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Cybersecurity America's Greatest Threat - Director of National IntelligenceOn February 9th, 2016, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released a report, Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The report calls out cyber threats as the greatest…
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Prof Angela Sasse - director of the UK Research Institute in Science of Cyber Security interviwed by BBCProf Angela Sasse - director of the UK Research Institute in Science of Cyber Securit and Distinguished Expert of NSA Paper Competition was asked by the BBC on her thoughts about cybersecurity aspects with VTech Children's Toys. http://www.bbc.com/news/…
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Lablet Quarterly Meeting at NCSU - Feb 2016Researchers and NSA meet, discuss Science of Security and value of secure design.
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Research Team shows need for CPS security research to FTCPrinceton Researchers presented their research into cyber physical systems (IoT) to the FTC. They found issues in how these devices protected data, often using no encryption. Blog Entry: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/feamster/who-will-secure-…
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Important news regarding HotSoS 2016!The deadline for submissions to HotSoS 2016 is extended to close of business Wednesday January 27 (anywhere on Earth). Details regarding scope, format, and other particulars are at our website: http://cps-vo.org/group/hotsos/cfp We welcome…
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FDA Releases Draft Guidlines for Cybersecurity in Medical DevicesThe 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/…
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HotSoS 2016 -- Impending Deadline and Important InformationDear 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:
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Researchers find hitting backspace 28 logins into LinuxA 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
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Congrats to SoS Researchers being ACM FellowsThree 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. …
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Science Announced Winners of Annual Dance your PhD ContestScience'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
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NSA Releases Science of Security Issue of The Next WaveThe 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…
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CMU Lablet PI to be FTC Chief TechnologistCMU 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-…