News
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NSA Research Supports the Next Generation of Scientists and EngineersNSA posts news story on the ISEF Award https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/news_information/2015/NSA_Research_Supports_Next_Generation_of_Scientists_and_Engineers.shtml
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Amazon Raises Prices for Mechanical TurkAmazon increased their cut of from 10% to 20% for costs with Mechanical Turk. This will lead to incrase costs for researchers and or decrease for Turkers(?) http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/23/amazons-mechanical-turk-fee-hike-irks-researchers/
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Washington Post Article on L0phtThe Washington Post published an article on a bit of the history of L0pht and how hackers back in 1998 testified to Congress that the Internet security was terribly broken. And yet, it remains terribly broken. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/…
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UIUC to lead DHS initiative to beef up nation's cyber infrastructureThe University of Illinois will lead a new multidisciplinary center designed to help government and industry beef up the resilience of the nation's cyber infrastructure, including the power grid, telecommunications networks and transportation systems. It…
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Berkeley Browser StudyInternational Computer Science Institute and the University of California Berkeley are researching web browser messages. They are working to make them less confusing. The Firefox extension prompts surveys on triggered events. …
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Cybersecurity Experimentation of the FutureThe Cybersecurity Experimentation of the Future (CEF) is a community study to determine what infrastructures are needed to have the scientific experimental results for science. The primary result of this effort will be a Strategic Plan for…
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The Deter ProjectThe Deter Project is a research project and a cyber experimental testbed. It has the goal of allowing for repeatable, scalable and scientifically verifiable experimentation -- for homeland security and critical infrastructure protection…
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ISEF Winners Announced for NSA Research Directorate AwardThe 2015 NSA Research Directorate Award was presented to three research projects at the 2015 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair on May 14th, 2015. The NSA Research Award at ISEF recognizes outstanding scientific accomplishment in…
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NSA Research Directorate Special Award Organization at Intel Science & Engineering FairThe National Security Agency Research Directorate is sponsoring a special award at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Science of Security. The award is to recognize high school students who's research reflect the principles…
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Microsoft Ending Patch TuesdayWith the release of windows 10, Microsoft will be ending the monthly patch release schedule. The new version will support more security patches being released more quickly. Microsoft is releasing tools to help corporate users. http://www.…
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Interest in Cybersecurity Science & Research Heats UpUIUC Lablet hosted HotSoS 2015 on April 21-22 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Interest in Cybersecurity Science and Resarch were hot topics at this Symposium and Bootcamp on the…
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DARPA Releases BAA for BrandeisDARPA annouced the BAA (request for proposals) for their Brandeis Initiative. Brandeis is a privacy centered initiative that works on foundation privacy research. One aspect is developing methods for a consumer to choose and technology enforce…