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NCSU Lablet holds Annual Community DayOctober 20, 2016 - The Science of Security Lablet at North Carolina State University held its annual Community Day. This event brought together researchers, industry and government to get to know the lablet's research and create collaboration. The…
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Gen-Cyber Receiving Proposals for 2017 Summer CampsWant to host a camp for Gen Cyber 2017? The NSA and NSF are receiving proposals for 2017 camps until November 4th, 2016. Gen Cyber is a program that provides funding to host no-cost camps for students/teachers to teach cybersecurity and…
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Register to Attend 4th Annual HoTSoS Symposium & BootcampRegistration is open for the 4th Annual Hot Topics in the Science of Security (HoTSoS) Symposium and Bootcamp, which will be held April 4-5, 2017 at The Hotel at Arundel Preserve in Hanover, Maryland. The symposium will include a mix of invited talks,…
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Winners of 4th SoS Paper Competition Announced"Nomad: Mitigating Arbitrary Cloud Side Channels via Provider-Assisted Migration" has been announced as the winning paper of the 4th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition. Two additional papers were selected to receive an honorable…
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Take a CMU Behavior StudyGeorge Loewenstein, Professor of Economics and Psychology, at Carnegie Mellon University is holding a behavior study that people can participate in. Additional Information:
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October is Cybersecurity Awareness MonthOctober is here and it is the annual cybersecurity awareness month time. The theme this year is "Our Shared Responsibility." Government, Industry and Academia are all doing activities to raise the awarness of cybersecurity. The first week's theme is Stop…
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Growing Importance of IoTThe Importance of defending IoT and the impact on the rest of cyberworld is becoming even more plenty obvious. This week, OVH.com reported that they were victims of a new recorded breaking monster cyber attack of over 1tbs of data. The data was from a…
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Apache Spot - New Open Source Project for Cyber AnalyticsThe Apache Foundation accepted a new Open Source Project - Spot. It was donated to them from Intel and Cloudera. It's a platform on Hadoop to do cloud data analytics to find cyber threats. Apache Spot can analyze billions of events in order to detect…
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Microsoft's Interest in FPGAsWired Magazine has a great artcile about Micros'ft Catapult; an effort to integrate FPGAs into servers. While originally the FPGA effort was to help Bing; Microsoft wanted one platform for its datacenters. FPGAs are not in Azure, Microsoft's Datacenters…
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Space, the Final Frontier for Cybersecurity?David Livingstone and Patricia Lewis have released a Chatham House report on the intersection between cybersecurity and space. This report was the result of analysis into the area. It identifies the key issues associated with the management of…
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SoS-Vo Member - Shawn Riley Appointed to DarkLight Board of AdvisorsFrequent contributor to the SoS Virtual Organization. Shawn Riley was appointed to the Board of Advisors of DarkLight. DarkLight’s mission is to capture human expertise and decision making process in order to model knowledge for combating cyber threats.…
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President Obama Appoints first Chief Information Security Officer for Federal GovernmentPresident Obama appointed Gregory Touhill as the first Chief Information Security Officer, CISO, for the Federal Government. He was the Department of Homeland Security’s deputy assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications. Unlike Czar's of…