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Week in review: NIST proposes new vulnerabilities metric, flaws in NASA’s open source software

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Vulnerabilities found in NASA’s open source software Vulnerabilities in open source software developed and used in-house by NASA could be exploited to breach their systems, claims Leon Juranić, security researcher and founder of cybersecurity startup ThreatLeap. NIST proposes new metric to gauge exploited vulnerabilities NIST has introduced a new way to estimate which software vulnerabilities have likely been exploited, and … More → The post Week in review: NIST proposes new vulnerabilities metric, flaws in NASA’s open source software appeared first on Help Net Security.
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A PNG Image With an Embedded Gift, (Sat, May 31st)

While hunting, I found an interesting picture. It's a PNG file that was concatenated with two interesting payloads. There are file formats that are good candidates to have data added at the end of the file. PNG is the case because the file format specifications says:
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Engineers develop self-healing muscle for robots

Students recently unveiled their invention of a robotic actuator — the ‘muscle’ that converts energy into a robot’s physical movement — that has the ability to detect punctures or pressure, heal the injury and repair its damage-detecting ‘skin.’
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IRS Direct File sees higher scores among users, despite a push to shutter it

The future of Direct File is uncertain, but its source code is now available to the public on GitHub.  The post IRS Direct File sees higher scores among users, despite a push to shutter it first appeared on Federal News Network.
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IRS Direct File sees higher scores among users, despite a push to shutter it

The future of Direct File is uncertain, but its source code is now available to the public on GitHub.  The post IRS Direct File sees higher scores among users, despite a push to shutter it first appeared on Federal News Network.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/TL4cK0

DHS budget request would cut CISA staff by 1,000 positions

Budget documents show DHS wants to reduce CISA funding in areas like cyber training and stakeholder engagement. The post DHS budget request would cut CISA staff by 1,000 positions first appeared on Federal News Network.
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DHS budget request would cut CISA staff by 1,000 positions

Budget documents show DHS wants to reduce CISA funding in areas like cyber training and stakeholder engagement. The post DHS budget request would cut CISA staff by 1,000 positions first appeared on Federal News Network.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/TL4bwl