Category: Cybersecurity
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3rd Annual CWIT Spring into Leadership Event, April 11
4/11: The UMBC Center for Women in Technology will hold its 3rd Annual CWIT Spring into Leadership event on Thursday evening, April 11, 2013 in the University Center Ballroom at UMBC. Ms. Tina Kuhn of Northrop Grumman Information Systems will give the keynote talk.
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Newspaper's online poll on Internet voting compromised to make a point
Rick Forno, Assistant Director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity, was quoted in an article in the Louisville KY Courier-Journal about a compromised online poll the paper ran about Internet voting. The paper's March 20th poll was prompted by a Kentucky initiative to make voting easier for overseas personnel and asked "Should overseas U.S. military…
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UMBC's Rick Forno on Protecting Your Financial Data From Cyberattacks
As more corporate and personal data moves online, Assistant Director at the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity Richard Forno provides tips on protecting financial information before a cyberattack hits. In this video, Mariko Sanchanta of the Wall Stree Journal Digital Network interviews Dr. Rick Forno on the risks of cyberattacks on banks and other financial insititutions.
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Shafi Goldwasser & Silvio Micali win Turing Award for work on cryptographic security
"Shafi Goldwasser of MIT and the Weizmann Institute of Science and Silvio Micali of MIT were names as the winners of the 2012 ACM A.M. Turing Award. Working together, they pioneered the field of provable security, which laid the mathematical foundations that made modern cryptography possible. By formalizing the concept that cryptographic security had to…
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Webinar on Certificate in Cyber Operations training program
UMBC's Training Centers is offering a new Certificate in Cyber Operations that is designed to help move participants from a basic competence with computers and technology up to the level of a competent, entry-level professional as a Cyber Analyst or Operator. Homer Minnick, the Training Centers' director for Cybersecurity training, will host a free webinar on…
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talk: Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, 10:30 3/11
10:30a Mon 3/11: Professor Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK) of IIIT Delhi will talk about his research on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media at 10:30am on Monday, March 11 in room 325b of the ITE building at UMBC.
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UMBC Cyber Academy: certificate in computer network operations
UMBC Training Centers has launched the Cyber Academy to address the tremendous need for Cyber professionals in the workforce. The Cyber Academy is a full time, intensive training program designed to prepare students for immediate employment in Cybersecurity job specialties within government and industry. The Cyber Academy – Certificate in Computer Network Operations will develop…
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Cybersecurity graduate programs information session, 2013-3-21
The nation's demand for skilled cybersecurity professionals continues to rise. The UMBC Cybersecurity Graduate Program will hold an information session from 6:00pm to 7:30pm on Thursday 21 March in room 102 of the Information Technology and Engineering Building (ITE). Participants will learn how our masters and certificate programs can help you get started or advance…
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Professor Anupam Joshi to speak at Security & Privacy Symposium
CSEE professor Anupam Joshi–director of the new UMBC Center for Cybersecurity–has been invited to give a keynote talk at the Security & Privacy Symposium. The symposium will take place at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur India from February 28 to March 1. His talk is entitled “A Semantically Rich approach to Cybersecurity”. The…
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JOB: JHU APL Cybersecurity
Help shape the future of warfare through cyber operations. It’s what we do in the Asymmetric Operations Department at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)—a national leader in scientific research and development, located midway between Baltimore and Washington, DC. The Asymmetric Operations Department supports the U.S. government by applying research capabilities to high-priority…