Nov 28
CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative is underway as the first round of funded proposals has been announced.
Nov 15
The picoCTF for NSA GenCyber Teacher Program by Carnegie Mellon University is designed for local tri-state area high school computer science teachers in grades 10 through 12, demonstrating how to incorporate online cybersecurity Capture-The-Flag (CTF) problems and competitions into the classroom.
Nov 10
Former CyLab Presidential Fellow Aymeric Fromherz earns ACM SIGSAC’s 2022 Doctoral Dissertation Award for his thesis, “A Proof-Oriented Approach to Low-Level, High-Assurance Programming.”
Nov 04
CyLab faculty, postdocs, and students presented their research at the FTC’s seventh annual PrivacyCon on November 1.
Nov 01
In their first year, CyLab-Africa and the newly announced Upanzi Network have made deliberate strides toward improving cybersecurity in Africa.
Oct 31
Akshath Jain, Deepayan Patra, and Mike Xu, master’s students in the Department of Computer Science, examine Internet performance during the first 54 days of the war in Ukraine.
Oct 28
The CyLab Annual Partners Conference highlights the latest research in security and privacy with an interactive forum between faculty, students, and industry.Â
Oct 24
CyLab researchers have conducted a large-scale user study of more than 2,500 participants, uncovering the information most important to consumers shopping for broadband internet service and determining what terminology and presentation formats make this information most understandable and useful.
Oct 19
Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Security and Privacy Institute took part in the White House’s Internet of Things (IoT) security summit to discuss what’s needed to foster an effective IoT security labeling ecosystem.
Oct 11
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have developed a pair of compilers enabling provably-safe multilingual software sandboxing using WebAssembly.
Oct 06
Nokia Bell Labs expands its partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, becoming a sponsor of CyLab's Future Enterprise Security Initiative.
Sep 27
Funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will bring together academia, government, and the private sector to make digital financial services more accessible.
Sep 15
Research about smishing (SMS phishing) from CMU-Africa and the Nelson Mandela Institute of Science and Technology was recently published in IEEE Access.
Sep 12
Each year, CyLab recognizes high-achieving Ph.D. students pursuing security and/or privacy-related research with a CyLab Presidential Fellowship that covers one year of tuition.
Sep 09
A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine reveals over 99 percent of abortion clinic web pages include third-party tracking, putting the privacy of those visiting these websites at risk.
Sep 08
A historic partnership with the Mastercard Foundation will expand the engineering and technology, research, and entrepreneurship programs at CMU-Africa, helping to strengthen Africa’s technology, innovation, and research ecosystem.
Aug 30
Over 18,000 people hacked their way through Carnegie Mellon’s annual cybersecurity competition in 2022, including more than 6,000 middle and high school students. The event saw players from all 50 U.S. States and 169 countries, who worked through 65 increasingly difficult challenges as they looked to take home this year’s crown.
Aug 26
Nirav Atre, a Ph.D. student in CMU's Computer Science Department and member of the CyLab Institute for Security and Privacy, has developed an algorithm guaranteed to protect network systems against algorithmic complexity attacks.
Aug 24
Government officials, academics, and Industry leaders gathered at Mill 19 to discuss the impact of cybersecurity and blockchain on government operations. Associate Professor Ariel Zetlin-Jones explained how Carnegie Mellon’s Secure Blockchain Initiative is poised to lead the way in blockchain research and education.
Aug 14
Carnegie Mellon showed off its computer security talent by winning DEF CON’s Capture the Flag competition, the “Superbowl of hacking,” for the sixth time.
Aug 11
An overview of papers, authored by members of CMU's CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, being presented at the 31st USENIX Security Symposium
Aug 09
Mobile phones can be abused to enable stalking through methods like location tracking, account compromise, and remote surveillance. While experts can help victims detect and recover from this type of technology abuse, researchers at Carnegie Mellon's CyLab Security and Privacy Institute say typical users aren't equipped to identify and resolve these issues on their own.
Aug 08
Michelle Mazurek, a CyLab alum, Director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, has been selected to receive the 2022 CyLab Distinguished Alumni Award.
Aug 05
There is no shortage of Carnegie Mellon (CMU) students and faculty participating in this year's Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS).
Aug 04
The Algorand Foundation has selected Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as one of 10 global winners to join its Algorand Center of Excellence (ACE) Program. Over the next five years, Algorand's $50 million investment will support blockchain research and education hubs at each institution, aiming to grow a diverse and inclusive global community of blockchain researchers and educators.
Jul 26
A new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon’s Security and Privacy Institute shows users find Apple’s iOS privacy labels confusing, difficult to find.
Jul 21
Achieving consent online is a challenge. Throw that into the context of healthcare, and it becomes enormously challenging. A new study by CyLab's Sarah Pearman takes a deep dive.
Conrad Tucker and Assane Gueye organized the first-ever West Africa Conference on Digital Public Goods and Cybersecurity, held in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Jul 12
New research out of CyLab lays the scientific foundation for studying decentralized mechanism design.
Jul 06
A team of CyLab researchers has proposed a new model of IoT ownership to help alleviate issues of privacy.
Jun 24
ACM SIGMETRICS named CyLab’s Giulia Fanti the recipient of the 2022 Rising Star Research Award for her “fundamental and interdisciplinary research on scalable systems for data sharing that ensures security and privacy.”
Jun 22
CyLab’s Aymeric Fromherz was recognized with an A.G. Milnes Award for his Ph.D. thesis work “judged to be of the highest quality and which has had, or is likely to have, significant impact in his or her field.”
Jun 16
Nikhil Lalit Vanjani received an Outstanding Student Service Award for a Research Assistant at last month’s INI commencement.
Jun 08
At last month’s IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, two of three Test of Time Awards—among the most prestigious awards presented—were given to CyLab researchers.
May 31
CyLab researchers have developed a new privacy-sensitive architecture for developers to build smart home apps.
May 26
This March, CyLab-Africa held the first-ever picoCTF-Africa cybersecurity competition in order to excite young Africans to pursue a career in the field of cybersecurity.
May 23
A CyLab postdoc developed a new protocol towards better privacy and security protections when swapping cryptocurrencies.
May 16
A new study by CyLab researchers shows just how truly unusable cookie consent interfaces are.
May 11
Microsoft has announced that it is expanding its partnership with Carnegie Mellon University CyLab in becoming a founding sponsor of CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative.
May 09
Cranor received the honorary degree "for her relentless pursuit of making privacy and security usable..."
May 06
Carnegie Mellon’s competitive hacking team beat 31 other schools from around the world in designing a secure electronic device for aircrafts and attacking other teams’ designs.
May 03
The company will serve as a founding sponsor of Carnegie Mellon’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative.
Apr 28
Roughly a year after Apple rolled out its privacy label requirements, CyLab researchers have gained a comprehensive look at the state of iOS privacy labels.
Apr 21
CyLab researchers will use nearly $3 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help develop intelligent, resilient and reliable next-generation (NextG) networks.
Apr 19
The Intel/VMware Crossroads 3D-FPGA Academic Research Center has been formed to determine the role of FPGAs in extending the performance and efficiency of future datacenters
Apr 14
Over 18,000 people participated in Carnegie Mellon University’s annual cybersecurity competition last month—including more than 6,000 middle and high school students.
Apr 08
The announcement comes three years after CMU announced a partnership with Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative.
Apr 06
VMware recently announced it will be a founding sponsor of CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative, which has a mission of rethinking security across enterprise ecosystems through innovations in artificial intelligence, computer science, engineering, and human factors research.
Mar 25
CyLab’s Giulia Fanti, Corina Pasareanu, and Vyas Sekar have been awarded research funding from the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute.
Mar 17
The company will serve as a founding sponsor of Carnegie Mellon CyLab’s Secure Blockchain Initiative.
Mar 08
picoCTF, the annual free online cybersecurity competition run by hacking experts in Carnegie Mellon’s CyLab, aims to introduce young minds across the nation to the world of cybersecurity and to build a pipeline of talent to a much-needed cyber workforce.
Mar 04
Over $400K in seed funding has been awarded to 18 different faculty and staff across seven departments at Carnegie Mellon to support security and privacy research.
Mar 03
In a rigorous new study just published in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of CyLab researchers show that that there is little evidence to suggest that interviews with crowd workers about sensitive topics are significantly impacted by the chosen online interview mode.
Feb 28
The Foundation will serve as a founding sponsor of Carnegie Mellon CyLab’s Secure Blockchain Initiative.
Feb 22
New research co-authored by CyLab researchers in the journal Science explores the concept of privacy not as a modern anomaly, but as a concept that spans time and space, social class, and degree of technological sophistication.
Feb 17
"Extreme reality engineering” is all about creating technology that can operate under some of the worst conditions imaginable.
Feb 15
CyLab faculty Justine Sherry, Vyas Sekar, and James Hoe have been selected among the winners of Intel’s 2021 Outstanding Researcher Award.
Feb 10
The competition pitted cybersecurity’s brightest students against one another to flex their technical, business, and communication prowess.
Jan 27
The most common passwords in 2021 were (1) 123456, (2) 123456789, and (3) qwerty. We sat down with a CyLab researcher to better understand why password managers are such useful tools in securing our accounts, and why more of us should use them.
Jan 20
The paper captured people’s privacy expectations and preferences in the age of video analytics.
Jan 03
INI students in Rotem Guttman’s “Cyber Forensics and Incident Response” capstone course are thrown into a fictional world to solve a cybersecurity case.
