TEDx at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
BGU’s W.A. Minkoff Senate Hall became a TEDx venue last week as President Prof. Rivka Carmi and five other speakers took to the stage to discuss issues at the heart of modern civilization.The event was sponsored by the CyberSpark Industry Initiative.Video clips of each talk will be available in the near future.The speakers: Rivka Carmi, […]
Detection of malicious webmail attachments based on propagation patterns
Yehonatan Cohen, Danny Hendler, Amir Rubin Knowledge-Based Systems Volume 141, 1 February 2018, Pages 67-79 Link to document Email remains one of the key media used by cybercriminals for distributing malware. Based on a large data set consisting of antivirus telemetry reports, we conduct the first comprehensive study of the properties of malicious webmail attachments. […]
Kitsune: An Ensemble of Autoencoders for Online Network Intrusion Detection
Yisroel Mirsky, Tomer Doitshman, Yuval Elovici and Asaf Shabtai Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), 2018 Link to document Neural networks have become an increasingly popular solution for network intrusion detection systems (NIDS). Their capability of learning complex patterns and behaviors make them a suitable solution for differentiating between normal traffic and network attacks. […]
New Cyber Security Approaches for Medical Imaging Devices Are Required, According to BGU’s Malware Lab Researchers
Malware Lab researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) are warning medical imaging device (MID) manufacturers and healthcare providers to become more diligent in protecting medical imaging equipment from cyber threats.In their new paper, “Know Your Enemy: Characteristics of Cyber-Attacks on Medical Imaging Devices, Malware Lab researchers demonstrate the relative ease of exploiting unpatched medical […]
Medical imaging devices are vulnerable to cyber-attacks, Israeli team warns
Cybersecurity researchers at Ben-Gurion University say they are developing AI-driven solutions to foil hacks, by making sure medical instructions match patient’s profile Cybersecurity researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev say that medical imaging devices, such as CT scans, are vulnerable to cyber-threats, and manufacturers and healthcare providers must therefore be more diligent in protecting them. During […]
Faculty members participated in the World Economic Forum Davos 2018
Prof. Lior Rokach head of the department, Prof. Bracha Shapira deputy dean for research, Prof. Yuval Elovici director of deutsche telekom laboratories and cyber labs in Israel and Mr. Oleg Brodt director of development at the cyber labsparticipated in the World Economic Forum Davos 2018They lectured on the subject of artificial intelligence and cyber […]
Artificial Intelligence Cyber-hacking Arms Race At Full Throttle
With the artificial intelligence cyber-hacking arms race already moving at a break-neck speed, a group of Ben-Gurion University experts warn that cyber defense can waste no time in playing catch-up. BGU expert Bracha Shapira, speaking to The Jerusalem Post by telephone after presenting at this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, said that cyberattackers using AI “are […]
Davos Selects BGU Cyber Researchers for Presentation
BGU’s top cybersecurity researchers will address the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) – the good, bad and the future at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, January 23. They are one of only two Israeli delegations presenting at the high-profile Davos event.The BGU researchers’ session entitled Cyber-Forensics with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is part of […]
Cyber Security and Cyber Hygiene For The Home Network
In this week’s IoT cyber security and cyber hygiene podcast, we had the pleasure of interviewing Omer Shwartz, a Ph.D student at the prestigious Information Systems Engineering Department at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and an active member of the Implementation Security and Side-Channel Lab under Dr. Yossi Oren.His latest published paper is titled, Opening Pandora’s Box: Effective Techniques for Reverse Engineering IoT […]
The YouTube videos you view can now be tracked
Gaps in YouTube’s encryption enable both intelligence agencies, hackers and internet marketers to determine which videos a user is watching. If you thought what you watch on YouTube is no one’s business, you could not be further detached from reality. Researchers have found that your online video viewing habits can be tracked. Gaps in YouTube’s encryption enable both government […]
First Technique to Detect Illicit Drone Video Filming Demonstrated by Ben-Gurion University and Weizmann Institute Researchers
The first technique to detect a drone camera illicitly capturing video is revealed in a new study published by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Weizmann Institute of Science cyber security researchers. The study addresses increasing concerns about the proliferation of drone use for personal and business applications and how it is impinging on […]
Israeli researcher says he can protect against hacked videos
Such cyberattacks in limelight as WikiLeaks shows how US spies use TVs, callphones and computers to get dataA researcher at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) claims he has developed a series of algorithms that can “completely prevent” attackers from being able to utilize videos or pictures for spying purposes, warning that any video picture […]