Lenovo establishing cybersecurity innovation center with Ben-Gurion University
Chinese giant Lenovo announced on Monday that it is establishing the Lenovo Cybersecurity Innovation Center (LCIC) in cooperation with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Lenovo’s investment in the center wasn’t disclosed, but is believed to be in the millions of dollars. According to the company, the center will focus on zero-trust architecture innovation in hardware […]
BGU Researchers Outline Security, Privacy Threats Presented by Drone Use
The growing popularity of personal and commercial drone use in populated areas poses significant risks both for society and drones as a result of lack in additional technology that is required to secure both parties from one another. The lack of supporting technology could be exploited by malicious entities for cyberattacks, terrorism, crime and threats […]
Israel Police and BGU Launch Center for Computational Criminology
The new Center for Computational Criminology was launched on Wednesday at BGU. The Center, a joint initiative of the Israel Police and BGU, will develop advanced cyber, big data and artificial intelligence tools to fight crime.The ceremony was held at BGU’s Advanced Technologies Park in the presence of Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheikh and BGU […]
Malware Escapes from Faraday Cages and Air-Gapped Computers
Faraday rooms or “cages designed to prevent electromagnetic signals from escaping can nevertheless be compromised and leak highly sensitive data, according to new studies by BGU’s Cyber@BGU.Research led by Dr. Mordechai Guri (pictured right), the head of research and development of Cyber@BGU showed for the first time that a Faraday room and an air-gapped computer that is disconnected from the […]
BGU and Amdocs Launch Joint Research Lab
BGU and Amdocs launched the joint Amdocs Ben-Gurion University Research Laboratory recently to cultivate cooperation in the areas of Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning. The Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering will partner with Amdocs to further research on these critical issues. “We are excited about the launch of a new Amdocs-BGU research lab. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]