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  • FDA Releases Draft Guidlines for Cybersecurity in Medical Devices
    The Food and Drug Administration has released draft cybersecurity guidelines for medical device makers. Press Release: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm481968.htm PDF of Guidelines: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/…
  • HotSoS 2016 -- Impending Deadline and Important Information
    Dear SoS Community, This is a reminder of the deadlines for the HotSoS 2016 conference. Most importantly, papers are due on Friday 22 Jan 2016. Here are some late-breaking points of clarification regarding the call:
  • Researchers find hitting backspace 28 logins into Linux
    A security researchers from at Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) in Spain, found that htting backspace 28 times on login messages can bypass the login screen. http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2015-8370-Grub2-authentication-bypass.html#exploit
  • Congrats to SoS Researchers being ACM Fellows
    Three researchers doing foundational cybersecurity research were honored with being named ACM fellows.  UC Irvine's Michael Franz, CMU's Frank Pfenning and Penn State's Patrick McDaniel.  Michael Franz was also named as an IEEE Fellow. …
  • Science Announced Winners of Annual Dance your PhD Contest
    Science's Magazine has an annual contest to do an interrpreted dance of phd dissertations. The 2015 winners were annouced. http://news.sciencemag.org/people-events/2015/11/announcing-2015-dance-your-ph-d-winner
  • NSA Releases Science of Security Issue of The Next Wave
    The National Security Agency has released a new issue of its unclassified reserach magazine, The Next Wave, that is focused on Science of Security research.  Many of the articles included were written by or about SoS research projects.  It is a…
  • CMU Lablet PI to be FTC Chief Technologist
    CMU Lablet Project PI, Professor Lorrie Faith Cranor was named by the Federal Trade Commission to serve as the agency’s chief technologist, starting in January. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2015/12/federal-trade-commission-appoints-…
  • Call for Papers - Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS)
    The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information security and privacy, combining expertise from the fields of economics, social science, business, law, policy, and computer…
  • 4th BSCPC Open for Submissions
    The 4th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition is now open for submissions. NSA invites nominations of papers published between January 1st 2015 and December 31st 2015 that show an outstanding contribution to cybersecurity science. …
  • Lablets Provide Updates on Research Projects and Progress on SoS Hard Problems at UMD Quarterly Meeting
    Status of research on SoS hard problems and updates on Lablet research were the focus topics at the recent Lablet Quarterly meeting. The meeting, sponsored by NSA, was hosted by the Lablet at the University of Maryland (UMD) on October 26…
  • SURE Gathers to Report on 2015 Resiliency Work
    SURE researchers met for their annual review of System Science of SecUrity and REsilience for Cyber-Physical Systems (SURE) projects. Four universities (Vanderbilt, Hawaii, California-Berkeley, and MIT) researchers gathered with members of…
  • Emoji Passwords?
    Prof Lorrie Cranor was interviewed by NPR about the potential of using emoji as passwords. http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/06/15/414742418/emoji-passwords-could-be-coming-your-way-is-that-a-good-thing