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Released: 4-May-2016 4:05 PM EDT
Army Grant Funds Research Into Extremist Flash Mobs
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

A University of Arkansas at Little Rock researcher is expanding his investigation of extremist cyber flash mobs — particularly those that lead to violent or damaging behavior.

Released: 4-May-2016 1:05 PM EDT
Phoney Protection for Passwords
Inderscience Publishers

Corporate data breaches seem to be on the rise, rarely a week passes without a company revealing that its database has been hacked and regrettably usernames, passwords, credit card details and its customers' personal information has been leaked on to the open internet. A new protection, nicknamed Phoney, is reported in the International Journal of Embedded Systems.

   
Released: 27-Apr-2016 8:05 AM EDT
Researchers Receive Grant to Improve Security of Online Social Networks
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

University of Arkansas computer science and engineering professor Xintao Wu has received $348,758 from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on detecting fraud and cyberattacks against online social networks.

Released: 26-Apr-2016 1:05 PM EDT
Magnifying Smartphone Screen Apps For Visually Impaired, Online Anti-Bullying Programs, A One Atom Engine and more in the Technology News Source
Newswise

Magnifying Smartphone Screen Apps For Visually Impaired, Online Anti-Bullying Programs, A One Atom Engine and more in the Technology News Source

   
Released: 20-Apr-2016 1:05 PM EDT
Cyber Defense Competition 2016
Argonne National Laboratory

Please join us for our inaugural Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition where teams of college students compete to design and defend a mock utility system (power plant) from attack.

Released: 13-Apr-2016 5:05 AM EDT
DHS, NASA Partner in Search of Innovation in Homeland Security
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

DHS announced today a partnership with the NASA Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) to develop new technology solutions through publicly crowdsourced prize competitions.

Released: 13-Apr-2016 5:05 AM EDT
DHS S&T Announces New Cybersecurity Risk Analysis Tool on the Commerical Market
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

DHS S&T announced a fifth cybersecurity technology has been licensed for commercialization as a part of the Cyber Security Division’s Transition to Practice program.

Released: 11-Apr-2016 2:05 PM EDT
Is Your Anti-Terrorism Technology SAFETY Act Certified? It Should Be!
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

The SAFETY Act provide critical incentives for the development and deployment of anti-terrorism technologies by providing liability protections for sellers of "qualified anti-terrorism technologies."

Released: 8-Apr-2016 2:05 PM EDT
UW-Led Research Team Wins $7.5M MURI Grant to Defend Against Advanced Cyberattacks
University of Washington

A University of Washington-led research team has won a $7.5 million, five-year Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant from the Department of Defense to better model and mount defenses against stealthy, continuous computer hacking attacks known as "advanced persistent threats."

Released: 8-Apr-2016 7:05 AM EDT
DHS S&T’s Mobile Security Performer to Be First R&D Performer Added to GSA It Schedule 70
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

DHS S&T announced that their first cybersecurity R&D mobile security performer is now available to federal agencies through General Services Administration’s (GSA) IT Schedule 70.

7-Apr-2016 5:05 PM EDT
Panama Papers Show Billions of Dollars Stashed Away by the Wealthy Elite, Including Several World Leaders; Experts Needed
Newswise Trends

Experts needed to explain which countries provide tax havens and do not comply with international regulations. How did investigative journalists examine the millions of files from the Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca and trace them back to prominent world leaders?

   
Released: 1-Apr-2016 2:05 PM EDT
Breakthrough in Cybersecurity Is No Phish Story
University at Buffalo

Corporations, small businesses and public sector entities have tried unsuccessfully for years to educate consumers and employees on how to recognize phishing emails.

   
29-Mar-2016 2:05 PM EDT
Doctoral Student’s Research Enhances Cybersecurity via Rapid Address Change
University of Alabama Huntsville

Research enhancing cybersecurity by changing a networked device’s IP address repeatedly at a very fast pace has won recognition for a computer engineering doctoral student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).

Released: 28-Mar-2016 10:05 AM EDT
College Cyber Defenders Get Set for “Operation Cyber Bailout” at Johns Hopkins APL
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

2016 Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Features Eight Regional Schools Testing Their Skills against Professional Cybersecurity Experts

Released: 23-Mar-2016 3:05 PM EDT
Shuffling May Be Best Cybersecurity Defense
George Mason University School of Management

A team of George Mason researchers proposes a “moving-target” defense against distributed denial-of-service attacks. The defense works by repeatedly shuffling client-to-server assignments to identify and eventually quarantine malicious clients.

Released: 22-Mar-2016 2:05 PM EDT
Suicide Bomber Attacks in Brussels Kills Dozens. ISIS Claims Responsibility. Experts Needed For Media
Newswise

Suicide bomber attack in brussels kills dozens. ISS claims responsibility. Cities around the world ramp up security. Experts needed for media.

       


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