Category: Cybersecurity
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PhD proposal: User Identification in Wireless Networks
Christopher Swartz will present his Ph.D. dissertation proposal, User Identification in Wireless Networks, at 9am on Friday, February 27 in ITE325b.
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Rick Forno discusses cybersecurity on NPR
Last week, health insurance giant Anthem revealed that the personal information of as many as 80 million customers was stolen by hackers. This news came just days before President Obama announced the creation of a new agency to analyze and counter cyber threats. In this hour, we look at Obama’s cybersecurity agenda, and the cyber-security…
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talk: Chaum's Protocol for Detecting Man-in-the-Middle, 12pm Fri 1/30
Chaum’s Protocol for Detecting Man-in-the-Middle: Explanation, Demonstration, and Timing Studies for a Text-Messaging Scenario Prof. Alan T. Sherman UMBC Cyber Defense Lab 12-1pm Friday, 30 January 2015, ITE 228, UMBC We explain, demonstrate, and evaluate Chaum’s 2006 protocol for detecting a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) of text-messaging network communications. MitM attacks pose serious risks to many network…
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Anupam Joshi responds to SOTU remarks on cybersecurity
Last week President Barack Obama gave his annual State of the Union Address. Not surprisingly, among the things his address touched on was cybersecurity. CSEE’s Professor Anupam Joshi, director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity, was one of nine academics invited by The Conversation to give reactions to particular items mention in the address. His…
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Two tenure-track positions for Computer Science at UMBC
The UMBC CSEE department has two tenure-track faculty positions for its Computer Science program and is especially interested in candidates whose research areas include security and data analytics and related fields. Apply by January 15, 2015.
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Rick Forno speaks @ Schmoocon '15
CSEE’s Dr. Rick Forno was a panelist for Schmoocon 2015’s closing plenary session on January 18 in Washington, DC. The session, entitled “Get Off My Lawn: Examining Change through the Eyes of The Old Guard” brought together four longtime security practitioners to discuss in a free-flowing (if not somewhat curmudgeonly) manner the state of Internet…
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talk: Measuring Visual Perceptions of Security, 10am Fri 1/16, UMBC
Professor Adam J. Aviv of the United States Naval Academy will give a talk on ‘Measuring Visual Perceptions of Security’ at 10am on Fri. Jan 16 in the UMBC Information Systems Dept., room 459 in the ITE building.
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Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014
The Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 bill was passed by Congress this month and signed by the President at the end of last week. The bill provides for “an ongoing, voluntary public-private partnership to improve cybersecurity, and to strengthen cybersecurity research and development, workforce development and education, and public awareness and preparedness, and for other…
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New computing faculty positions at UMBC
UMBC has nine open full-time positions for computing faculty including five tenure track professors, a professor of the practice and three lecturers.
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Anupam Joshi named an IEEE Fellow
UMBC Professor Anupam Joshi was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to security, privacy and data management in mobile and pervasive systems.