Tracking malicious hackers’ early activities using open source intelligence can offer substantial clues about the likelihood of their becoming a persistent threat in the future, two university researchers claimed in a report this week. That knowledge can help guide early intervention efforts to nudge fledgling hackers off their criminal trajectories, they noted. Christian Howell, assistant…

Making it harder for attackers to know when a system begins to deceive a bad actor

Can you deceive a deceiver? That’s the question that computer scientists at Binghamton University, State University of New York have recently been exploring. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Guanhua Yan and PhD student Zhan Shu are looking at how to make cyber deception a more effective tool against malicious hackers. Their study was inspired by…