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May 26

Building cybersecurity talent Opens in new window

This March, CyLab-Africa held the first-ever picoCTF-Africa cybersecurity competition in order to excite young Africans to pursue a career in the field of cybersecurity.

May 23

Towards having your privacy and security and exchanging crypto too

A CyLab postdoc developed a new protocol towards better privacy and security protections when swapping cryptocurrencies.

May 16

Cookie consent notices are actually unusable, according to science

A new study by CyLab researchers shows just how truly unusable cookie consent interfaces are.

May 11

Microsoft expands its strategic partnership

Microsoft has announced that it is expanding its partnership with Carnegie Mellon University CyLab in becoming a founding sponsor of CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative.

May 09

Lorrie Cranor receives honorary doctorate

Cranor received the honorary degree "for her relentless pursuit of making privacy and security usable..."

May 06

CMU hacking team wins MITRE cybersecurity competition

Carnegie Mellon’s competitive hacking team beat 31 other schools from around the world in designing a secure electronic device for aircrafts and attacking other teams’ designs.

May 03

Aryaka becomes strategic partner

The company will serve as a founding sponsor of Carnegie Mellon’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative.

Apr 28

CyLab researchers investigate Apple’s privacy labels

Roughly a year after Apple rolled out its privacy label requirements, CyLab researchers have gained a comprehensive look at the state of iOS privacy labels.

Apr 21

NSF awards CMU researchers $3M to accelerate next-gen networking, computing

CyLab researchers will use nearly $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help develop intelligent, resilient and reliable next-generation (NextG) networks.

Apr 19

Crossroads for data Opens in new window

The Intel/VMware Crossroads 3D-FPGA Academic Research Center has been formed to determine the role of FPGAs in extending the performance and efficiency of future datacenters

Apr 14

Over 18,000 people hacked their way through picoCTF 2022

Over 18,000 people participated in Carnegie Mellon University’s annual cybersecurity competition last month—including more than 6,000 middle and high school students.

Apr 08

Ripple becomes a founding sponsor of the CMU Secure Blockchain Initiative

The announcement comes three years after CMU announced a partnership with Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative.

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Apr 06

VMware to sponsor CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative

VMware recently announced it will be a founding sponsor of CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative, which has a mission of rethinking security across enterprise ecosystems through innovations in artificial intelligence, computer science, engineering, and human factors research.

Mar 25

CyLab researchers awarded AI security funding

CyLab’s Giulia Fanti, Corina Pasareanu, and Vyas Sekar have been awarded research funding from the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute.

Mar 17

Crypto.com becomes strategic partner

The company will serve as a founding sponsor of Carnegie Mellon CyLab’s Secure Blockchain Initiative.

Mar 08

World’s largest online hacking competition begins next week

picoCTF, the annual free online cybersecurity competition run by hacking experts in Carnegie Mellon’s CyLab, aims to introduce young minds across the nation to the world of cybersecurity and to build a pipeline of talent to a much-needed cyber workforce.

Mar 04

“Adulting” for cybersecurity, GANs, and more: CyLab’s 2022 seed funding awardees

Over $400K in seed funding has been awarded to 18 different faculty and staff across seven departments at Carnegie Mellon to support security and privacy research.

Mar 03

The (un)importance of online interview modes for security and privacy studies

In a rigorous new study just published in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of CyLab researchers show that that there is little evidence to suggest that interviews with crowd workers about sensitive topics are significantly impacted by the chosen online interview mode.

Feb 28

Algorand Foundation becomes strategic partner

The Foundation will serve as a founding sponsor of Carnegie Mellon CyLab’s Secure Blockchain Initiative.

Feb 22

Understanding the evolutionary roots of privacy

New research co-authored by CyLab researchers in the journal Science explores the concept of privacy not as a modern anomaly, but as a concept that spans time and space, social class, and degree of technological sophistication.

Feb 17

Engineering meets extreme reality Opens in new window

"Extreme reality engineering” is all about creating technology that can operate under some of the worst conditions imaginable.

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Feb 15

CyLab faculty named Intel’s 2021 Outstanding Researchers

CyLab faculty Justine Sherry, Vyas Sekar, and James Hoe have been selected among the winners of Intel’s 2021 Outstanding Researcher Award.

Feb 10

CMU hacking team competes in pentesting world finals

The competition pitted cybersecurity’s brightest students against one another to flex their technical, business, and communication prowess.

Jan 27

Why should we use password managers? We asked a security researcher.

The most common passwords in 2021 were (1) 123456, (2) 123456789, and (3) qwerty. We sat down with a CyLab researcher to better understand why password managers are such useful tools in securing our accounts, and why more of us should use them.

Jan 20

CyLab paper receives Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award

The paper captured people’s privacy expectations and preferences in the age of video analytics.

Jan 03

Rotem Guttman’s cyber forensics course is an immersive experience

INI students in Rotem Guttman’s “Cyber Forensics and Incident Response” capstone course are thrown into a fictional world to solve a cybersecurity case.

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