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Three New YouTube & iTunes Videos Showcase CyLab Seminar Series
/news_events/news/2012/new-videos-showcase-seminar-series.htmlEvery week, during the academic year, the CyLab Seminar Series provides updates on the latest research by our faculty, as well as by visiting scholars from other prestigious institutions.
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CyLab’s New Smartphone app, SafeSlinger Empowers Users’ to Strengthen Their Own Security and Privacy
/news_events/news/2012/cylabs-new-smartphone-app-safeslinger.htmlCyLab researchers have developed and released a new smartphone app to provide users with a free and easy to use means for secure messaging and file transfer.
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CyLab Research, Again, Has Big Impact on IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy
/news_events/news/2012/ieee-symposium-security-privacy.htmlThe 33rd annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy will be held from May 20th to May 23rd, 2012, in San Francisco. Seven papers authored or co-authored by CyLab researchers will be presented in the course of the three-day program ...
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."
Anthony Rowe on Wireless Sensor Networks for Building Energy Management
posted by Richard Power
"Imagine having sensors all over the environment, telling you where the energy is going and what devices are using it. We can look for anomalies in the system. We can look at patterns over time."
A Report from the 8th Annual CyLab Partners Conference
posted by Richard Power
“Today’s Internet does a very good job of supporting evolution at the link level, the wires or the lack of wires (in the case of wireless), but the fact of the matter is we have had equally dramatic improvements in storage and computing technology, but it is very difficult to introduce this inside the Internet in a clean fashion. ”
“We're not sure how many actual individuals are behind those [online] pharmacies, but advertisers and pharmacies seem to be two distinct entities; and given that there are not that many large advertisers, it may make sense to try to take them down, and stop the flow of traffic to online pharmacies, rather than going after the pharmacy operators themselves.”
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
Anthony Rowe - Wireless Sensor Networks for Building Energy Management
Norman Sadeh - Can Social Networking and Privacy be Reconciled?
Nicolas Christin - Analyzing Search-Engine Manipulation Campaigns
Lorrie Cranor - 15 Years of Privacy Notice and Choice
cylab in the headlines
CMU professor tells Congress Social Security IT should embrace the cloud
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May 10, 2012 "In the 30 years since many of the existing (Social Security Administration) systems were first stood up, storage capacities, network bandwidth, processing power, and the cost of these things have all improved by between 4 and 6 orders of magnitude," Carnegie Mellon CyLab researcher William Scherlis said in written testimony. "That’s a factor of a million. If skyscrapers increased in height by that factor, they would scrape the moon."
The Post-Cash, Post-Credit-Card Economy
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April 28, 2012 Alessandro Acquisti, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon CyLab smiled. If today all you need to do is enter your phone number and PIN when you visit a store, perhaps tomorrow, he said, that store will be able to detect your phone by its unique identifier as soon as you enter. Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, he went on, you won’t have to shop at all. Your vast piles of shopping data would be instead collected, analyzed and used to tell you exactly what you need: a new motorcycle from Ducati, perhaps, or purple rain boots in the next size for your growing child. Money will be seamlessly taken from your account. A delivery will arrive at your doorstep.
Big Mac Attack: Apple Security Bruised after OS X Infections
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April 25, 2012 "In the computer community we've been saying for five, six, seven years that Mac is not more immune to computer viruses than Windows PCs or even Linux boxes, " says Nicolas Christin, researcher at Carnegie Mellon CyLab. "The only reason Macs were not massively targeted is that they didn't have enough of a market share to make them interesting for a hacker to devote resources to try to compromise those machines. Now that they've acquired a fairly sizeable market share, it makes sense that the bad guys would focus some attention on the Mac platform."
Security, Privacy and Mobility in the Information Age
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Upcoming events
May 15, 2012: 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. This course is designed for individuals charged with implementing information security throughout the IT enterprise. Therefore, this course is an ideal pursuit for IT and Security managers, and/or system administrators and IT security personnel who would like to step up to the management level.
June 9, 2012: Celebration CMU Silicon Valley 10th Anniversary Celebration Join us on Saturday, June 9, 2012 to celebrate the rich history of CMU and its impact on the west coast! We will host the 10th anniversary event on the campus at Moffett Field beginning at 3:30 PM. All attendees are welcome to participate in the festivities.
July 11, 2012: Symposium Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2012 The eigth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) will be held July 11th through July 13th at the AAAS building in Washington, DC. SOUPS brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy. Visit the SOUPS 2012 website for details.
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