Category: Cybersecurity
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talk: Personal data at risk? App analytics to the rescue, 11:15 10/23
UMBC CSEE PhD student Prajit Das will talk on ‘Are your personal data at risk? App analytics to the rescue’ in the Cyber Defense Lab meeting at 11:15 on Friday, October 23.
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Kaizen Capture The Flag event 6:30-11:30 Thur 10/15
UMBC hosts Kaizen, a capture the flag event building information security skills via hands-on, interactive hacking challenges, Thursday evening from 6:30 to 11:30.
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talk: Hack, Play, Win: Lessons Learned Running The Maryland Cyber Challenge, 10/9
UMBC’s Rick Forno talk, Hack, Play, Win: Lessons Learned Running The Maryland Cyber Challenge, 11:15 Fri Oct 9, UMBC ITE 231
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talk: Is your personal data at risk? App analytics to the rescue
Prajit Kumar Das talks about his research on detecting Android malware: Is your personal data at risk? App analytics to the rescue, 10:30am Mon 9/28, ITE 346, UMBC
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Proposal: Vatcher, Verifiable Randomness and its Applications, 10:30 9/24
Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Verifiable Randomness and its Applications Christopher Vatcher 10:30am Thursday, 24 September 2015, ITE 325b We propose to create a public verifiable randomness beacon, to integrate with the Random-Sample Voting system, constructed to be secure against adversaries who have even almost complete control over the system’s source of public randomness including the entropy…
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Center of Academic Excellence Community online events, 1-3 Thr 9/17
The Center of Academic Excellence community will hold two online technical talks from 1-3:15pm Thur. Sept 17.
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talk: Mark Cather, Enterprise and Higher Education Security, 11:15 Fri 9/11 UMBC
UMBC’s Chief Information Security Officer Mark Cather will talk on ‘Enterprise and Higher Education Security’ at 11:15 Fri. Sept 11 in ITE 231 at UMBC.
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Anupam Joshi quoted in Nature news article on wearable technology
CSEE’s Anupam Joshi was interviewed and quoted in a news article in Nature: What could derail the wearables revolution?
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CSEE faculty comment on Ashley Madison data breach
CSEE faculty Anupam Joshi and Rick Forno were interviewed this week by several media outlets on the impact and cybersecurity aspects of the Ashley Madison data breach. Ashley Madison is a popular website with “more than 33 million members in 46 countries” that provides services “for married men and women looking to have a discreet affair.” Last month a…
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NSA Supports 2015 Maryland Cyber Challenge (MDC3)
Dr. Rick Forno, Graduate Cybersecurity Program Director and Assistant Director of UMBC's Center for Cybersecurity, has received a $45,000 grant from the National Security Agency (NSA) to fund the prizes for student winners at the 2015 Maryland Cyber Challenge (MDC3) finals taking place at the CyberMaryland 2015 conference in Baltimore on October 28-29. The…