Talk about a cache flow problem: This JavaScript can snoop on other browser tabs to work out what you’re visiting
Yes, even the Tor browser can be spied on by this nasty code Special report Computer science boffins have demonstrated a side-channel attack technique that bypasses recently-introduced privacy defenses, and makes even the Tor browser subject to tracking. The result: it is possible for malicious JavaScript in one web browser tab to spy on other open […]
Deutsche Firmen holen sich Hilfe für Cybersicherheit im Land der ständigen Alarmbereitschaft
Bösartige Kühlschränke, entführte Autos, manipulierte Algorithmen – Schutz gegen Attacken aus dem Netz ist für Staaten wie Israel überlebenswichtig. Be’er Sheva/Tel AvivHinter „Golden Cup“ lauerte die Gefahr: Die Smartphone-App zur Fußball-WM in Russland sollte Live-Berichterstattung liefern. Doch sie nahm auch Telefonate auf, stahl Kontaktdaten und lieferte mittels GPS einen genauen Standort des Nutzers. Die Adressaten: israelische Soldaten. […]
מעבדות תשע”ח: 7 תגליות מהאוניברסיטאות הגדולות בארץ
מניבוי סיכויי ההצלחה של טיפול בסרטן ועד הוכחת החשיבות של מגע אנושי. 7 חוקרים מהאוניברסיטאות הגדולות בארץ מספרים על התגליות שלהם 1. חוששים שרחפן מרגל אחריכם? יש דרך פשוטה לגלות את זה דוקטורנט מאוניברסיטת בן גוריון גילה כיצד היקף תעבורת המידע חושף את מטרות הרחפנים איך תדעו שצולמתם על ידי רחפן ואם הייתם המטרה שלו? מחקר חדש, שנעשה […]
Dojo by BullGuard and BGN Technologies Form Strategic Partnership to Develop Advanced IoT Security Technology
Dojo by BullGuard and Cyber@BGU, the Ben-Gurion Cyber Research Lab, Join Forces to Develop Advanced, Future IoT Security Technologies Together to Address the Rising Tide of IoT Cybercrime SAN FRANCISCO and BEER SHEVA, Israel, Aug. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Dojo by BullGuard, a market leader in IoT security, and BGN Technologies, the technology transfer company of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) today […]
Slowdown Nation: Israel lags on internet speeds, choked by lack of competition
Israel slides to number 70 out of 200 nations surveyed on average download speed, as the duopoly that controls the market drags its feet on fiber optics The Startup Nation has slow internet. In fact, not only is Israel’s internet speed slow, it is also increasing more slowly than other countries’. A lack of […]
Hackers Could Cause Havoc By Pwning Internet-Connected Irrigation Systems
Researchers at a university in Israel have found ways to turn smart irrigation systems into a botnet that could theoretically drain some of a city’s water reserves. But don’t panic. Hackers could mess with a city’s water supplies without attacking its critical infrastructure directly, but instead targeting its weakest link: internet-connected sprinklers, researchers warn in a […]
Hackers could turn your garden sprinklers into a cyber weapon
Israeli researchers are warning that smart irrigation systems could take down parts of a city’s water system. Spray and prey: The researchers from Ben-Gurion University found security weaknesses in popular commercial irrigation systems that could allow hackers to turn them on and off remotely. Bad guys could trick them into watering by feeding the web-connected gadgets fake commands […]
Sounds Odd? Your 3D Printer Could Be Hacked
New research from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, that previously showed how easy it is to hack 3D printed drones, is proposing the use of “audio fingerprints” to help 3D printing avoid cyber-attacks. The team’s research is valuable to concerns surrounding the security of 3D printing– a discussion that has tremendous value in industrial additive manufacturing sectors such as aerospace, […]
Evil third-party screens on smartphones are able to see all that you poke
Of course researchers added machine learning to the mix too Smartphone hackers can glean secrets by analysing touchscreen user interactions, according to new research. Boffins from Ben-Gurion University in Israel have shown it’s possible to impersonate a user by tracking touch movements on smartphones with compromised third-party touchscreens, whether they’re sending emails, conducting financial transactions […]
Royal Bank of Canada invests $2m in BGU cybersecurity R&D
The collaboration aims to develop protection methods to strengthen AI and machine learning techniques, while limiting their vulnerability to threats. The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is investing $2 million in research at Ben-Gurion University’s (BGU) Cybersecurity Research Center, RBC and BGU’s technology transfer company BGN Technologies have announced. The funding will support the development […]
לישון (לא) כמו תינוק: כך פורצים לבייבי מוניטור
יש בבעלותכם מכשיר בייבי מוניטור? יעל מה-טוב ועומר שוורץ, חוקרי סייבר, הגיעו לאולפן כדי להראות לנו כמה קל לפרוץ אל מכשירים “חכמים” וללמד מה ניתן לעשות כדי להתגונן מפורצים הכותרות אמנם מחו”ל אבל הפחדים לגמרי מקומיים – התינוק ישן – ובקלות שלא תיאמן מישהו יכול להתחבר למצלמה שאמורה להגן עליו, לחבר בין ההורה לתינוק ופשוט […]
New hacks siphon private cryptocurrency keys from airgapped wallets
Beware of smartphones and cameras around wallets storing your digital coin. Researchers have defeated a key protection against cryptocurrency theft with a series of attacks that transmit private keys out of digital wallets that are physically separated from the Internet and other networks. Like most of the other attacks developed by Ben-Gurion University professor Mordechai […]