Category: Cybersecurity
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National Cybersecurity Virtual Career Fair, Friday 9/17
The 5th annual National Cybersecurity Virtual Career Fair, sponsored by National Cybersecurity Training and Education Center and the CAE in Cybersecurity Community, will be held 1-4pm Fri Sept. 17, 2021.
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talk: Thinking Like an Attacker: Towards a Definition and Non-Technical Assessment of Adversarial Thinking, 12-1pm ET 4/30
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Thinking Like an Attacker:Towards a Definition and Non-Technical Assessment of Adversarial Thinking Prof. Peter A. H. PetersonDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversity of Minnesota Duluth 12:00–1:00 pm ET, Friday, 30 April 2021via WebEx “Adversarial thinking” (AT), sometimes called the “security mindset” or described as the ability to “think like an attacker,”…
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talk: MeetingMayhem: Teaching Adversarial Thinking through a Web-Based Game, 12-1 ET 4/9
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents MeetingMayhem: Teaching Adversarial Thinking through a Web-Based Game Akriti Anand, Richard Baldwin, Sudha, Kosuri, Julie Nau, and Ryan Wunk-FinkUMBC Cyber Defense Lab joint work with Alan Sherman, Marc Olano, Linda Oliva, Edward Zieglar, and Enis Golazewski 12:00 noon–1 pm ET, Friday, 9 April 2021online via WebEx We present our progress…
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UMBC Cyber Dawgs win 2021 Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
Congratulation to the UMBC Cyber Dawgs team, which took first place in the 2021 Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (MACCDC) finals. UMBC’s team was one of eight teams out of an initial 23 that qualified for the final competition. UMBC’s Cyber Dawgs will move on to compete in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC),…
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talk: Transparent Dishonesty: Front-Running Attacks on Blockchain, 12-1 pm ET 3/26
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Transparent Dishonesty: Front-Running Attacks on Blockchain Professor Jeremy ClarkConcordia Institute for Information Systems EngineeringConcordia University, Montreal, Canada 12–1 pm ET Friday, March 26, 2021online via WebEx We consider front-running to be a course of action where an entity benefits from prior access to privileged market information about upcoming transactions…
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talk: Towards Contextual Security of AI-enabled platforms, 1-2 pm ET 3/22
Dr. Nidhi Rastogi of RPI talks about her work on using automated, trustworthy, and contextual AI systems to improve the security of Internet-connected systems and devices.
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talk: EIPC: Efficient Asynchronous BFT with Adaptive Security, 12-1 Fri 3/12
UMBC Ph.D. student Chao Liu talks about his research on developing an efficient asynchronous BFT protocol with adaptive security, 12-1pm ET Friday, March 12, online via webex.
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talk: Moving Target Mobile IPv6 Defense, 12-1 Fri 2/26
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents Moving Target Mobile IPv6 Defense Prof. Vahid HeydariComputer Science, Rowan University 12:00–1 pm ET, Friday, 26 February 26, 2021 remotely via WebEx Remote cyberattacks can be started from an unlimited distance through the Internet. These attacks include particular actions that allow attackers to compromise systems remotely. Address-based Distributed Denial-of-Service…
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Six UMBC faculty, incuding three in CSEE, receive MIPS research awards
Three CSEE faculty receive MIPS research awards This post is adapted from a UMBC News article UMBC faculty, alumni entrepreneurs receive record-number of MIPS awards for tech collaborations written by Adriana Fraser. Six UMBC faculty members have just received grants from the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program to develop new technologies with potential to grow…
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talk: Dr. Richard Carback on Startup Lessons Learned, 12-1 Fri 2/12
Rick Carback explore the technology and lessons learned from his experience co-founding and closing the security startup Lexumo, which provided the only automated service that continuously monitors IoT software platforms for the latest public vulnerabilities.