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College Park announces new Cybersecurity honors program

    UMBC's sister school to the south, the University of Maryland, College Park just announced plans for a new honors program in Cybersecurity called Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for...

Posted: June 13, 2012, 8:21 AM

How LinkedIn should have protected your password

Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda. If you have a LinkedIn account, you probably noticed the news that 6.5 million of their passwords were leaked. While the passwords were encrypted, it's still a major...

Posted: June 8, 2012, 9:20 AM

Flame spy malware infiltrating Middle East computers

Russia-based anti-virus firm Kaspersky Labs has described a new cyber attack toolkit dubbed Flame (Worm.Win32.Flame) which they describe as "what might be the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet."...

Posted: May 28, 2012, 11:26 AM

Privacy Engineering

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...

Posted: April 14, 2012, 1:40 PM

Privacy Engineering

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...

Posted: April 14, 2012, 1:40 PM

Privacy Engineering

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...

Posted: April 14, 2012, 1:40 PM

UMBC Cyberdawgs are recruiting

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...

Posted: March 19, 2012, 11:51 AM

talk: Securing Cyber-Physical Systems, 3/26

  Securing Cyber-Physical Systems Alvaro Cardenas Fujitsu Laboratories of America 1:00pm Monday 26 March 2012, ITE 325b, UMBC Our critical infrastructure systems are being modernized...

Posted: March 18, 2012, 8:08 PM

talk: Self-sustainable Cyber-physical System Design

Self-sustainable Cyber-physical System Design Dr. Nilanjan Banerjee University of Arkansas Fayetteville 1:00pm Tuesday 13 March 2012, ITE 325b UMBC Renewable energy can enable diverse...

Posted: March 10, 2012, 12:33 AM

talk: Analytics for Detecting Web and Social Media Abuse

Analytics for Detecting Web and Social Media Abuse Dr. Justin Ma, UC Berkeley 1:00pm Friday 16 March 2012, ITE 325, UMBC The Web and online social media provide invaluable communication...

Posted: March 10, 2012, 12:01 AM