2020

Nov 24

Lorrie Cranor named AAAS Fellow Opens in new window

Lorrie Cranor has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for her contributions to usable privacy and security research, policy, and education.

Nov 23

CMU launches new privacy engineering options

CMU is offering two flexible options for privacy engineering education and training: a part-time privacy engineering master's degree, and a privacy engineering certificate.

Nov 20

CMU announces partnership with the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute

CyManII’s vision is to introduce a cybersecure energy-ROI for energy efficient manufacturing and supply chains that secures and sustains American leadership in global manufacturing competitiveness for decades.

Nov 05

World’s fastest open-source intrusion detection is here

Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab have developed the fastest-ever open-source intrusion detection system—one that achieves speeds of 100 gigabits per second using a single server.

Oct 30

Four years since the Mirai-Dyn attack…is the Internet safer?

Four years after the Mirai-Dyn attack that brought down much of the Internet, a team of CyLab researchers are assessing the Internet’s resilience if a similar attack were to occur today.

Oct 28

New tool simplifies data sharing, preserves privacy

According to a new study authored by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab and IBM, a new tool can help circumvent the privacy issue in data sharing.

Oct 20

Finally: a usable and secure password policy backed by science

After nearly a decade of studies, the passwords research group in Carnegie Mellon’s CyLab Security and Privacy Institute has developed a policy for creating passwords that maintains balance between security and usability—one backed by hard science.

Oct 15

Intelligent, automatic contact tracing Opens in new window

CMU ECE alumnus Patrick Lazik and his team at Yodel Labs have developed a system that creates contact networks to contain COVID-19.

Oct 08

Cyber defense is an art in human deception

CyLab's Coty Gonzalez and her research group presented two studies on cyber deception at this week’s Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual meeting. CyLab director Lorrie Cranor gave the meeting’s keynote talk.

Oct 02

Recognizing AI’s misinformation Opens in new window

What does cybersecurity have to do with human recognition of false data? A lot, says MechE’s Conrad Tucker, who teamed up with Challenger Center and RAND to study the link between the two.

Sep 30

Websites containing COVID info are tracking you

In a new study, CyLab's Tim Libert showed that 99 percent of websites that contained information regarding COVID-19 also contained code that shares user activity data with third parties, including advertisers.

Sep 28

picoCTF to hold 2020 Mini Competition in October

In celebration of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, picoCTF will be holding a mini competition during the month of October. The competition will consist of series of cybersecurity challenges of intermediate difficulty in the topics of reverse engineering, forensics, web, and binary exploitation problems.

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