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Rick Forno discusses cybersecurity on NPR

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...

Posted: February 12, 2015, 4:15 PM

UMBC Places 3rd at MHacks

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...

Posted: January 20, 2015, 2:40 PM

Rick Forno speaks @ Schmoocon ’15

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...

Posted: January 20, 2015, 11:48 AM

CYBR students present @ NCCoE Open House

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...

Posted: October 17, 2014, 5:03 PM

UMBC partners on national cybersecurity research center

UMBC will play an exciting role in strengthening our nation’s cybersecurity infrastructure through a new Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) announced this week. The National...

Posted: October 9, 2014, 12:08 PM

hackUMBC ’14 concludes

Last weekend, over 170 college and high school students converged upon UMBC for the second hackUMBC hackathon. This free event, spanning 24 continuous hours, brought students together to create,...

Posted: September 30, 2014, 10:35 AM

CYBR students participate in cybersecurity wargame

On September 18, students from UMBC’s Graduate Cybersecurity Program joined others from Penn State, Penn State Harrisburg, and the Dickinson College of Law at the U.S. Army War College’s Center...

Posted: September 23, 2014, 11:09 AM

NSA grant supports cyber-challenge prizes

CSEE’s Dr. Rick Forno, Cybersecurity GPD and Assistant Director of UMBC’s Center for Cybersecurity, has received an $84K grant from the National Security Agency (NSA) to fund the prizes for...

Posted: September 10, 2014, 4:29 PM