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Talk: MalDICT Benchmark Malware Datasets,12-1 ET Fri. Oct 6

Data on Behaviors, Platforms, Exploitation, and Packers

The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents MalDICT: Benchmark Datasets on Malware Behaviors, Platforms, Exploitation, and Packers RJ Joyce,  CSEE Department, UMBC 12-1pm ET, Friday, 6 October...

Posted: October 1, 2023, 2:30 PM

Richard Forno appointed Honorary International Professor

CSEE's Dr. Richard Forno, principal lecturer and cybersecuity graduate program director, was recently appointed an Honorary International Professor at the Universidad Autonoma del Estado de...

Posted: September 14, 2023, 4:19 PM

PhD defense: Knowledge Graphs & Reinforcement Learning,

a Hybrid Approach for Cybersecurity Tasks

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Knowledge Graphs and Reinforcement Learning: a Hybrid Approach for Cybersecurity Tasks Aritran Piplai 10:00am -12:00pm ET, Monday July 10, 2023...

Posted: July 8, 2023, 1:20 PM

Sherman et al. win best paper for cybersecurity education

Cybersecurity Curriculum Assessment for student knowledge

CSEE Professor Alan Sherman and his colleagues received the Best Paper award in the Computing Education Research Track  at the 2023 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium. The symposium is the main ACM...

Posted: June 26, 2023, 7:03 PM

Cybersecurity Lessons from Star Trek: Picard

How a sci-fi series illuminates today’s threats

Lessons from ‘Star Trek: Picard’ – a cybersecurity expert explains how a sci-fi series illuminates today’s threats Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Editor’s note: This...

Posted: May 25, 2023, 9:10 AM

talk: Competition Arm of the CyberDawgs, 12-1 May 12

Introduction, Overview, and Upcoming Tryouts

The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents The Competition Arm of the CyberDawgs: Introduction, Overview, and Upcoming Tryouts Kei-Won-Tia von Wrex UMBC CSEE Department 12-1pm, Friday, May...

Posted: May 8, 2023, 2:08 PM

Talk: AVScan2Vec, feature Learning on Antivirus Data, 4/14

Learns semantics for production-scale Malware Corpora

The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents AVScan2Vec: Feature Learning on Antivirus Scan Data for Production-Scale malware corpora RJ Joyce UMBC Discovery, Research, and Experimental Analysis...

Posted: April 9, 2023, 2:15 PM

Talk: Hidden Secure Fallback for Cryptocurrency Wallets 3/31

W-OTS+ up my Sleeve!

The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents W-OTS+ up my Sleeve: A Hidden Secure Fallback for Cryptocurrency Wallets Mario Yaksetig, xx labs, Cayman Islands Joint work with David Chaum and...

Posted: March 28, 2023, 9:51 PM

Dr. Rick Forno on US Cybersecurity Strategy

What it is and what has changed

What is the National Cybersecurity Strategy? A cybersecurity expert explains what it is and what the Biden administration has changed The federal government has a lot of...

Posted: March 26, 2023, 11:36 AM

Prof. Sherman & colleagues win SIGSCE best paper award

Paper presents an assessment of cybersecurity education

Test information curve for the CCA and curves for other validated CIs calculated from 2PL model fit parameters provided in the studies. Compared to other CIs, the CCA gives more information about...

Posted: March 20, 2023, 12:39 PM