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CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

CyLab announces third round of Secure Blockchain Initiative funded projects

Carnegie Mellon University's Secure Blockchain Initiative (SBI) has announced its third round of funded proposals, providing $130K to six groundbreaking research projects that are exploring the security and privacy of distributed ledger technology.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

CyLab awards 2025 seed funding

This year, CyLab has awarded more than $400K in seed funding to 16 CMU students, faculty, and staff members from five departments at the university.

CMU Engineering

Student donates bug bounty to support picoCTF’s cybersecurity education efforts

Seunghyun Lee discovered a series of bugs in Google Chrome’s WebAssembly type system that earned him a bug bounty, which he generously donated to CMU's picoCTF cybersecurity education platform.

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute

Student bug bounty discovery supports picoCTF’s cybersecurity education efforts with $462,000 gift

Seunghyun Lee, a first-year Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department, recently discovered a series of bugs in Google Chrome's WebAssembly type system that earned him a bug bounty, which he generously donated to CMU's picoCTF cybersecurity education platform.