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Aug 14

CMU's Plaid Parliament of Pwning places 2nd at DefCon

Carnegie Mellon's competitive hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), placed 2nd overall at the 26th annual DefCon security conference hacking competition, widely considered the "World Series of Hacking." The competition was held August 9 – 12 in Las Vegas.

Aug 09

Student by day, crocheter by evening, hacker by night

CyLab's Carolina Zarate to help PPP shatter records at this year's DefCon.

Aug 07

From high school hacker to DefCon champ

CyLab's Zach Wade to help PPP shatter records at this year's DefCon.

Aug 01

Study provides a glimpse into how people think about privacy

In 2014, Lorrie Cranor and her graduate students asked hundreds of people ranging from age 5 to 91 to draw their own illustration of privacy as part of her "Privacy Illustrated" project. CyLab's Maggie Oates has spent the last couple months analyzing what it all means.

Jul 27

Overcoming the human bottleneck with autonomy

On August 4, 2016, the mission of cyber autonomy was declared accomplished. Meanwhile, back in Pittsburgh, a CyLab graduate student quietly hacked away at her own research in cyber autonomy.

Jul 20

CMU, Bossa Nova to apply AI to retail analytics

CMU has announced a research partnership with Bossa Nova to develop and integrate artificial intelligence into service robots in retail stores nationwide.

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Jul 05

Indoor location, location, location

Carnegie Mellon sweeps the competition at the 2018 Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition.

Jun 28

Africa's first university-level blockchain course helps spread trusted tech throughout continent

Blockchain technologies have been touted by many as a huge advancement in trust – something that can create trust where it didn't exist before. That's exactly why Carnegie Mellon made sure it would be the first to offer a university-level course on it in Africa.

May 30

Your smart home may soon have a smarter way to pair your devices

"Do you feel what I hear?" That’s a phrase that devices in smart homes may be asking each other in the future as a way to pair themselves without any assistance.

May 25

CMU hosts 11th Workshop on Security and Human Behavior

The eleventh Workshop on Security and Human Behavior kicked off this week on Carnegie Mellon University’s Pittsburgh campus, bringing together computer scientists, security engineers, economists, psychologists, and other scholars around the world interested in understanding the interplay between security and human behavior.

May 18

CMU Student Discovers Website Leaking Locations of Cell Phone Customers

Some cybersleuthing by Robert Xiao, a Ph.D. student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, uncovered a security vulnerability on the website of LocationSmart, a Carlsbad, Calif., company that provides a service for identifying the real-time location of mobile phones in the United States and Canada.

May 01

What happens when you deploy 2-factor authentication at a university?

“It’s not actually that horrible,” one survey respondent said about using a security feature called 2-factor authentication (2FA) to access their Carnegie Mellon account.

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Apr 30

Is there privacy in a world of self-driving cars?

The general population welcomes AVs, but not how they treat data privacy. Cara Bloom discusses policy options.

Apr 24

Understanding the cybersecurity grapevine

When people get word of an online data breach, men are far more likely to share that news with their colleagues and women are much more likely to share it with family and significant others, CyLab researchers report.

Apr 19

Fourteen years later, Pasareanu’s automated software-testing work awarded for retrospective impact

Fourteen years ago, CyLab associate research professor Corina Pasareanu and two of her colleagues published a paper outlining three automated techniques for checking software for bugs and vulnerabilities. This month, Pasareanu and her colleagues are receiving the 2018 Retrospective Impact Award from the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA).

Apr 12

CMU-Africa and Facebook co-host cybersecurity hackathon in Rwanda

Last week, Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University Africa hosted a cybersecurity-themed hackathon in Kigali, Rwanda, with the goal of engaging and inspiring students to become more involved in cybersecurity. During the 24-hour hackathon, students were challenged with identifying a security problem in any industry currently affecting Rwanda and/or other African countries and developing a solution.

Apr 02

Improving cybersecurity with machine learning

Mahmood Sharif has been named a 2018 Symantec Research Lab Graduate Fellow and will continue his research in machine learning and cybersecurity in collaboration with Symantec.

Mar 28

CyLab’s Lorrie Cranor receives the IAPP 2018 Leadership Award

The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) has named Lorrie Cranor the recipient of the 2018 Leadership Award. Cranor, a professor in the Institute for Software Research and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy, accepted the award at the IAPP’s Global Privacy Summit on March 27.

Mar 15

CyLab's Nicolas Christin to testify before Congress on cybercrime

CyLab’s Nicolas Christin, an associate research professor in the Institute for Software Research and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy, will be delivering a testimony before Congress today at 2 p.m., March 15, 2018, in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C.

Mar 09

Proofpoint Acquires CMU Spinoff Wombat Security for $225 Million

Proofpoint Inc., a leading cybersecurity company, has completed its acquisition of a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff, Wombat Security Technologies Inc., for $225 million. The deal was announced by Proofpoint last month.

Mar 06

INI Director to Appear on March 9 WQED Cyber-Safety Webcast

Dr. Dena Haritos Tsamitis, director of the Information Networking Institute (INI), will appear on a live webcast of WQED's nationally-distributed television program iQ: smartparent on March 9, 2018 at 11:30 a.m. EST. The episode - "Cyber-Safety: Privacy, Protection, and the Latest Laws Affecting Children and Families" - will be available at www.iqsmartparent.org/webcasts beginning at 11:30 a.m. EST on March 9.

Mar 01

Carnegie Mellon researchers create an AI to help us make sense of privacy policies

If you’re anything like the average Internet user, you probably didn’t spend the estimated 244 hours it would take to read every privacy policy for every website you visited last year. That’s exactly why a team led by Carnegie Mellon University just launched an interactive website aimed at helping users make sense of their privacy on the web.

Feb 23

CyLab’s Lorrie Cranor and her student Blase Ur win top SIGCHI awards

Lorrie Cranor, a professor in the Institute for Software Research and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy, is this year’s recipient of the Social Impact Award from the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction (SIGCHI). Cranor’s former Societal Computing Ph.D. student Blase Ur won the group’s Outstanding Dissertation Award.

Feb 21

CyLab team develops promising tool to help prevent cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks

Right now, go to Google.com, search for something (anything) and then look at the search results’ URL. It’s a jumbled mess of numbers, letters, and characters, right? That mess of characters is coordinating the creation of the webpage, displaying a customized list of results based on what you searched for.

Feb 20

Marculescu is Kavčić-Moura Professor

Radu Marculescu is one of four Carnegie Mellon University faculty members that have been appointed to new Kavčić-Moura Professorships.

Feb 15

CyLab’s Bryan Parno receives 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship

CyLab’s Bryan Parno is one of five Carnegie Mellon recipients of the 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship.

Feb 08

INI students help build BitClave’s blockchain network

INI students worked with blockchain start-up BitClave to drive the company’s development in new directions.

Jan 31

CyLab’s Jessica Colnago named 2018 Emerging Scholar

CyLab’s Jessica Colnago and School of Computer Science student Xiaolong Wang are among 23 Ph.D. students named Facebook Fellows and Emerging Scholar award winners for 2018. Three additional SCS students were finalists.

Jan 26

Former presiding FISA court judge discusses security and privacy at CMU

Last week, former presiding judge at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court Reggie B. Walton spoke to an auditorium full of eager security and privacy researchers. Walton’s talk, titled “The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court: Myth Versus Reality,” touched on a number of themes around the court, including privacy and national security.

Jan 23

Carnegie Mellon hosts fifth International Data Privacy Day celebration

As information about our ourselves and our daily lives continues to become increasingly digitized, Carnegie Mellon University will host its fifth celebration of International Data Privacy Day on Friday, January 26th.

Jan 15

Smarter networks to connect the edge to the cloud

Carnegie Mellon University will lead a $27.5 million Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) initiative to build more intelligence into computer networks.

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