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  • NSA Cybersecurity Summer Camps Profiled

    The New York Times profiled the NSA GenCyger program. This program funds organizations to hold cybersecurity summer camps for kids.  Attendance is free for the students and in 2015 there are 43 camps and 1,400 campers.  The Berekley Camp used…

  • Highlights of the SoS Lablets Quarterly Meeting at CMU

    The Science of Security (SoS) quarterly Lablet meeting, sponsored by NSA, was hosted by the Carnegie Mellon University Lablet on July 14 and 15, 2015.  Quarterly meetings are held to share research, coordinate, present interim findings, and…

  • Cyber Grand Challenge Finalist Announced

    Darpa annouced the 7 finalist for the Cyber Grand Challenge with a $2 million prize.

  • Where is Science is Taking Us in Cybersecurity?

    Dan Geer, one of the distingiushed experts of the SoS paper competition, wrote an article on science in cybersecurity http://www.lawfareblog.com/where-science-taking-us-cybersecurity

  • NSA Research Supports the Next Generation of Scientists and Engineers

    NSA 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

  • Amazon Raises Prices for Mechanical Turk

    Amazon 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/

  • Washington Post Article on L0pht

    The 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/…

  • UIUC to lead DHS initiative to beef up nation's cyber infrastructure

    The 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…

  • Berkeley Browser Study

    International 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.  …

  • Cybersecurity Experimentation of the Future

    The 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…

  • The Deter Project

    The 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…

  • ISEF Winners Announced for NSA Research Directorate Award

    The 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…