In early July 2024, Albertans lined up at gas stations and grocery Co-Op stores. The impact was publicly realized after a formal announcement from by the Federated Co-Operatives Ltd (FCL) on the 27th of June 2024 confirming a security incident on western FLC stores. The cyber-attack widespread knocked out hundreds of Canada’s Co-Op western stores …
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A recent article posted on September 19th claims to have seen evidence that German police and authorities successfully de-anonymized a Tor user which resulted in their arrest and conviction back in 2022. [3] Tor has and is still the main method for someone to anonymously access the internet and the dark web. Anonymity has made …
In recent times, there has been a significant increase in large language modeling software, specifically generative AI, as a result, many users are able to incorporate these throughout their daily usage. However, researchers and hackers have been working to find weaknesses within these AI systems, one particular category being prompt injections (Burges, 2024). This recent …
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Imagine a world where anyone’s voice or face can be convincingly faked, blurring the line between real and fake. This is the growing threat of deepfake technology, allowing cybercriminals to impersonate people with striking resemblance. What are Deepfakes? Deepfakes are advanced synthetic media that can convincingly imitate people using altered images, audio, and videos1. The …
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I am glad to share my teaching aid on wireless security with a focus in safeguarding IoT devices. In this teaching aide I talk all about wireless connectivity and authentication modes. Then, I delve into analyzing risks, challenges in securing our home wireless networks and steps we can take to secure our home Wi-Fi. The …
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Team Members Our medium for the teaching aide will be an annotated presentation. Link to presentation: ISEC 603 Group 1 Cloud Security Identity and Access Management (IAM).pptx
Let us delve into the concept of Server-side request Forged (SSRF), a security vulnerability that allows an attacker to trick a server into performing unintended requests on their behalf. In an SSRF attack, the server is tricked into connecting to external or internal resources, potentially exposing sensitive information or allowing unauthorized access. This occurs when …
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Understanding how routers communicate is crucial for maintaining secure and reliable networks. Throughout this teaching aide, you will gain insights into two primary types of routing protocols: Interior Gateway Protocols (IGP) like OSPF, which operate within a single organization, and Exterior Gateway Protocols (EGP) like BGP, which manage routing between different autonomous systems. What You …
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We are happy to introduce our group project: DNS Tunnel Attack (Detection and Measures) This project has been completed by A S M Nazimuddoullah and FAHIM UDDIN In this project, we studied DNS functionalities, DNS tunneling attacks with their features, and different methods to detect DNS tunneling attacks. At the same time, we explored different …
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Artificial intelligence (AI) as we know it is growing in use at an exponential rate. Specifically, within the cybersecurity field, the rise of such AI technology simultaneously presents extraordinary opportunities and intimidating challenges. While AI can identify and exploit vulnerabilities easily, it introduces significant risks if it does not deploy its own set of security …
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