Cybersecurity News

Busy teams of students clustered around laptops in a room overlooking Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on Tuesday, focused on solving as many challenges as possible during a “capture-the-flag” style...

The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents   Results from the January 2018 SFS Research Study at UMBC Enis Golaszewski, CSEE, UMBC 12:00-1:00pm Friday, 12 October 2018, ITE 227 January 22-26,...

MD-AI Meetup holds 1st event at UMBC 6-8pm Wed 10/3, 7th floor library   A new Maryland-based meetup interest group has been established for Artificial Intelligence (MD-AI Meetup) and will...

The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab   Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: A Technical Chat with the Defense Information Systems Agency James Curry Lead Engineer–DoD Cyber Security Range...

    Get hands-on cybersecurity and blockchain skills in NSA’s Codebreaker Challenge   NSA’s sixth annual Codebreaker Challenge is a hands-on, cybersecurity engineering challenge in...

The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab Phishing in an Academic Community: a Study of User Susceptibility and Behavior Alejandra Diaz University of Maryland, Baltimore County 12:00–1:00pm, Friday, 14...

  NSA highlights strong partnership with UMBC in Featured School campaign Over the past two decades, UMBC and the National Security Agency (NSA) have developed a strong relationship, which has...

Cyberattacks target Americans’ thinking. Fancy Tapis/Shutterstock.com   Weaponized information seeks a new target in cyberspace: Users’ minds Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore...

UMBC receives $5.4m in funding for new cybersecurity projects NSF and NSA Fund Three Cybersecurity Projects by Prof. Alan Sherman  Professor Alan Sherman and colleagues were recently awarded...

  2018 Maryland Cyber Challenge seeks student teams   The 2018 Maryland Cyber Challenge seeks teams willing to test a range of skills simulating real-word cyber scenarios. Teams will...