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 […]
New algorithm identifies fake users on social networks
Israeli and American researchers develop generic method to detect fake accounts on most types of social networks, including Facebook and Twitter. Fraudulent user profiles – bots – are a serious and growing concern on social media. By some estimates, as many as 48 million Twitter accounts and 270 million Facebook accounts are phony, designed for […]
Cyber @ BGU Mentioned
As with people, nations are best judged by what they do, not what they say. Based on the quality and quantity of its achievements, Israel clearly is a doer. For the third year in a row, in honor of Israel’s birthday, I’ve prepared a list of notable things the country has done over the past 12 […]
MOSQUITO Attack Allows Air-Gapped Computers to Covertly Exchange Data
The team of security researchers—who last month demonstrated how attackers could steal data from air-gapped computers protected inside a Faraday cage—are back with its new research showing how two (or more) air-gapped PCs placed in the same room can covertly exchange data via ultrasonic waves. Air-gapped computers are believed to be the most secure setup wherein the […]
Air gapping PCs won’t stop data sharing thanks to sneaky speakers
Boffins shows that sound output devices secretly capture audio Computer speakers and headphones make passable microphones and can be used to receive data via ultrasound and send signals back, making the practice of air gapping sensitive computer systems less secure. In an academic paper published on Friday through preprint service ArXiv, researchers from Israel’s Ben-Gurion […]
Police Issue Warning After Cameras At Women’s Apparel Shop Hacked
‘Assume every camera on a network can be hacked,’ cautioned the police cybercrimes unit. Aviral Peeping Tom who hacked into the closed-circuit TV surveillance camera at a women’s bathing suit shop has led to a warning from the Israel Police Cybercrimes Unit that similar systems may be compromised and violate the privacy of unsuspecting persons. […]