Welcome to the Security in the News roundup for the week of 6/8/2025. If you’re not familiar with the term “IoT,” it means Internet of Things, and encompasses devices including your cell phone as well as your Internet enabled-dryer or Internet-connected thermometer. This opening article is a bummer, Wazuh is my favorite tool for SIEM…
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Keeping Things Up To Date & Cryptojacking Campaigns and Android Attacks, Disclosure
Last week we were ripping headlines from The Hacker News: Cryptojacking Campaign Exploits DevOps APIs Using Off-the-Shelf Tools from GitHub Let’s look at an excerpt from the story: Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new cryptojacking campaign that’s targeting publicly accessible DevOps web servers such as those associated with Docker, Gitea, and HashiCorp Consul and Nomad…
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Procrastination Pays — Up to a Point, Then It’s Time for a Plan
RESEARCH IN EDUCATION (this was originally posted for Week 5 of the Spring 2025 CS 6035 course, it’s been adapted for the website) I looked up research on procrastination in education on Google Scholar. I decided to throw “Joyner” into the search terms. Dr. Joyner has his PhD in Human-Centered Computing; this paper from 2020…
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Nova Scotia Power Hack, Do You Trust Your Router?
Hello and welcome to the weekly “Security in the News” and “Research in Education” post. This week we have a couple of stories to look at: Nova Scotia Power Confirms Ransomware Attack, 280k Notified of Data Breach In the news today is Novia Scotia Power admitting they were hacked in a ransomware attack. What could…
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Don’t Delete Stuff! Security in the News, Research in Education
Hey everyone it’s time for Security in the News and Research in Education for the week of 5/19/25. SECURITY IN THE NEWS First up for security news is this hack: RVTools Official Site Hacked to Deliver Bumblebee Malware via Trojanized Installer “Robware.net and RVTools.com are currently offline. We are working expeditiously to restore service and…
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A Closer Look at Google’s Privacy Practices; Ten Trends at OMSCS
Hello everyone, I am James Lohse, a TA for CS 6262 Network Security. Every week I’ll be cross-posting my weekly column/post here in CS6262, CS6035 and CS6264. I cover “Security in the News” and “Research in Education.” I might take a week off here and there, but will still make some post every week. Please…
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Data Brokers Gone Wild
I’ve been meaning to look into data brokers for a while now, here we go. Data brokers got on my radar screen for an article I wrote almost a year ago. Here’s some old news: Florida-Based National Public Data Confirms Data Breach That’s from an August 2024 announcement of a data breach that happened in…