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Military's Use Of Social Security Numbers A Vulnerability For Veterans By Patricia Murphy – KUOW (Seattle Public Radio) A massive data breach at the federal Office of Personnel Management has...

Naval Academy and UMBC to Collaborate on Cyber Projects and Education U.S. Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Ted Carter signed a Cooperative Research Acquisition and Development Agreement...

Dr. Rick Forno, CSEE’s Cybersecurity Graduate Program Director, was a presenter at the inaugural BSides Charm City technical security conference held at Howard County Community College in...

  This weekend, UMBC’s Cyber Defense Team (the ‘CyberDawgs’) took first place at the 2015 National CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC). UMBC was one of ten teams...

Last week, health insurance giant Anthem revealed that the personal information of as many as 80 million customers was stolen by hackers. This news came just days before President Obama announced...

Two of UMBC’s regular hackathon participants took 3rd place at MHacks, a competitive 1000 student hackathon at the University of Michigan this past weekend! CSEE students Michael Bishoff...

CSEE’s Dr. Rick Forno was a panelist for Schmoocon 2015’s closing plenary session on January 18 in Washington, DC. The session, entitled “Get Off My Lawn: Examining Change through the Eyes of The...

In the December 2014 issue of AFCEA’s SIGNAL Magazine, CSEE’s Dr. Rick Forno comments on the likelihood of a destructive cyberattack on critical American infrastructure. He was one of several...

  UMBC’s Cybersecurity Graduate Program Director Dr. Rick Forno and Homer Minnick, Director of UMBC Training Centers’ Cyber Academy, were featured in a recent Daily Record article examining...

UMBC CYBR MPS students Zack Rich and Jeff Scheier (pictured) are interns at the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) in Rockville, MD. On October 15, 2014, they presented...