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CyLab's Alessandro Acquisti & Co-Authors Release 7 Year Study on Evolution of Facebook Privacy and Disclosure
/news_events/news/2013/acquisti-7-year-study-facebook-privacy.htmlIn his latest study on Facebook, Acquisti, together with co-authors Gross and Stutzman, focuses on "the tension between privacy choices as expressions of individual subjective preferences, and the role of the environment in shaping those choices."
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CyLab Researchers Virgil Gligor and David Brumley Receive Honors
/news_events/news/2013/gligor-and-brumley-receive-honors.htmlCyLab Director Virgil Gligor has been selected to receive the 2013 IEEE Technical Achievement Award. CyLab researcher David Brumley is one of four Carnegie Mellon University faculty members awarded a prestigious 2013 Sloan Research Fellowship.
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CMU Privacy Day Highlights Challenges and Showcases Research
/news_events/news/2013/privacy-day-highlights-challenges.htmlData Privacy Day is an effort to empower people to protect their privacy and control their digital footprint and escalate the protection of privacy and data as everyone’s priority.
Lightning In A Bottle? A Brief Tour Of CyLab Online
posted by Richard Power
Indeed, CyLab is an audacious undertaking; and doing justice to such audacity has been quite a challenge. How do you sustain a narrative that is so complex? How do you communicate the prevailing spirit of the overall program, while at the same time documenting the painstaking progress of individual researchers?
Mike Farb Offers Insights Into SafeSlinger, CyLab's Powerful New Smartphone App
posted by Richard Power
"We want to provide secure operations even with careless users and powerful local adversaries who can monitor our messages and potentially alter our messages."
CyLab's Strong Presence Continues at Annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
posted by Richard Power
"In this paper, we present the Crossfire attack. This attack can effectively cut off the Internet connections of a targeted enterprise (e.g., a university campus, a military base, a set of energy distribution stations); it can also disable up to 53% of the total number of Internet connections of some US states, and up to about 33% of all the connections of the West Coast of the US."
CyLab Seminars Series Offers Vital Perspectives on Critical Issues in Cyber Security and Privacy
posted by Richard Power
On Mondays at noon, during the school year, CyLab presents its Seminar Series. These talks highlight the research of CyLab faculty, as well as, visiting scholars. In addition, through the CyLab Business Risks Forum, experts in security and privacy from business and government share vital operational perspectives.
After years of NCIS and other popular law enforcement TV dramas, there is an expectation that facial recognition technology could have led to a speedier conclusion to the Boston Marathon bombing suspect manhunt, or perhaps even have prevented the savage attack.
Lorrie Cranor - Spoofing Operating System Security Interfaces to Study User Security Behaviors
Michael Farb - SafeSlinger: Applied Ad-hoc Smartphone Trust Establishment
Jonathan McCune - Verifying the Integrity of Peripherals' Firmware
Pei Zhang - SensorFly and Beyond: Flying Sensing Systems in the Wild
cylab in the headlines
Facial recognition technology moving toward identifying almost anyone
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May 20, 2013 But when the FBI released blurry, off-angle images of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, researchers with Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Biometrics Center began trying to bring them into focus. Marios Savvides, director of the CMU CyLab Biometrics Center, told the Tribune-Review. “It's not exactly him, but it's also not a random face. It does fit him.”
"Big Brother" is big business?
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May 16, 2013 Professor Alessandro Acquisti of Carnegie Mellon CyLab, says smart-phones will make "facial searches" as common as Google searches in the future. "One of the participants, before doing the experiment, told us, 'You're not going to find me because I'm very careful about my photos online.' And we found him," says Acquisti, "Because someone else had uploaded a photo of him."
Study: 45 percent of Bitcoin exchanges end up closing
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April 26, 2013 The study said: "Exchanges handling 275 Bitcoins' worth of transactions each day have a 20 percent chance of being breached, compared to a 70 percent chance for exchanges processing daily transactions worth 5570 Bitcoins." Tyler Moore and Carnegie Mellon CyLab reseacher Nicholas Christin estimate that the median lifespan of any Bitcoin exchange is 381 days, with a 29.9 percent chance that a new exchange will close within a year of opening.
June 11, 2013: CERT Training Managing Enterprise Information Security: A Practical Approach for Achieving Defense-in-Depth This three-day course begins with a brief review of the conceptual foundations of information security. Next, students will be introduced to the CERT Defense-in-Depth Framework: eight operationally focused and interdependent management components which will be synergistically applied to a fictitious organization's Information Technology (IT) enterprise.
July 8, 2013: CERT Training Information Security for Technical Staff This five-day course is designed to provide participants with practical techniques for protecting the security of an organization's information assets and resources, beginning with concepts and proceeding on to technical implementations.
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