Category: Class Posts
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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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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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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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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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Change Healthcare Data Breach; Juniper Router Backdoors; Subaru Hijacking
Security in the News HCA Healthcare Attack Update This wouldn’t be a real “security in the news” post if we didn’t at least touch on the current ransomware news update. HCA Healthcare has announced that the impact from the February hack of their pharmacy management system has grown from 100 million affected individuals to 190…
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How to Keep Your Data Private When Browsing the Internet
For our first post of the semester, it’s a pretty slow news week. Yes there is always something going on at thehackernews.com or Security Week (two sources we like to use), but nothing is really earthshaking at the moment. Thus, this week, after a brief look at a news item, we’ll dig into some tools…
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Ransomeware Gang Snitches to the SEC, Lumma Google Hack
Snitches Get Stitches First up this week, we have hackers exploiting a new toolset — the power of the federal government, specifically the SEC. From BleepingComputer.com: Ransomware gang files SEC complaint over victim’s undisclosed breach It’s news to me that SEC-reporting companies have to disclose data breaches within four days. The poor hackers don’t even…
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ChatGPT Hacked, Retro Look at Snowden and Vault 7, New Privacy Bill in Congress
From my favorite security news website: Major ChatGPT Outage Caused by DDoS Attack ChatGPT Taken Down by DDOS Attack This one is pretty cut and dried, a typical DDoS attack was used on ChatGPT to take the service down. What’s interesting is the origin. Some group “Anonymous Sudan” claimed responsibility, but they are believed to…