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Federal Agency Again Honors Texas A&M University System For Success in Protecting U.S. Secrets, Technology

For the second time in three years, the Texas A&M System won the Defense Counterintelligence & Security Agency Award for Excellence in Counterintelligence. The award is given for work to protect sensitive information from foreign spies. The System holds the distinction of being the only higher education institution to win the award more than once.
May 15, 2020

Researchers Flag e-Voting Security Flaws
Paper ballots and source-code transparency are recommended to improve election security.
Telegram Fraudsters Ramp Up Forged COVID-19 Vaccine Card Sales
A new type of fraud is spiking across the platform: Selling fake vax records to people who want to lie their way into places where proof of vaccine is required.
Gig Workers Being Paid $500 for Payroll Passwords
Argyle is paying workers to help hack payroll providers, researchers suspect.
‘FragAttacks’: Wi-Fi Bugs Affect Millions of Devices
Wi-Fi devices going back to 1997 are vulnerable to attackers who can steal your data if they're in range.
TeaBot Trojan Targets Banks via Hijacked Android Handsets
Malware first observed in Italy can steal victims’ credentials and SMS messages as well as livestream device screens on demand.
Wormable Windows Bug Opens Door to DoS, RCE
Microsoft's May 2021 Patch Tuesday updates include fixes for four critical security vulnerabilities.
GitHub Prepares to Move Beyond Passwords
GitHub adds support for FIDO2 security keys for Git over SSH to fend off account hijacking and further its plan to stick a fork in the security bane of passwords.
Hackers Leverage Adobe Zero-Day Bug Impacting Acrobat Reader
A patch for Adobe Acrobat, the world’s leading PDF reader, fixes a vulnerability under active attack affecting both Windows and macOS systems that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
Fake Chrome App Anchors Rapidly Worming ‘Smish’ Cyberattack
An ingenious attack on Android devices self-propagates, with the potential for a range of damage.
Shifting Threats in a Changed World: Edge, IoT and Vaccine Fraud
Aamir Lakhani, researcher at FortiGuard Labs, discusses leading-edge threats related to edge access/browsers/IoT, and the COVID-19 vaccine, as a way of getting into larger organizations.