Category: Cybersecurity
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2022 NSA Codebreaker Challenge
The 2022 NSA Codebreaker Challenge is Underway The annual NSA Codebreaker Challenge consists of a series of tasks that are worth a varying amount of points based on their difficulty. Schools will be ranked according to the total number of points accumulated by their students. Solutions may be submitted at any time for the duration…
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Profs. Sherman and Oliva receive NSF award to study cybersecurity education
UMBC Professors Alan T. Sherman (PI, CSEE) and Linda Oliva (CO-PI, Education) received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study and improve how cybersecurity is taught at the U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Military Academy.
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UMBC faculty Karimi and Yus help team win 2nd place in Sandpit Challenge on Digital Trust
A research team that includes UMBC CSEE faculty Naghmeh Karimi and Roberto Yus won the second place prize in the 2022 INCS-CoE Sandpit Challenge on Digital Trust. The International Cyber Security Center of Excellence (INCS-CoE) is an international collaboration of government, industry, and academic organizations that have partnered to explore pioneering efforts to address cybersecurity…
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talk: More holes than cheese: Vulnerabilities of the e-voting system used in the 2022 French presidential election
Dr. Enka Blanchard will present the first security and privacy analysis of the Neovote e-voting system, which was used for three of the five primaries in the French 2022 presidential election.
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UMBC CIO Jack Suess interviewed on CyberTalk podcast
UMBC alumnus Mike Shelah (’95) interviewed UMBC’s CIO Jack Seuss on his CyberTalk podcast about how the University addresses evolving cybersecurity issues and how UMBC uses its students to build a talent pipeline.
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talk: Model Validation for DARPA DPRIVE
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Model Validation for DARPA DPRIVE Ian BlumenfeldUMBC and Two Six Technologies (joint work with Eric Bond, William Harrison, Chris Hathhorn, Paul Li, Matthew Torrence, and Jared Ziegler) 12–1 pm ET, Friday 6 May 2022, via WebEx Commodity hardware description languages (HDLs) like VHDL and Verilog present a challenge from…
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Cybersecurity CTF competition starts 1pm Friday 4/29
The UMBC Cyberdawgs will host a 48-hour Jeopardy-style Capture The Flag cybersecurity competition, online and in person for UMBC participants. DawgCTF 2022 will be a Jeopardy-style CTF, so things are pretty simple. Players register online, either in teams or alone. At 1300 EDT on April 29, 2022, the competition will open. Players will have access…
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UMBC researchers publish book on Cybersecurity & Local Government
UMBC researchers Donald Norris, Laura Mateczun, and Richard Forno have published a new book on the the risks of cyberattacks that local governments face and how they are addressing them. Their book Cybersecurity and Local Government published by WIley summarizes several years of research and surveys on the issues and practices of city, county, and…
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talk: Designing Quantum Resistant KeyExchange Protocols with CPSA, 12-1 Fri 4/15, online
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Designing Quantum Resistant KeyExchange Protocols with CPSA Dr. Edward Zieglar, CSEE, UMBC 12–1 pm, Friday, 15 April 2022online via WebEx With developments in quantum computers and algorithms, the public-key systems that we rely upon for secure network communication will become vulnerable to exploitation. Quantum-resistant key exchange protocols are needed…
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talk: Formal Methods Analysis of the Session Binding Proxy Protocol, 12-1 Fri 4/1
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents A Formal Methods Analysis of the Session Binding Proxy Protocol Kirellos N. Abou Elsaad, UMBC 12-1 pm, Friday, 1 April 2022, via WebEx Proposed by Burgers, Verdult, and Eekelen in 2013, the Session Binding Proxy (SBP) protocol intends to prevent session hijacking by binding the application session to the…