2025

Apr 30

Cybersecurity educators should share resources to teach students important technical and non-technical skills

In a new article, researchers argue that cybersecurity educators need to share teaching resources to teach students critical technical and non-technical skills, and they describe a course they created that allows for such sharing to take place.

Apr 28

Purpose Mode helps social media users stay focused on their desired tasks

A CMU research team has developed Purpose Mode — a browser extension that allows users to “toggle off” Attention Capture Damaging Patterns (ACDPs) while using social media platforms.

Apr 25

Space-tolerant computer chips Opens in new window

Researchers develop microelectronics for space and aerospace applications.

Apr 16

Michael Mattarock joins CMU INI as its new associate director

Michael Mattarock, CyLab faculty member, has joined the Information Networking Institute (INI) as its new associate director and assistant teaching professor.

Apr 04

Protecting audio privacy at the source

To allow audio sensing without compromising privacy, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed an on-device filter, called Kirigami, that can detect and delete human speech segments collected by audio sensors before they're used for activity recognition.

Apr 01

CyLab researchers win Test of Time Award at USEC 2025

A team featuring CyLab researchers was honored with the Test of Time Award at the 2025 Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC 2025).

Mar 25

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.

Mar 14

CyLab researchers present at ACM CHI 2025

CyLab Security and Privacy Institute researchers will present nine papers and teach one course at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025).

Mar 03

picoCTF capture-the-flag competition prepares students for rewarding careers in cybersecurity

picoCTF’s 12th annual capture-the-flag hacking competition for middle school, high school, and college students will take place from March 7 through March 17. Students interested in participating can register now by signing up for a free account at picoctf.org.

Feb 28

A cybersecurity question answering assistant that motivates users to follow its advice

A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers is studying prompt engineering techniques that could coax large language models (LLMs) to generate more effective answers to everyday cybersecurity questions.

Feb 21

Understanding YouTube giveaway scams: are teens more susceptible?

A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently conducted human subjects research to learn more about the nature of YouTube giveaway scams, and determine whether teens are more susceptible to falling for them than adults.

Feb 20

Moderating content for end-to-end encryption

Sarah Scheffler, assistant professor of Software and Societal Systems and Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, is currently conducting research that explores alternative content moderation methods for end-to-end-encryption (E2EE) that are still private and secure.

Media Mentions


CNET

Cranor discusses passkey security

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CyLab Director Lorrie Cranor was quoted by CNET about Microsoft’s switch to passkeys.

The Washington Post

Cranor quoted on iris-scanning technology

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CyLab Director Lorrie Cranor was quoted by The Washington Post about World’s iris-scanning technology.

The Washington Post

Cranor quoted on access to data in cases of theft

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CyLab Director Lorrie Cranor was quoted by the Washington Post about how the owners of stolen Apple products cannot regain access to their data.

Dark Reading

Cranor discusses Gmail cybersecurity

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CyLab Director Lorrie Cranor spoke with Dark Reading about the importance of securing one’s devices and accounts, regardless of encryption protections companies like Gmail install in their software.

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