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Nov 28

First round of Future Enterprise Security Initiative funded projects announced

CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative is underway as the first round of funded proposals has been announced.

Nov 15

Carnegie Mellon to host NSA GenCyber experience for local high school teachers

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

Fromherz wins ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award

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 members present research at annual FTC PrivacyCon

CyLab faculty, postdocs, and students presented their research at the FTC’s seventh annual PrivacyCon on November 1.

Nov 01

Securing Africa’s cyberspace Opens in new window

In their first year, CyLab-Africa and the newly announced Upanzi Network have made deliberate strides toward improving cybersecurity in Africa.

Oct 31

Measuring Internet resilience in Ukraine

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

CyLab hosts annual Partners Conference

The CyLab Annual Partners Conference highlights the latest research in security and privacy with an interactive forum between faculty, students, and industry.

Oct 24

CyLab proposes improved, consumer-friendly broadband “nutrition” labels

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

CyLab presents IoT privacy and security label research at White House summit

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

Award-winning research paves the way for provably-safe sandboxing using WebAssembly

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have developed a pair of compilers enabling provably-safe multilingual software sandboxing using WebAssembly.

Oct 06

Nokia Bell Labs sponsors CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative

Nokia Bell Labs expands its partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, becoming a sponsor of CyLab's Future Enterprise Security Initiative.

Sep 27

A new initiative to drive financial inclusion in Africa Opens in new window

Funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will bring together academia, government, and the private sector to make digital financial services more accessible.

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Sep 15

New model provides smishing protection in Swahili Opens in new window

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

CyLab names 2022 Presidential Fellows

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

Study reveals third-party tracking abundant on abortion clinic sites

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

Transformational growth at CMU-Africa Opens in new window

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

picoCTF celebrates competition winners at annual award ceremony

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

Eliminating algorithmic complexity attacks

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

CMU hosts public hearing on cybersecurity and blockchain

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's hacking team wins DEF CON CTF

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

Carnegie Mellon faculty, students present at the 31st USENIX Security Symposium

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

iPhone security compromises prove difficult to detect

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 receives 2022 CyLab Distinguished Alumni Award

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

CyLab well represented at SOUPS 2022

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

Algorand Foundation selects Carnegie Mellon to join ACE Program

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

Study reveals iOS privacy labels miss the mark

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

Usable but not understood: a case study on chatbots and HIPAA

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.

Jul 21

Inaugural conference talks digital public goods in Africa Opens in new window

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

CyLab research leads to blockchain paradigm shift

New research out of CyLab lays the scientific foundation for studying decentralized mechanism design.

Jul 06

Researchers propose ephemeral approach to IoT privacy

A team of CyLab researchers has proposed a new model of IoT ownership to help alleviate issues of privacy.

Jun 24

CyLab’s Giulia Fanti receives 2022 Rising Star Award

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 Ph.D. student receives honor for “highest quality” thesis

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

CyLab student studying cryptography receives INI award

Nikhil Lalit Vanjani received an Outstanding Student Service Award for a Research Assistant at last month’s INI commencement.

Jun 08

Two of three IEEE Test of Time Awards go to CyLab researchers

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

Peekaboo! Here’s a system to guarantee smart home privacy

CyLab researchers have developed a new privacy-sensitive architecture for developers to build smart home apps.

May 26

Building cybersecurity talent Opens in new window

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

Towards having your privacy and security and exchanging crypto too

A CyLab postdoc developed a new protocol towards better privacy and security protections when swapping cryptocurrencies.

May 16

Cookie consent notices are actually unusable, according to science

A new study by CyLab researchers shows just how truly unusable cookie consent interfaces are.

May 11

Microsoft expands its strategic partnership

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

Lorrie Cranor receives honorary doctorate

Cranor received the honorary degree "for her relentless pursuit of making privacy and security usable..."

May 06

CMU hacking team wins MITRE cybersecurity competition

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

Aryaka becomes strategic partner

The company will serve as a founding sponsor of Carnegie Mellon’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative.

Apr 28

CyLab researchers investigate Apple’s privacy labels

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

NSF awards CMU researchers $3M to accelerate next-gen networking, computing

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

Crossroads for data Opens in new window

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 hacked their way through picoCTF 2022

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

Ripple becomes a founding sponsor of the CMU Secure Blockchain Initiative

The announcement comes three years after CMU announced a partnership with Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative.

Apr 06

VMware to sponsor CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative

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 researchers awarded AI security funding

CyLab’s Giulia Fanti, Corina Pasareanu, and Vyas Sekar have been awarded research funding from the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute.

Mar 17

Crypto.com becomes strategic partner

The company will serve as a founding sponsor of Carnegie Mellon CyLab’s Secure Blockchain Initiative.

Mar 08

World’s largest online hacking competition begins next week

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

“Adulting” for cybersecurity, GANs, and more: CyLab’s 2022 seed funding awardees

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

The (un)importance of online interview modes for security and privacy studies

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

Algorand Foundation becomes strategic partner

The Foundation will serve as a founding sponsor of Carnegie Mellon CyLab’s Secure Blockchain Initiative.

Feb 22

Understanding the evolutionary roots of privacy

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

Engineering meets extreme reality Opens in new window

"Extreme reality engineering” is all about creating technology that can operate under some of the worst conditions imaginable.

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Feb 15

CyLab faculty named Intel’s 2021 Outstanding Researchers

CyLab faculty Justine Sherry, Vyas Sekar, and James Hoe have been selected among the winners of Intel’s 2021 Outstanding Researcher Award.

Feb 10

CMU hacking team competes in pentesting world finals

The competition pitted cybersecurity’s brightest students against one another to flex their technical, business, and communication prowess.

Jan 27

Why should we use password managers? We asked a security researcher.

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

CyLab paper receives Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award

The paper captured people’s privacy expectations and preferences in the age of video analytics.

Jan 03

Rotem Guttman’s cyber forensics course is an immersive experience

INI students in Rotem Guttman’s “Cyber Forensics and Incident Response” capstone course are thrown into a fictional world to solve a cybersecurity case.

Media Mentions

Associated Press

Carley discusses how misinformation can spread

CyLab’s Kathleen Carley was quoted by the Associated Press about the dangers of misinformation, particularly pertaining to false claims of election fraud and how that may impact overseas voters. “Laying the groundwork for a conspiracy theory means that you need to weave many claims together,” Carley explained.

Time

Brumley discusses social security number breach and cybersecurity

ECE’s David Brumley spoke with Time about the hack in April that resulted in SSN data from the NPD being leaked. “We are not talking about a startup here,” Brumley said. “Looking forward, we have to have higher standards for the custodians of our data.”

Atlantic Council

Fanti and Sowon suggest improving the way governments regulate technology

Giulia Fanti and Karen Sowon were among the co-authors of an article in Atlantic Council suggesting ways in which governments could more effectively regulate new technologies while avoiding setbacks.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Carley discusses new tools designed to curb the spread of disinformation online

CyLab/EPP’s Kathleen Carley spoke with Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about the need to improve detection of inaccurate or misleading content online.

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