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High-Stakes Cybersecurity Competition Takes Aim at Car Systems The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has recently announced an upcoming hacking contest that will focus on car systems, called Pwn2Own Automotive. With more than $1 million in cash and prizes up for grabs, the competition aims to incentivize automotive research and encourage vendors to participate in the…
Government Energy Department Offering $9M in Cybersecurity Competition for Small Electric Utilities The Challenge for Small Electric Utilities Small electric utilities in the US have often struggled to match larger utilities in terms of cybersecurity capabilities. Limited budgets, resource constraints, and a lack of specialized cybersecurity expertise make these utilities particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks. Recognizing…
Mobb Wins Startup Spotlight Competition at Black Hat USA 2023 Mobb’s Innovative Approach to Vulnerability Remediation Vulnerability remediation startup Mobb has emerged as the champion of the Startup Spotlight competition at Black Hat USA 2023. The competition featured four finalists, including Binarly, Endor Labs, Gomboc.ai, and Mobb, who were selected after a video pitch competition…
Four Vulnerabilities in Mastodon Raise Security Concerns Last week, Mastodon, the decentralized microblogging platform, patched four vulnerabilities, shining a spotlight on the security of the open-source platform. The vulnerabilities included cross-site scripting, arbitrary file creation, denial-of-service, and a weakness that allowed attackers to hide parts of URLs. These vulnerabilities were assigned scores ranging from moderate…
Artificial Intelligence Cooperation or Competition? China’s Security Industry Sees the US, Not AI, as the Bigger Threat Introduction In recent years, China‘s security and surveillance industry has experienced rapid growth, fueled by advances in artificial intelligence and cooperation with American research institutes and tech firms. However, growing concerns about vulnerabilities to the United States and…
## TII Launches Cryptography Challenges to Evaluate McEliece Cryptosystem The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a scientific research center based in Abu Dhabi, has launched a year-long series of cryptography challenges aimed at evaluating the McEliece cryptosystem. The central goal of this competition is to validate the robustness and security of the McEliece cryptosystem, which is…