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“One of the very few ways to make sure that your data can’t be leaked if a company is breached is to make sure that the company (itself) doesn’t have it.” In a CNN Business article, Professor Sarah Scheffler of the Carnegie Mellon University Software and Societal Systems Department and the Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) Department at Carnegie Mellon University chats with Lisa Eadicicco about the UK-Apple fight over Advanced Data Protection: #privacy https://lnkd.in/gsbhfvbG

picoCTF’s 12th annual capture-the-flag hacking competition for middle school, high school, and college students will take place from March 7 through March 17. Learn more about how #picoCTF provides students with a gamified way to practice and show off #cybersecurity skills, and register for this year’s competition today:

A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers led by Professor Norman Sadeh of the Carnegie Mellon University Software and Societal Systems Department is studying prompt engineering techniques that could coax large language models (#LLMs) to generate more effective answers to everyday #cybersecurity questions.

Congratulations to CyLab alum Patrick Gage Kelley (Ph.D. ‘12), Sunny C., Lorrie Cranor, Jaeyeon Jung, Norman Sadeh, and David Wetherall on receiving the Test of Time Award at this week’s Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) 2025 in San Diego for their landmark 2012 work “A Conundrum of Permissions: Installing Applications on an Android Smartphone.” Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/egqVu5TU #Cybersecurity #Privacy #AI #USEC2025

Elijah Bouma-Sims, a Ph.D. student in the Carnegie Mellon University Software and Societal Systems Department, is presenting findings at today’s Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) from research aimed at learning more about the nature of YouTube giveaway scams, and determining whether teens are more susceptible to falling for them than adults. Read more about Elijah’s research below: #NDSSsymposium2025

Professor Sarah Scheffler of the Carnegie Mellon University Software and Societal Systems Department and the Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) Department at Carnegie Mellon University is currently conducting research that explores alternative content moderation methods for end-to-end-encryption (#E2EE) that are still #private and #secure.

Congratulations to CyLab alum Blase Ur (Ph.D. ‘16, Carnegie Mellon University Software and Societal Systems Department), Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science, on being recognized with the Computing Research Association (CRA) Education Committee 2025 Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award!

Many thanks to Samuel Pagliarini, Special Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, for visiting CyLab today to discuss his research on reverse engineering and backdooring hardware accelerators for post-quantum #cryptography as part of the CyLab Seminar Series.

Check out the latest episode of Ripple's University Blockchain Research Initiative (#UBRI) podcast "All About Blockchain," featuring Riad S. Wahby, CyLab faculty member and CEO of Cubist, a startup partner in the CyLab Venture Network: