We've starting to see advertisements for a new kind of position: privacy engineer. If you've seen the classic movie, The Graduate, you'll remember the conversation that recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock has with a friend of his father, who says "I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. … Are you [...]
Category: Cybersecurity
posted Monday, March 19th, 2012
UMBC's Cyber Defense Team is looking for new members. This semester the team competed in the Collegiate Cyber Defense Championship. In this competition, each team defended a mock corporate network against a horde of professional hackers in a fast-paced, real-time event over the course of two days. These competitions are a great way to network [...]
posted Sunday, March 18th, 2012
1pm 3/26: Dr. Alvaro A. Cárdenas of Fujitsu Laboratories of America will talk about his research on Securing Cyber-Physical Systems at 1:00pm on Monday, 16 March 2012 in room 325b of the ITE building at UMBC.
posted Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
1pm Fri 3/16: Dr. Justin Ma of UC Berkeley will talk about his research on developing analytic techniques to detect malicious Web sites and social media abuse. 1:00pm Friday March 16, 2012 at UMBC in room 325b of the ITE building.
posted Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
The UMBC’s Cyber Defense club, the Cyberdawgs, will be one of eight schools vying for the win at the CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Regional Finals. The competition, the first of its kind to focus on the operational aspects of protecting and managing an existing “commercial” network infrastructure, will take place at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab from March 14–18.
posted Saturday, March 10th, 2012
1pm Tue 3/13: Dr. Nilanjan Banerjee (U. Arkansas Fayetteville) talks about his research on designing a Hierarchical Power Management paradigm that combines platforms with varied energy needs to balance energy consumption and functionality, the design of an efficient harvester for sound scavenging, and sensitive ECG sensors at 1:00pm on Tuesday March 13 in ITE325b at UMBC.
posted Friday, March 2nd, 2012
1pm Mon 3/5: Ariel Rabkin of UC Berkeley talks about his research on Using Static Analysis to Diagnose Misconfigured Open Source Systems Software at 1:00pm on Monday March 5 in ITE 325b, UMBC.
posted Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Stripe, a San Francisco startup with an online-payment system, is hosting a simple online cybersecurity capture the flag (CTF) challenge. See their blog post for the details. “The hardest part of writing secure code is learning to think like an attacker. For example, every programmer is told to watch out for SQL injections, but it’s [...]
posted Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
UMBC Cyber Defense Lab Research Meeting Using data visualization techniques to support digital forensics Tim Leschke 11:00am-12:15pm, Friday, Feb 3, 2012 ITE Room 228 Digital forensic examiners explore large datasets in search of evidence of a crime. In order to keep pace with the growing amount of data that is subject to a forensic examination, [...]
posted Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Tyler Campbell, Nick Ducq, Ryan King, Andrew Nguyen and Tim Spillman walked out of the Baltimore Convention Center elated. Their team, the Sherwood Cyber Warriors, had just won the high school division of the inaugural Maryland Cyber Challenge. Their success netted them each a $5,000 scholarship from the National Security Agency. The entire experience was [...]