Category: Cybersecurity
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Fall update on CWIT, T-SITE and Cyber Scholars programs
The Fall 2013 edition of the Center for Women in Technology’s newsletter, CWIT Update, describes CWIT’s recent events and initiatives, highlighting accomplishments of the CWIT students, updates from CWIT alumni, and information on two scholar programs that CWIT helps to manage: Transfer Scholars in Information Technology and Engineering and Cyber Scholars.
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Prof. Anupam Joshi discusses Target credit/debit card data breach on NBC and ABC news
Director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity and CSEE professor Anupam Joshi discusses the recent breach of credit/debit card data in which Target lost information on 40 million credit and debit cards.
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UMBC Training Centers receives grant to support Cyber Operations students
UMBC Training Centers received a $5,000 grant financed by the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore (EAGB) that will be used to defer tuition costs for students in the Cyber Operations Program. According to Tom Sadowski, President and CEO of EAGB: “This contribution reflects EAGB’s commitment to growing the cybersecurity industry and talent base within the…
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talk: Simson Garfinkel on Finding privacy leaks and stolen data with bulk data analysis
12/6: Dr Simson Garfinkel of the Naval Postgraduate School will talk on ‘Finding privacy leaks and stolen data with bulk data analysis and optimistic decoding’ from Noon to 1:00pm on Friday, December 6 in room 229 of the ITE building.
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HackUMBC hackathon: relax before finals and see what you can build in 24 hours
hackUMBC is a 24 hour hackathon for UMBC students held in the UMBC Skylight room from 7:00pm Friday December 6 to 7:00pm Saturday December 7. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and caffeine will be provided. The event is open to all UMBC students of any skill level, from innovators to designers to hardcore coders. Join other hackers…
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PhD defense: Leschke on Vizualization for Digital Forensic Data
Timothy Leschke will defend his PhD dissertation, Applying Data Visualization Techniques to Support the Analysis of Digital Forensic Data, at 10:00am on Monday, November 25, 2013 in room 456 of the ITE building at UMBC
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PhD defense: Oehler on Private Packet Filtering, 11/21
11/21: Michael John Oehler will defned his PhD dissertation on ‘Private Packet Filtering: Searching for Sensitive Indicators without Revealing the Indicators in Collaborative Environments” at 10:30am on Thursday, November 21, 2013 in room 325b in the ITE building at UMBC.
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Rick Forno speaking at Cyber Education Symposium
CSEE’s Dr. Richard Forno, Cybersecurity GPD and Assistant Director of UMBC’s Center for Cybersecurity, is speaking at the NCSI Cybersecurity Education Symposium in Arlington, Virginia on Tuesday, November 19th. The panel session, “Creating the Cyber Curricula for Success” will explore the interdisciplinary nature of cybersecurity and cybersecurity education at the undergraduate and graduate levels and…
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Talk: Zatyko on Cloud Forensics, Noon Fri 11/1, ITE 229, UMBC
Ken Zatyko will talk on Cloud Forensics and its Many Challenges at Noon on Friday, November 1, 2013 in room 229 of the ITE building at UMBC
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CyberDawgs take second place at MDC3 2013 finals
UMBC’s CyberDawgs placed second at the 2013 Maryland Cyber Challenge (MDC3) finals that were held in Baltimore on October 9 as part of the CyberMaryland 2013 conference. CyberDawgs-1 (pictured above) included William Thomas, Anthony Sasadeusz, Kenneth Johansen Jorge Teixeira, AJ Hallameyer, and Fahad Alduraibi. During the finals, teams competed in a Control-the-Flag event where they attempted…