Category: Cybersecurity
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MS Defense: Cybersecurity Assessment Tools, 11am 8/7
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County MS Thesis Defense in Computer Science Identifying Significant, Difficult and Timeless Concepts for Cybersecurity Assessment Tools: Results and Analysis of Two Delphi Processes Geet Parekh 11:00am Friday, 7 August 2015, ITE 228 As part of our ongoing project to create Cybersecurity Assessment Tools (CATs), we carried…
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GRA sought for DoD-funded cybersecurity education project
A 12-Month Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) is sought for 2015-2016 to work on a DoD-funded cybersecurity education project at UMBC. Position Highlights 9-month stipend: $18,752.94; 2.5 month summer stipend: $8,000. Hours: 20 hours/week (September 2015-May 2016) Benefits: tuition and mandatory fees, health insurance Eligibility: MS or PhD student at UMBC in CS, CE, EE,…
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Rick Forno discusses social media monitoring during Baltimore riots
Rick Forno, Graduate Program Director for Cybersecurity and Assistant Director of UMBC's Center for Cybersecurity spoke with the Baltimore Sun and Technical.ly Baltimore recently about hacktivism in the Baltimore riots and a recent ZeroFox report that analyzed social media to identify prominent activists, potential…
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UMBC offers cybersecurity research special topics course in Fall 2015
The UMBC CSEE department will offer a special research-oriented special topics course on Cybersecurity in Fall 2015 involving a mix of undergraduate and graduate students.
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UMBC receives DoD grant to develop cybersecurity education tools
CSEE faculty Alan Sherman and Dhananjay Phatak and Education Professor Linda Oliva received a research grant from the Department of Defense to create educational assessment tools to improve the teaching of cybersecurity. The one-year funded project is a collaboration with Geoffrey Herman at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The research is being carried out…
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Rick Forno discusses OPM data breach with Risky Business podcast
Last week, Rick Forno, CSEE's Cybersecurity Graduate Program Director and Assistant Director of UMBC's Center for Cybersecurity, joined Australian security journalist Pat Gray for a lengthy discussion on the Risky Business podcast about the OPM data breach, local reactions, and possible US cybersecurity responses to this significant and far-reaching security incident.
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DEFCON Talk: John Seymour on Quantum Classification of Malware, 3pm 7/17
This talk was accepted for DEFCON 2015 in Las Vegas later this month. However, for those interested here in the UMBC community, John will conduct an informal preview of his talk on Friday 7/17 at 3:00PM in ITE 366 (DREAM Lab). "Quantum" Classification of Malware John Seymour, UMBC 3:00pm Friday 17 July 2015, ITE 366…
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Rick Forno talks to NPR about military data privacy
Military's Use Of Social Security Numbers A Vulnerability For Veterans By Patricia Murphy – KUOW (Seattle Public Radio) A massive data breach at the federal Office of Personnel Management has exposed the Social Security numbers and personnel records of nearly every federal worker. The implications for federal employees, military service members and the intelligence community…
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Innovations in Cybersecurity Education Workshop, UMBC, Fri 6/12
UMBC will host a free one-day workshop on Innovations in Cybersecurity Education, 9:30-4:30 on Friday 12 June at UMBC's South Campus facility.
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UMBC cybersecurity graduate programs online info session, 6pm Tue June 16
Program director Rick Forno will discuss admissions, prerequisites, curriculum, class format, cybersecurity career outlook and more.