Dec 17
“Katalyst” will be featured in this year’s picoCTF, an annual cybersecurity competition for middle and high school students created and run by CyLab.
Dec 14
Gaining a better understanding of how to study users in security contexts is exactly what has brought Birrell to Carnegie Mellon. She began a 12-month sabbatical with CyLab this Fall.
Nov 23
In a new study presented at last week’s ACM CCS conference, Ph.D. student Matthew Weidner defined a new security protocol that could bring this idea of decentralized secure group messaging to fruition.
Nov 19
CyLab researchers have developed a fast, cheap, and easy-to-access method to catch privacy issues early in a system’s development process.
Nov 09
CyLab’s Alessandro Acquisti shares his thoughts around the privacy issues Facebook is facing today.
Nov 04
The mission of Cisco Research, the research arm of multinational tech leader Cisco Systems, is to foster research collaborations with “the best university researchers in the field.” Thus, the company has announced a new partnership with Carnegie Mellon University CyLab.
Oct 29
The partnership will focus on early-stage research in object, body, and behavior recognition.
Oct 26
A new CyLab study aims to capture what “normal” Internet browsing looks like to better understand how people are led to download malicious content, and to come up with ways to prevent that from happening.
Oct 21
CyLab's Mary Ann Blair doesn’t wear a badge or a police uniform, but her mission is to protect and serve the Carnegie Mellon University community.
Oct 13
Next week, the Collaboratory Against Hate - Research and Action Center will be taking part in the inaugural Eradicate Hate Global Summit, a hybrid event focused on exchanging ideas around eradicating hate taking place at the David Lawrence Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh.
Oct 07
In celebration of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a collection of CyLab faculty have shared some tips they recommend following to stay safe online.
Oct 06
Amazon Research Awards provide funding, access to Amazon public datasets, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning services and tools.
Oct 04
The publication highlights research, talks, papers, and other key events that have taken place within the CyLab community over the past 12 months.
Sep 30
The N2Women’s Rising Stars recognizes junior researchers—those with less than 10 years’ experience after Ph.D. completion—in the networking and communications field who have displayed an exceptional start to their careers.
Sep 22
The team behind picoCTF, CyLab’s educational platform aiming to bring more people into the field of cybersecurity, made sure its platform was present at this year’s conference for Women in Cybersecurity.
Sep 15
Sep 14
The prestigious award recognizes 10 promising early-career academic researchers who lead some of the most important technology research of our time.
Aug 31
The co-founder and CEO of security company DataVisor has been selected to receive the 2021 CyLab Distinguished Alumni Award.
Aug 20
Roughly a dozen undergraduate students from as many colleges and universities around the country pursued security and/or privacy-focused research projects in this year’s REU program at CMU.
Carnegie Mellon researchers are working to design networks that keep our ever-increasing numbers of connected devices safe and secure.
Aug 19
In general, people are somewhat aware of facial recognition technologies and tend to have mixed feelings about them, according to new research out of Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab.
Aug 13
A team of CyLab researchers have created “Capture,” a software architecture to help protect IoT devices from using code from vulnerable software libraries.
Aug 11
Four high-achieving CyLab Ph.D. students pursuing security and/or privacy-related research have been awarded CyLab Presidential Fellowships.
Aug 09
Carnegie Mellon’s hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), placed 2nd this weekend in the annual DefCon cybersecurity conference’s Capture the Flag competition, widely regarded as the “Olympics of Hacking.”
Jul 30
In a new study presented this week at the Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, Cai and two co-authors show how cybersecurity data can be heard in the form of music.
Jul 29
The FTC selected fewer than 20 papers to be presented at this year’s PrivacyCon, and two of them were written by CyLab researchers.
Jul 22
A team of CyLab researchers conducted a study exploring the tensions that may arise between device owners and incidental users, who may or may not be comfortable as incidental users.
Jul 19
A new study by Carnegie Mellon University CyLab researchers aimed to learn about users' awareness of data practices, how they felt about them, and how much control they perceived to have over them.
Jul 15
According to a new study out of CyLab, people hold a myriad of misconceptions about the security and privacy tools out there meant to help protect our privacy and online security.
Jul 09
A team of CyLab researchers have designed a new tool that automatically checks for memory bugs—the types of bugs that can lead to buffer overflow exploits, a commonly deployed cyberattack.
Jun 18
More than 500 people gathered virtually at last week’s PEPR conference, perhaps the largest gathering of privacy engineers ever.
Jun 17
Lorrie Cranor believes that bathrooms—these very intimate spaces for people of all ages—are surprisingly useful for conveying concepts related to both privacy and usability.
Jun 15
The trek towards the holy grail of cybersecurity—a user-friendly computing environment where the guarantee of security is as strong as a mathematical proof—is making big strides.
Jun 14
Aurelia Augusta, co-advised by CyLab’s Lorrie Cranor, works to improve online experiences.
Jun 10
Internet performance suffered substantially during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University published this week in the Journal of Information Policy.
Jun 07
The new class of vulnerabilities was disclosed in a new study presented at last month’s IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, held virtually.
May 28
This year’s Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) Conference will be co-hosted by CyLab and the Future of Privacy Forum, and will be held virtually June 10-11.
May 26
The study, presented at this week’s IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, helps bridge the gap between experts’ knowledge and consumers’ understanding of privacy and security risks.
May 13
In a new study presented at this week’s ACM CHI conference, CyLab researchers outlined a set of standards and taxonomy to help alleviate the void in guidance that still leaves privacy choices muddied for users.
May 11
The study, which explores people’s understandings, attitudes, and reactions to prison surveillance, received an Honorable Mention award at this week’s Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) conference.
Apr 23
Last month, picoCTF, which over the course of nearly a decade has become the world’s largest online hacking competition, held its 2021 competition.
Apr 22
As the world continues its trend toward digitization, Carnegie Mellon University has announced the launch of a new research partnership with Rolls-Royce and Purdue University to focus on enhancing the security of embedded system platforms.
Apr 21
Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute today announced the appointment of Gregory J. Touhill as director of the SEI’s CERT Division.
Apr 19
On a busy day, over $100 billion in these derivatives are traded, rivaling the daily volume traded in the New York Stock Exchange, according to a new study authored by Carnegie Mellon University CyLab researchers.
Apr 05
A new study by Conrad Tucker shows that patterns in which information is shared online may indicate the information’s authenticity.
Mar 31
Corina Pasareanu, a researcher in CyLab, has received a Test of Time Award from the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS).
Mar 22
A groundbreaking law that gives consumers more agency over the sale of their private information was updated in California this week, and it reflects the work of two university teams.
Mar 17
Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh are jointly launching a new center to study extremist hate. Scholars at both universities will partner through the Collaboratory Against Hate—Research and Action Center to develop effective tools that inhibit hate’s creation, growth, and destructive consequences.
Mar 09
picoCTF 2021 begins March 16 at 12 p.m. and concludes March 30 at 3 p.m. ET. Participation is free, and all one needs to participate is a computer with basic Internet access.
Mar 08
Lujo Bauer, Matt Fredrikson, and Cleotilde Gonzalez are part of a team of researchers that was named a winner of a prestigious US Department of Defense (DoD) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award.
Feb 26
Carnegie Mellon CyLab’s Secure and Private IoT Initiative (IoT@CyLab) has announced its third round of funding, which will support 12 Internet of Things (IoT)-related projects for one year.
Feb 25
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) CyLab and CMU-Africa have established the CyLab-Africa initiative, which aims to improve the cybersecurity of financial systems in Africa and other emerging economies.
Feb 22
Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering is excited to celebrate Engineers’ Week 2021.
Feb 19
Over $350K in seed funding has been awarded to 14 different faculty and staff in seven different departments across three colleges at CMU.
Jan 25
A new programming language developed by CyLab Ph.D. student Ankush Das aims to reduce the number of errors made in smart contracts.
Jan 12
Recent work by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University CyLab has shown that it is possible to use machine learning techniques to automatically extract and classify some of these opt-out choices, and introduces a new, handy browser extension.
Jan 07
The Cognitive Science Society announced seven research scientists, including CyLab’s Cleotilde Gonzalez, as 2021 Fellows. Gonzalez joins a selected group of 120 researchers, who have been recognized for their sustained excellence and impact on the cognitive science community.
