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Newswise: New Integrated Risk Analysis Framework Enhances Cybersecurity for SMEs
Released: 30-Jul-2024 9:05 PM EDT
New Integrated Risk Analysis Framework Enhances Cybersecurity for SMEs
Higher Education Press

MARISMA is a risk analysis framework designed to improve cybersecurity for businesses by offering adaptive, real-time protection for digital assets against evolving threats.

Released: 30-Jul-2024 4:00 PM EDT
NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur announce seven joint research projects launching their new partnership
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) have unveiled their inaugural roster of collaborative research projects, the first such initiatives under the partnership that NYU and IIT Kanpur established last year. The projects aim to advance fields including cybersecurity, biotech, AI, robotics, and wireless communications.

Released: 29-Jul-2024 10:15 AM EDT
UWF awarded $320,210 to help students understand and prepare applications for security clearance
University of West Florida

The Florida Defense Support Task Force awarded UWF $320,210 to develop a pilot program that helps students prepare security clearance applications and understand the process of applying for a security clearance.

Newswise: Enhancing Cloud Data Security for Efficient and Private Queries with New Encrypt-Then-Index Strategy
Released: 24-Jul-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Enhancing Cloud Data Security for Efficient and Private Queries with New Encrypt-Then-Index Strategy
Higher Education Press

A novel encrypt-then-index strategy improves secure data queries on encrypted cloud databases, offering enhanced efficiency and privacy-preserving machine learning.

Newswise: Mass layoffs and data breaches could be connected, according to researchers
Released: 23-Jul-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Mass layoffs and data breaches could be connected, according to researchers
Binghamton University, State University of New York

A research team led by faculty from Binghamton University, State University of New York has been exploring how mass layoffs and data breaches could be connected. Their theory: since layoffs create conditions where disgruntled employees face added stress or job insecurity, they are more likely to engage in risky behaviors that heighten the company’s vulnerability to data breaches.

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Released: 22-Jul-2024 4:05 PM EDT
IT Outage Causes Issues Across the Globe: Cyber Resilience Researchers React
Loughborough University

Andrew Peck, a cyber resilience PhD researcher at Loughborough University who, prior to joining the institute, had a career delivering IT solutions to big industry, healthcare and government, and Professor Oli Buckley, an expert in cyber security, have reacted to the IT outage news.

Released: 19-Jul-2024 12:00 PM EDT
Expert Available: Global Computer Outage Disrupts Critical Infrastructure
George Washington University

A major IT outage has impacted services worldwide, disrupting banks, hospitals and medical services, and critical infrastructure. ...

   
Released: 19-Jul-2024 12:00 PM EDT
Expert Available: GW Travel Expert on the Thousands of Flights Cancelled or Delayed After Mass IT Outage
George Washington University

A major IT outage has disrupted critical infrastructure services worldwide today. ...

Released: 18-Jul-2024 3:05 PM EDT
DOE Announces $52 Million for Small Business Research and Development Grants
Department of Energy, Office of Science

In support of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced awards totaling $52 million for a broad range of small businesses in 39 states.

Newswise: Champion emerges in U.S. Department of Energy’s 2024 CyberForce® Conquer the Hill® — Reign Edition
Released: 16-Jul-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Champion emerges in U.S. Department of Energy’s 2024 CyberForce® Conquer the Hill® — Reign Edition
Argonne National Laboratory

Students from 77 colleges and universities raced to escape a five-level virtual escape room filled with cyber and energy-based challenges.

Newswise: Researchers use AI to make children safer online
Released: 10-Jul-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Researchers use AI to make children safer online
Virginia Tech

From the threat of “sextortion” to cybergrooming, children and teens face a growing range of online crimes, and three Virginia Tech researchers are working to make the digital world safer for them.

9-Jul-2024 8:00 AM EDT
A simple firmware update completely hides a device’s Bluetooth fingerprint
University of California San Diego

A smartphone's unique Bluetooth fingerprint could be used to track the device's user--until now. A team of researchers have developed a simple firmware update that can completely hide the Bluetooth fingerprint, eliminating the vulnerability. The method was developed by a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego.

Newswise: CAREER award recipient seeks to secure web addresses
Released: 8-Jul-2024 2:10 PM EDT
CAREER award recipient seeks to secure web addresses
Virginia Tech

Taejoong "Tijay" Chung's overall mission is to educate industry leaders, researchers, and the public about threats to cybersecurity and how to protect themselves from bad actors.

Released: 2-Jul-2024 9:00 AM EDT
ASU receives $4.5M grant to educate the next generation of cybersecurity professionals
Arizona State University (ASU)

The American Cybersecurity Education Initiative will develop a master's degree in cybersecurity systems at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University.

Newswise: Overburdened caseworkers put foster youths’ online safety on the back burner
Released: 27-Jun-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Overburdened caseworkers put foster youths’ online safety on the back burner
University of Notre Dame

Foster parents and caseworkers believe sexual-related risks are the top concern for online safety for youths in the U.S. child welfare system. But how these two groups approach technology access and other online risks is conflicted, according to research from the University of Notre Dame.



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