Category: Cybersecurity
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talk: The Evolution of Mobile Authentication, 1pm 4/30, ITE325, UMBC
The Evolution of Mobile Authentication Prof. Keith Mayes, Royal Holloway University of London 1:00pm Tuesday 30 April 2019, ITE325, UMBC Mobile communication is an essential part or modern life, however it is dependent on some fundamental security technologies. Critical amongst these technologies, is mobile authentication, the ability to identify valid users (and networks) and enable…
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talk: Using CPSA to Analyze Force-Latency Protocols, 12-1 4/19
UMBC Cyber Defense Lab Using CPSA to Analyze Force-Latency Protocols Dr. Edward Zieglar, National Security Agency 12-1 Friday, 19 April 19, ITE 227 Several cryptographic protocols have been proposed to address the Man-in-the-Middle attack without the prior exchange of keys. This talk will describe a formal analysis of one such protocol proposed by Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn,…
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talk: IPv6 and its Security Issues, 5:30 Mon. 4/22
IPv6 and its Security Issues Neal Ziring, National Security Agency 5:30-6:45 Monday 22 April 2019, Math/Psych 101 CMSC 626 Guest Lecture — all are welcome to attend In this talk, we will introduce the basics of IPv6 and some of the security issues associated with it. Specifically, we discuss the motivations, history and adoption of…
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Post-Bac Certificate in Digital Forensics
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Professional Studies: Digital Forensics UMBC’s cybersecurity graduate program has added a new 12-credit post-baccalaureate certificate in professional studies focused on digital forensics. The Digital Forensics certificate program is intended for early and mid-career IT and law- enforcement professionals who want to learn basic and advanced concepts and develop skills in the field…
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talk: Why are memory-corruption bugs still a thing?, 10:30am Mon 4/8, ITE325
Why are memory-corruption bugs still a thing? The challenges of securing software at an assembly level Doug BrittonCTO, RunSafe Security Inc. 10:30-11:30 Monday, 8 April 2019, ITE346 Methods to chip away at the danger of memory-corruption bugs have been available for some time. Why has the going-price of memory-corruption-based exploits not spiked? If the methods…
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SFS cyberdefense scholarship applications due April 15
SFS cyberdefense scholarship applications due Noon Monday, April 15 The next application deadline for SFS cyberdefense scholarships at UMBC is 12:00 noon Monday, 15 April 2019, for possible scholarships beginning in the fall of 2019. See the Center for Information Security and Assurance site for details and application forms. These major scholarships include tuition, generous…
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talk and demo: Exploiting IoT Vulnerabilities, 11:45-1:00pm Mon 2/18
Exploiting IoT Vulnerabilities Dr. Yatish Joshi, Senior Engineer, Cisco Systems 11:45am-1:00pm Monday, 18 February 2019, ITE 325-B The past decade has seen explosive growth in the use and deployment of IoT (Internet of Things) devices. According to Gartner there will be about 20.8 billion IoT devices in use by 2020. These devices are seeing wide…
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talk: Using Deep Learning in Identifying Network Intrusions, 10:30am Mon 2/11, UMBC
Using Deep Learning in Identifying Network Intrusions Dr. Rajeev Agrawal Information Technology Laboratory US Army Engineer Research and Development Center 10:30-11:30 Monday, February 11, 2019, ITE325 Deep Learning algorithms have been very successful in computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition. However, there is a big challenge in applying it in cyber security…
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Countering Russian disinformation the Baltic nations’ way
Countering Russian disinformation the Baltic nations’ way Terry Thompson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County As the new Congress begins, it will soon discuss the comprehensive reports to the U.S. Senate on the disinformation campaign of half-truths, outright fabrications and misleading posts made by agents of the Russian government on social media in the run-up…
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Workshop on Usable Security, 10-4 Tue 12/18
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab Workshop on Usable Security Nikola K. Blanchard 10am-4pm, Tuesday, 18 December, 2018, ITE 228, UMBC We invite people interested in cybersecurity to join us for research conversations with Nikola Blanchard, an expert in usable security. Visitors are welcome to participate in any or all of the workshop. How do…