Nearly $ 1 million NSF grant to bolster cyber-physical systems security Missouri S&T News and Research
A team of researchers from Missouri S&T has received a National Science Foundation research grant of nearly $ 1 million to develop stronger safeguards for a …
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Almost 20 years ago, Chris Wysopal was among a group of hackers who testified before U.S. Congress, warning it about the dangers of the internet.
Unfortunately, the U.S. government is still struggling to act, he said. “You’re just going to keep ending up with the status quo,” he said, pointing to the U.S. government’s failure to regulate the tech industry or incentivize any change.
It’s a feeling that was shared by the experts who attended this week’s RSA cybersecurity show. Clearly, the U.S. government needs to do more on cybersecurity, but what?
Perhaps, the need for U.S. action hasn’t been more urgent. In last year’s election, Russia was accused of hacking U.S. political groups and figures in an effort to influence the outcome.
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Behavioral biometrics that uses machine learning is behind new features being added to IBM’s Trusteer Pinpoint Detect platform, which financial institutions use to head off crooks who may have stolen the username and password of legitimate account holders.
The new feature looks for anomalies between legitimate users’ normal mouse gestures and those of the current user, and over time refines the accuracy of its analysis, says Brooke Satti Charles, Financial Crime Prevention Strategist for IBM Security.
That analysis creates a risk score that banks can use to decide whether an ongoing transaction is fraudulent and trigger an alert. The institutions have to decide what to do about the alerts, but they could cut off the transaction or require further ID before the customer is allowed to continue, she says.
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