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CyLab's Alessandro Acquisti __ Co-Authors Release 7 Year Study on Evolution of Facebook Privacy and Disclosure
/news_events/news/2013/acquisti-7-year-study-facebook-privacy.htmlIn his latest study on Facebook, Acquisti, together with co-authors Gross and Stutzman, focuses on "the tension between privacy choices as expressions of individual subjective preferences, and the role of the environment in shaping those choices."
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CyLab Researchers Virgil Gligor and David Brumley Receive Honors
/news_events/news/2013/gligor-and-brumley-receive-honors.htmlCyLab Director Virgil Gligor has been selected to receive the 2013 IEEE Technical Achievement Award. CyLab researcher David Brumley is one of four Carnegie Mellon University faculty members awarded a prestigious 2013 Sloan Research Fellowship.
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CMU Privacy Day Highlights Challenges and Showcases Research
/news_events/news/2013/privacy-day-highlights-challenges.htmlData Privacy Day is an effort to empower people to protect their privacy and control their digital footprint and escalate the protection of privacy and data as everyone’s priority.
Lightning In A Bottle? A Brief Tour Of CyLab Online
posted by Richard Power
Indeed, CyLab is an audacious undertaking; and doing justice to such audacity has been quite a challenge. How do you sustain a narrative that is so complex? How do you communicate the prevailing spirit of the overall program, while at the same time documenting the painstaking progress of individual researchers?
Mike Farb Offers Insights Into SafeSlinger, CyLab's Powerful New Smartphone App
posted by Richard Power
"We want to provide secure operations even with careless users and powerful local adversaries who can monitor our messages and potentially alter our messages."
CyLab's Strong Presence Continues at Annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
posted by Richard Power
"In this paper, we present the Crossfire attack. This attack can effectively cut off the Internet connections of a targeted enterprise (e.g., a university campus, a military base, a set of energy distribution stations); it can also disable up to 53% of the total number of Internet connections of some US states, and up to about 33% of all the connections of the West Coast of the US."
CyLab Seminars Series Offers Vital Perspectives on Critical Issues in Cyber Security and Privacy
posted by Richard Power
On Mondays at noon, during the school year, CyLab presents its Seminar Series. These talks highlight the research of CyLab faculty, as well as, visiting scholars. In addition, through the CyLab Business Risks Forum, experts in security and privacy from business and government share vital operational perspectives.
After years of NCIS and other popular law enforcement TV dramas, there is an expectation that facial recognition technology could have led to a speedier conclusion to the Boston Marathon bombing suspect manhunt, or perhaps even have prevented the savage attack.
Lorrie Cranor - Spoofing Operating System Security Interfaces to Study User Security Behaviors
Michael Farb - SafeSlinger: Applied Ad-hoc Smartphone Trust Establishment
Jonathan McCune - Verifying the Integrity of Peripherals' Firmware
Pei Zhang - SensorFly and Beyond: Flying Sensing Systems in the Wild
cylab in the headlines
Those meters that rate password strength work, until they don't
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June 11, 2013 "Passwords are not going to disappear overnight, or in the next 10 years or 20 years," said Lujo Bauer, researcher at Carnegie Mellon CyLab. Bauer and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon conducted the study with 2,931 subjects who created passwords on sites using one of 14 types of meters with different displays and criteria for determining strength.
Limiting Risks Found in the Cloud
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June 10, 2013 "We're hoping that the cloud service providers understand insider threat," Carnegie Mellon CyLab researcher Dawn Cappelli says. "We have recommendations that we provide for organizations for what they should do to protect themselves against rogue administrators and to protect themselves against theft of intellectual property. Our hope is that cloud service providers understand that as well."
“Hallucinating” a face, new software could have ID’d Boston bomber
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May 29, 2013 Dr. Marios Savvides, the director of the CyLab Biometrics Center, said that the new technology could generate results much more detailed than those made by traditional image enhancement approaches. "The traditional methods yield about a 2 times to 4 times improvement" in the resolution of a facial image, he said. "This method gets us 16 times the resolution."
July 8, 2013: CERT Training Information Security for Technical Staff This five-day course is designed to provide participants with practical techniques for protecting the security of an organization's information assets and resources, beginning with concepts and proceeding on to technical implementations.
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