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Take my word for it: Privacy and COVID alert apps can coexist

BY LORRIE CRANOR, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR -- 11/10/20 09:30 AM EST Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, technologists across the country have rushed to develop digital apps for contact tracing and exposure notifications. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware have all recently announced the launch of such apps,...

Take my word for it: Privacy and COVID alert apps can coexist

NSA and SoS Announce Winner of the 8th Paper Competition

The National Security Agency and Science of Security annouced that "Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution" as the winner of its 8th Annual Best Cybersecurity Research Paper competition. Originally published at the 2019 IEEE Security & Privacy Symposium, the winning paper, in combination with Meltdown,...

NSA and SoS Announce Winner of the 8th Paper Competition

Science of Security and Privacy 2019 Annual Report

The Science of Security and Privacy 2019 Annual Report is now available. This report highlights the progress and accomplishments of the Science of Security and Privacy initiative.

Science of Security and Privacy 2019 Annual Report

Spotlight on Lablet Research #12 - Operationalizing Contextual Integrity

Spotlight on Lablet Research #12 - Project: Operationalizing Contextual Integrity Lablet: International Computer Science Institute Sub-Lablet: Cornell Tech The ultimate goal of this research is to design new privacy controls that are grounded in the theory of Contextual Integrity (CI) so that they can...

Spotlight on Lablet Research #12 - Operationalizing Contextual Integrity

Michael Rausch & William Sanders win Best Paper Award at QEST 2020

Congratulations to Michael Rausch & William Sanders for winning the Best Paper Award at QEST 2020! "Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification of State-Based Discrete-Event Simulation Models through a Stacked Ensemble of Metamodels" was presented by Michael Rausch on behalf of himself and Dr. Sanders on day...

Michael Rausch & William Sanders win Best Paper Award at QEST 2020

Cybersecurity Snapshots #12 - Open Source Code: Is It Secure?

Cybersecurity Snapshots #12 - Open Source Code: Is It Secure? Many organizations are adopting the use of open source code to help them develop commercial applications faster. A third of the average commercial application code base is comprised from open source code. Since many organizations rely on producing software...

Cybersecurity Snapshots #12 - Open Source Code: Is It Secure?

SoS Musings #43 - Crowdsourcing Security with Bug Bounty Programs

SoS Musings #43 - Crowdsourcing Security with Bug Bounty Programs Companies are increasingly enlisting the help of ethical hackers through bug bounty programs. Bug bounty programs are crowdsourcing initiatives that encourage security researchers to find and appropriately report the security issues they discover to...

SoS Musings #43 - Crowdsourcing Security with Bug Bounty Programs

Science of Security’s Annual Security Conference Goes Virtual and Gets Record Attendance

https://www.nsa.gov/News-Features/Feature-Stories/Article-View/Article/2396500/science-of-securitys-annual-security-conference-goes-virtual-and-gets-r... Photo of Adam Tagert behind computer monitor FT. MEADE, Md., Oct. 28, 2020 -- October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), so we have been celebrating...

Science of Security’s Annual Security Conference Goes Virtual and Gets Record Attendance

NSA and SoS Announce Winner of the 8th Paper Competition
The National Security Agency and Science of Security annouced that "... more
Take my word for it: Privacy and COVID alert apps can coexist
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Science of Security and Privacy 2019 Annual Report
The Science of Security and Privacy 2019 Annual Report is now... more
"Malicious NPM Packages Used to Install njRAT Remote Access Trojan"
The open-source security firm Sonatype found malicious NPM packages... more
"Driven by Ransomware, Cyber Claims Rise in Number & Value"
The insurance company Allianz recently released a report highlighting... more
"Electronic Medical Records Cracked Open by OpenClinic Bugs"
Researchers at Bishop Fox have discovered four vulnerabilities in the... more
"Cyber-Attack Exposes Data of 295,000 Colorado Springs Patients"
AspenPointe, a nonprofit mental health and behavioral health services... more

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12/01/20 - 12/03/20

The 6th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (Online)
12/02/20 - 12/04/20

22nd IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (Online)
12/02/20 - 12/03/20

Legal Cybersecurity Expo (Online)
12/02/20

DS3 Summit - Web Security Talks and Panel

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Guest Editorial: Advances in Parallel Graph Processing: Algorithms, Architectures, and Application Frameworks
Abstract: The papers in this special section explore recent advancements in parallel graph processing. In the sphere of modern data science and data-driven applications, graph algorithms have achieved a pivotal place in advancing the state of scientific discovery and knowledge. Nearly three centuries of... more
SharaBLE: A Software Framework for Shared Usage of BLE Devices over the Internet
Abstract: With the development of Internet of Things, numerous IoT devices have been brought into our daily lives. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), due to the low energy consumption and generic service stack, has become one of the most popular wireless communication technologies for IoT. However, because of the... more
iDaaS: Inter-Datacenter Network as a Service
Abstract: Increasing number of Internet-scale applications, such as video streaming, incur huge amount of wide area traffic. Such traffic over the unreliable Internet without bandwidth guarantee suffers unpredictable network performance. This result, however, is unappealing to the application providers.... more
Intelligent Resource Scheduling at Scale: A Machine Learning Perspective
Abstract: Resource scheduling in a computing system addresses the problem of packing tasks with multi-dimensional resource requirements and non-functional constraints. The exhibited heterogeneity of workload and server characteristics in Cloud-scale or Internet-scale systems is adding further complexity and... more
A Fast MPEG’s CDVS Implementation for GPU Featured in Mobile Devices
Abstract: The Moving Picture Experts Group's Compact Descriptors for Visual Search (MPEG's CDVS) intends to standardize technologies in order to enable an interoperable, efficient, and cross-platform solution for internet-scale visual search applications and services. Among the key technologies... more

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Science of Security Intern Program (SoS) - Accepting Applications
The National Security Agency (NSA) Science of Security (SoS) & Privacy...
Young Faculty Award (YFA) Program
Young Faculty Award (YFA) Program Solicitation Number: DARPA-RA-19-01 Agency...
Cybersecurity postdoc at North Carolina State University
Come postdoc with us! This position will be part of the NSA-sponsored...
CfP: CSF 2021
CALL FOR PAPERS 34th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF 2021)...
CfP: 40th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques (EUROCRYPT 2021)
CALL FOR PAPERS 40th Annual International Conference on the Theory and...

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