Cybersecurity News

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...

  Robot Governance – Institutions and Issues   Dr. Aaron Mannes, ISHPI Information Technologies 10:30-11:30 Tuesday, 24 July 2018, ITE 346   Inexpensive sensors and information storage...

Baltimore’s WBAL-TV ran a short news item on UMBC’s new partnership with Keio Research Institute (KRIS) in Japan, and Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) in the UK to investigate the use of...

University leaders, including Karl V. Steiner, third from right, signed the three-nation agreement in a ceremony at the sixth International Cybersecurity Symposium in Japan. Photo courtesy of Karl...

UMBC SFS Cybersecurity Spring Meeting Student Project Reports and Cybersecurity from the view of NSA’s Cybersecurity Threat Operations Center Dave Hogue, Technical Director of NSA’s...

Big Data, Security and Privacy Prof. Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas 11:00-12:00 Wednesday, 16 May 2018, ITE 459, UMBC The collection, storage, manipulation and retention...

UMBC Cyber Defense Lab SPARCLE: Practical Homomorphic Encryption Russ Fink Senior Scientist Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Laboratory 12:00–1:00pm Friday, April 27, 2018, ITE...

SFS cyberdefense scholarship applications due April 27 The next application deadline for SFS cyberdefense scholarships to UMBC is 12noon Friday April 27, 2018, for possible scholarships...