Category: Cybersecurity
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UMBC Cyber Dawgs to hold student cybersecurity competition on Saturday, March 11
The UMBC Cyber Dawgs will hold a cybersecurity Capture the Flag competition on Saturday, March 11th from 9am-5pm in the Public Policy building. The event will be a jeopardy-style competition where individual competitors answer questions about aspects of cybersecurity, including network forensics, reverse engineering, reconnaissance, and cryptography. The competition is open to all current UMBC…
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UMBC CSEE alumnus Josiah Dykstra receives PECASE award for cybercrime work
Josiah Dykstra, Ph.D. ‘13, computer science, has received the prominent Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) for his work on digital forensics cloud computing, with applications in tackling cybercrime. While he was a graduate student at UMBC, Dykstra worked full-time at the National Security Agency, where he remains a cybersecurity researcher, but…
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talk: Securing Networks by Detecting Logical Flaws in Protocol Implementations
Securing Networks by Detecting Logical Flaws in Protocol Implementations Dr. Endadul Hoque Postdoctoral Research Associate, Northeastern University 12:00pm Wednesday, 22 February 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC Implementations of network protocols are integral components of various networked computing systems, spanning from Internet-of-Things (IoT) to enormous data centers. Research efforts to defend these implementations by introducing new designs…
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talk: Cybersecurity and Cellular Technology, 6pm 2/23 Shady Grove
UMBC Cybersecurity Program Cyber Talk Cybersecurity and Cellular Technology Joshua Franklin 6:00-8:00pm Thursday, 23 February 2017 The Universities at Shady Grove Building III (Camille Kendall Academic Center) Room 3241 9636 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD 20850 The UMBC Cybersecurity Program is proud to bring you Cyber Talk, a new speaker series that highlights special topics in…
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talk: Accountability and Data Privacy in the Life Cycle of Big Data
Towards End-to-End Security and Privacy: Accountability and Data Privacy in the Life Cycle of Big Data Taeho Jung Department of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology 11:00am Tuesday, 14 February 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC The advent of big data has given birth to numerous innovative life-enhancing applications, but the big data is often called as a…
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UMBC’s Cyber Scholars program stands out as a national model in “Diverse”
At a time when just 12 percent of information security analysts are black, Hispanic or Asian, and only 20 percent of information security analysts are women, successful student support programs like UMBC’s Cyber Scholars are poised to make a major impact on the field, suggests a new article in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.…
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CSEE faculty on securing the president’s smartphone and avoiding “cyber-fatigue”
Professor Anupam Joshi, chair of the CSEE Department and director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity With a new administration in the White House, securing the president’s smartphone is a national security priority, but exactly what steps are taken to secure the phone are not made public. In a new article in The Conversation, Anupam…
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Talk: Lexumo Continuous Open Source Code Security
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Lexumo Tech Talk: Continuous Open Source Code Security Dr. Richard T. Carback III Lexumo, Inc. 11:15am Friday, 16 December 2016, ITE 237, UMBC Lexumo is a startup which provides the only automated service that continuously monitors IoT software platforms for the latest public vulnerabilities. Funded in January of 2016…
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Attacking and Defending the Automotive CAN Bus
MS Thesis Defense Attacking and Defending the Automotive CAN Bus Jackson Schmandt 12:30pm Thursday, 8 December, 2016, ITE 325b, UMBC The scope and complexity of Automotive Computer Networks have grown drastically in the last decade. Once present only in high end vehicles, multi-use infotainment systems are now included in base models of some economy vehicles.…
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UMBC cybersecurity instructor selected for prestigious Brookings Legis Congressional Fellows Program
Diana Parr, adjunct instructor in UMBC’s Cybersecurity Graduate Program, has been selected to participate in the highly competitive Brookings Legis Congressional Fellows Program. The year-long program allows professionals in the public and private sectors to work on Capitol Hill alongside individual members of the U.S. Congress or on a congressional committee to understand the policy-making…