Category: Cybersecurity
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Talk: Cyber Lessons, Learned and Unlearned, 1-2 pm ET 4/20/21
The UMBC Center for Cybersecurity (UCYBR) & The Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering (CSEE) Present: “Cyber Lessons, Learned and Unlearned” Professor Eugene SpaffordProfessor of Computer Science & Executive Director Emeritus of the Purdue CERIAS (Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security)Purdue University Tuesday 20 April 2021 1-2PM ET WHEREhttps://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m576a3dada9e0c63c07beb51fedbff3d1 Dr.…
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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: 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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talk: Ed Raff on Machine Learning for Malware: Challenges and Progress, 12-1pm ET Wed 2/17
Ed Raff gives an overview of malware detection and why it poses challenging machine learning research problems and progress we’ve made on these tasks by taking some non-standard approaches.
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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.
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Two UMBC alumnae featured in Cybersecurity podcast
Two UMBC alumnae who studied cybersecurity are featured in a podcast on what it’s like working as a woman in the cleared community
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talk: Tim Brennan on “Economics of Law” – Insights into Cybersecurity Policy, 12pm Tue 12/8
UMBC Prof. Tim Brennan talks on the Economics of Law, giving some unexpected and perhaps controversial perspectives from economics on relevant questions about cybersecurity policies. 12-1pm ET, Tue. Dec 8, online.