Cybersecurity News

UMBC Receives $1M NSF Grant for its SFS Cybersecurity Program

Three year award will support five new Cyber Scholars

The National Science Foundation awarded UMBC a third grant to continue its Scholarship for Service (SFS) cybersecurity scholarship program directed by computer science professors Alan T. Sherman...

Posted: August 12, 2025, 12:25 PM

UMBC Cyberscholars

UMBC hosts 2026 Security Standardisation Research Conference

To be held December 13-15, 2026 in Baltimore

UMBC will host the 2026 Security Standardisation Research Conference (SSR), which will be held December 13-15, 2026 in Baltimore and will include a co-located protocol analysis workshop. The...

Posted: July 31, 2025, 10:52 AM

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INCS-CoE Seminar on UAV Security Challenges

7:00-8:30 am EDT Wednesday, July 16, 2025.

The International Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, of which UMBC is a member, will hold an online seminar on Security Challenges for UAVs via ZOOM from 7:00-8:30 am on Wednesday, July 16, 2025....

Posted: July 14, 2025, 7:07 PM

INCS-COE: International Cybersecurity Center of Excellence

DoIT Student Digital Stories: Graduating senior William Brooks

Navigating Cybersecurity: Insights from a CS Major

UMBC DoIT has a post featuring graduating computer science major senior William Brooks, who has been working in DoIT's Cybersecurity Assurance and Digital Trust group. William describes his...

Posted: May 9, 2025, 10:15 AM

Talk: Charles Nicholas on Issues in Document Security, May 9

12-1pm EDT Friday, May 9, 2025, online

The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab Issues in Document Security Charles Nicholas, UMBC Joint work with Robert Joyce, Ran Liu, Edward Raff, Maksim Eren, Rick Forno, and Cynthia Matuszek 12–1pm...

Posted: May 5, 2025, 2:49 PM

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Graduating Computer Science senior Ethan Cheung

Journey to Cybersecurity: From DoIT to MITRE

UMBC’s Department of Information Technology (DoIT) has a post and video on graduating computer science senior Ethan Cheung. For several years, he worked as an intern as part of DoIT's...

Posted: May 3, 2025, 10:29 AM

talk: Adaptive Domain Inference Attack with Concept Hierarchy 4/11

12-1pm EDT Friday, April 11, 2025, online

Adaptive Domain Inference Attack with Concept Hierarchy Professor Keke Chen, CSEE, UMBC 12–1pm Fri., April 11, 2025 online  Joint work with Yuechun Gu and Jiajie He To appear, 2015 Int. Conf....

Posted: April 9, 2025, 2:54 PM

UMBC's CyberDawgs Capture the Flag Competition 4/18-20

Friday, April 18 -- Sunday, April 20, in-person & online

UMBC's CyberDawgs group will hold their annual DawgCTF event on Friday, April 18th through Sunday, April 20th. It is an in-house and beginner-friendly Capture-the-Flag competition. You can sign up...

Posted: March 28, 2025, 10:58 AM