{"id":241767,"date":"2026-07-29T04:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/computer-scientists-design-a-cyberattack-to-prevent-cyberattacks"},"modified":"2026-07-29T04:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:11:27","slug":"computer-scientists-design-a-cyberattack-to-prevent-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/computer-scientists-design-a-cyberattack-to-prevent-cyberattacks","title":{"rendered":"Computer scientists design a cyberattack to prevent cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/computer-scientists-design-a-cyberattack-to-prevent-cyberattacks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Protecting sensitive, precision-timed computing systems requires understanding the nature of cyberthreats. So researchers from Washington State University teamed up with experts at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs and Metro State University to design an attack\u2014dubbed NosyNeighbor\u2014that lurks on the sidelines of time- and safety-critical computer systems, \u201cinfers\u201d what\u2019s happening inside and adapts its malicious approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protecting sensitive, precision-timed computing systems requires understanding the nature of cyberthreats. So researchers from Washington State University teamed up with experts at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs and Metro State University to design an attack\u2014dubbed NosyNeighbor\u2014that lurks on the sidelines of time- and safety-critical computer systems, \u201cinfers\u201d what\u2019s happening inside and adapts its malicious [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}