News
  • New DoD Initiative Bridges Gap to Silicon Valley
    The DoD established a new center in Silicon Valley to help bridge the gap between the Pentagon and the tech world of Silicon Valley.  Defense Innovation Unit–Experimental (DIU-x) was annouced in April, and in August its first leaders were annouced.…
  • Blackhat News - Attack on Macs, infects firmware, bricks device
    http://www.wired.com/2015/08/researchers-create-first-firmware-worm-attacks-macs/
  • "Science of Security" Category on Jeopardy!
    This news tidpit is a little old, its from March 2015, but on Jeopardy! there was a category called "Science of Security." It was sponsored by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with video clues recorded there.  While cybersecurity was not part…
  • 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…