Manuel Morales, a doctoral candidate in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, is a former naval petty officer who is now developing imaging applications to detect cardiac dysfunction in young patients.
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Colonial Pipeline says it is the victim of a cyberattack that forced the major provider of liquid fuels to the East Coast to temporarily halted all pipeline operations.
A ransomware attack has halted pipeline activities for the Colonial Pipeline Co., which supplies the East Coast with roughly 45 percent of its liquid fuels.
In a statement released on Saturday, Colonial Pipeline said it has temporarily halted pipeline operations in response to a cyberattack impacting the company starting Friday.
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Patches have been issued, but many devices cannot be fixed on April 15, 2021, 12:29
In context: Security researchers at Forescout and JSOF have uncovered a set of nine vulnerabilities within four commonly used TCP/IP stacks. They estimate that more than 100 million devices are affected by these security flaws, which they dubbed Name:Wreck. They mainly affect Internet of Things (IoT) products and IT management servers. The vulnerabilities exist in both open source and proprietary stacks, including FreeBSD and Siemens Nucleus NET.
The flaws all pertain to how these TCP/IP stacks handle DNS servers. While they found no evidence that these holes have been used in the wild, hackers could potentially utilize them to crash a network or infiltrate a victim s infrastructure allowing them remote control. These implications could be catastrophic for critical systems like those used in health care, manufacturing, or government networks.
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Over the last few years, researchers have found a shocking number of  vulnerabilities in seemingly basic code that underpins how devices communicate with the internet. Now a new set of nine such vulnerabilities are exposing an estimated 100 million devices worldwide, including an array of internet-of-things products and IT management servers. The larger question researchers are scrambling to answer, though, is how to spur substantive changesâand implement effective defensesâas more and more of these types of vulnerabilities pile up.
Dubbed Name:Wreck, the newly disclosed flaws are in four ubiquitous TCP/IP stacks, code that integrates network communication protocols to establish connections between devices and the internet. The vulnerabilities, present in operating systems like the open source project FreeBSD, as well as Nucleus NET from the industrial control firm Siemens, all relate to how these stac
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Dana-Farber research leads to better understanding of immune system in kidney cancer
Two research papers highlight single-cell dissection of kidney tumors to identify new immunotherapy treatments and targets
In the last two decades, immunotherapy has emerged as a leading treatment for advanced renal carcinoma cancer (more commonly known as kidney cancer). This therapy is now part of the standard of care, but it doesn’t work for all patients, and almost all patients, no matter how they respond initially, become more resistant to treatment over time. The immune system plays a critical role in kidney cancer disease progression and in response to therapies, and so a fundamental challenge in the field is to understand the underlying “immune circuitry” of this disease.