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May 13

CMU hacking team wins unprecedented fourth straight title at MITRE cybersecurity competition

For the fourth consecutive year, Carnegie Mellon’s competitive hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), has taken home the top prize at the MITRE Embedded Capture-the-Flag (eCTF) cybersecurity competition. CMU’s win marks the first time in the 10-year history of the MITRE eCTF competition that a team has won four consecutive titles.

May 08

Carnegie Mellon University re-designated as a National Center for Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity for Cyber Research through 2029 and Cyber Operations through 2030

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has once again earned two national distinctions from the National Center for Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C): Cyber Research (CAE-R) and Cyber Operations (CAE-CO). This program, managed by the National Security Agency (NSA), recognizes colleges and universities that uphold the highest standards for cybersecurity education and academic excellence.

Apr 30

Cybersecurity educators should share resources to teach students important technical and non-technical skills

In a new article, researchers argue that cybersecurity educators need to share teaching resources to teach students critical technical and non-technical skills, and they describe a course they created that allows for such sharing to take place.

Apr 28

Purpose Mode helps social media users stay focused on their desired tasks

A CMU research team has developed Purpose Mode — a browser extension that allows users to “toggle off” Attention Capture Damaging Patterns (ACDPs) while using social media platforms.

Apr 25

Space-tolerant computer chips Opens in new window

Researchers develop microelectronics for space and aerospace applications.

Apr 16

Michael Mattarock joins CMU INI as its new associate director

Michael Mattarock, CyLab faculty member, has joined the Information Networking Institute (INI) as its new associate director and assistant teaching professor.

Apr 04

Protecting audio privacy at the source

To allow audio sensing without compromising privacy, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed an on-device filter, called Kirigami, that can detect and delete human speech segments collected by audio sensors before they're used for activity recognition.

Apr 01

CyLab researchers win Test of Time Award at USEC 2025

A team featuring CyLab researchers was honored with the Test of Time Award at the 2025 Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC 2025).

Mar 25

CyLab announces third round of Secure Blockchain Initiative funded projects

Carnegie Mellon University's Secure Blockchain Initiative (SBI) has announced its third round of funded proposals, providing $130K to six groundbreaking research projects that are exploring the security and privacy of distributed ledger technology.

Mar 14

CyLab researchers present at ACM CHI 2025

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute researchers will present nine papers and teach one course at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025).

Mar 03

picoCTF capture-the-flag competition prepares students for rewarding careers in cybersecurity

picoCTF’s 12th annual capture-the-flag hacking competition for middle school, high school, and college students will take place from March 7 through March 17. Students interested in participating can register now by signing up for a free account at picoctf.org.

Feb 28

A cybersecurity question answering assistant that motivates users to follow its advice

A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers is studying prompt engineering techniques that could coax large language models (LLMs) to generate more effective answers to everyday cybersecurity questions.

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Feb 21

Understanding YouTube giveaway scams: are teens more susceptible?

A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently conducted human subjects research to learn more about the nature of YouTube giveaway scams, and determine whether teens are more susceptible to falling for them than adults.

Feb 20

Moderating content for end-to-end encryption

Sarah Scheffler, assistant professor of Software and Societal Systems and Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, is currently conducting research that explores alternative content moderation methods for end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) that are still private and secure.

Jan 28

CyLab faculty, students to present at NDSS Symposium 2025

Carnegie Mellon faculty and students will present on a wide range of topics at the 32nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium. Held at Wyndham San Diego Bayside from February 24th through the 28th, the event fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security.

Jan 23

CyLab awards 2025 seed funding

This year, CyLab has awarded more than $400K in seed funding to 16 CMU students, faculty, and staff members from five departments at the university.

Jan 23

Fostering the next generation of thinkers in digital identity Opens in new window

CMU-Africa's Upanzi Network and MicroSave Consulting (MSC) have developed a series of regional hackathons across Africa to uncover some of these untapped opportunities through new innovative digital ID use cases.

Jan 15

CMU and CLP Celebrate International Data Privacy Day on January 26

In celebration of International Privacy Day, Carnegie Mellon University is collaborating with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) to host Data Privacy Day 2025 on Sunday, January 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at CLP-Main (Oakland).

Jan 08

Improving privacy for digital public goods Opens in new window

Researchers with the Upanzi Network have developed recommendations for the Digital Public Goods Alliance to increase transparency about users’ data privacy.

Jan 06

Student bug bounty discovery supports picoCTF’s cybersecurity education efforts with $462,000 gift

Seunghyun Lee, a first-year Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department, recently discovered a series of bugs in Google Chrome's WebAssembly type system that earned him a bug bounty, which he generously donated to CMU's picoCTF cybersecurity education platform.

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