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Domains queried by malware samples

Network Traffic Provides Early Indication of Malware Infection

Posted: May 22, 2017

Analyzing network traffic going to suspicious domains could give security administrators earlier warning of malware infections.

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Simulated Ransomware Attack Shows Vulnerability of Industrial Controls

Posted: February 13, 2017

Cybersecurity researchers have developed a new form of ransomware that was able to take over control of a simulated water treatment plant.

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Finding What Doesn’t Belong

Posted: November 29, 2016

By detecting semantic inconsistencies in content, researchers have developed a new technique for identifying promotional infections of websites operated by government and educational organizations. Such attacks use code embedded in highly ranked sites to drive traffic to sketchy websites selling items like fake drugs, counterfeit handbags, and plagiarized term papers.

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Cyber Threats and Trends

Posted: November 29, 2016

Georgia Tech’s 2017 Emerging Cyber Threats, Trends, and Technologies report highlights concerns about global manipulation of information, health care fraud, data encryption, and other issues likely to affect society in the year ahead. 

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$17 Million Contract Will Help Establish Science of Cyber Attribution

Posted: November 29, 2016

Georgia Tech has been awarded $17.3 million to help establish new science of attribution.

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Study Finds “Lurking Malice” in Cloud Hosting Services

Posted: October 19, 2016

A study of 20 major cloud hosting services has found that as many as 10 percent of the repositories hosted by them had been compromised.

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Data Driven

Posted: August 28, 2016

Turning numbers into knowledge. Powerful computers and sophisticated algorithms change the way research is done.

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Measuring side-channel emissions

Monitoring Side-Channel Signals Could Detect Malicious Software on IoT Devices

Posted: August 1, 2016

DARPA awards $9.4 million to develop a new technique for monitoring IoT devices.

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FUSE and the Internet of Things

Standardizing Communications for the Internet of Things

Posted: June 22, 2016

Researchers have developed a flexible, generic data-fusion software that simplifies interacting with sensor networks known as the Internet of Things.

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SEISE Tool Uses Semantic Gaps to Detect Website Promotional Attacks

Posted: May 19, 2016

Researchers have developed a new technique for identifying promotional infections of websites operated by government and educational organizations.

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