2019

Apr 23

Lorrie Cranor, Brian Kovak Named Andrew Carnegie Fellows

Carnegie Mellon University faculty members Lorrie Cranor and Brian K. Kovak have been named to the 2019 Class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a philanthropic foundation that has supported the advancement of education and knowledge for more than a century.

Apr 22

CMU women shine at Women in Cybersecurity Conference

Women make up about one-fifth of the national cybersecurity workforce. That statistic, coupled with Carnegie Mellon's accelerating number of women working in the field, may help explain why the annual Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) conference was hosted by Carnegie Mellon University last month. 

Apr 18

A new era for the Bosch Chair

Lorrie Cranor has received the Bosch Distinguished Professorship in Security and Privacy Technologies, enabling her to lead a new era of security and privacy research at the university.

Apr 04

Achieving provably-secure encryption

Earlier this week, a team consisting of researchers from CyLab released the world's first verifiably secure industrial-strength cryptographic library – a set of code that can be used to protect data and is guaranteed to protect against the most popular classes of cyberattacks.

Mar 26

Celebrating women in cybersecurity

CMU’s Lorrie Cranor and Dena Haritos Tsamitis will speak at this week’s Women in Cybersecurity Conference in Pittsburgh.

Mar 14

CMU partners with leading payments company Ripple to accelerate innovation in blockchain & cryptocurrency

Carnegie Mellon University has announced a partnership with Ripple's University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) to support academic research, technical development and innovation in blockchain, cryptocurrency and digital payments.

Mar 11

Blockchain Course Challenges Students To Create Apps for the Launch of CMU Cryptocurrency

Carnegie Mellon University researchers are tapping into many disparate applications of blockchain and cryptography to advance economic and business functions of this new technology.

Mar 08

Eight Carnegie Mellon faculty and staff spoke at this week's RSA Conference

Carnegie Mellon had a big showing at this week's RSA Conference in San Francisco with eight faculty and staff members from across the university spoke about topics ranging from security and human behavior to the security of robot-produced code.

Mar 05

CyLab's Gligor and Woo receive Distinguished Paper Award for breakthrough result on establishing "root of trust"

In a breakthrough study, "Establishing Root of Trust Unconditionally," CyLab researchers Virgil Gligor and Maverick Woo present a test that can be run on any computing device to show whether the device has been infected with malware or not.

Feb 20

2019 Dean’s Early Career Fellows

Three young faculty members have been granted the 2019 Dean’s Early Career Fellowship to enable their continued contributions to their respective fields.

Feb 19

CyLab study: How the Twitter community stopped fake news about Oscar-nominated "Black Panther"

On February 16, 2018, mere hours after Academy Award-nominated "Black Panther" first released to theaters, fake news trolls and malicious social media bots went to work.

Jan 30

Building a verifiably-secure internet

In security, almost nothing is guaranteed. It's impossible to test the infinite ways a criminal hacker may penetrate a proverbial firewall. But what if, by the laws of mathematics, something could be proven to be secure without running an infinite number of test cases?

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