On Thursday, April 5th, SPICE’s Cyber Security Defense team heads out to compete in Argonne National Laboratory’s Cyber Defense Competition 2018. Led by Team Leader George Osterholdt, six researchers will compete in the 2018 Capture The Flag (CTF) competition. This
Indiana University has three teams competing in the Atlantic Council’s Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge in Washington, D.C. The teams are comprised of Ph.D. and Masters students that are from the School of Informatics, Computing,
IUPUI-March 18th- Bsides Indy kicked off its 2018 Hackathon with speakers and workshops on network and IoT security. While speakers addressed topics from phishing to social engineering, others ran workshops in networking and IoT hacking. Saturday included more talks and
A jogging club in your neighborhood, the perfect trail to go on a bike ride, a work friend’s home address, maybe a top secret military base–whatever location you’re looking for, chances are
In a recent test of practical cyber skills, Indiana University’s young Capture The Flag (CTF) team has taken second place in their first competition of the year. The effort was led by two team members, DongInn Kim and Vafa Andalibi,
At a reception led by IU President Michael A. McRobbie, SPICE Professor L. Jean Camp was the first of five IU professors to be recognized for being made AAAS fellows in 2017. The reception was hosted on January 25th, 2018
As fabrication technologies permeate our offices and homes their use becomes as ubiquitous as paper scanning and printing technologies did before them. Laser cutters, 3D printers, and other makerspace technologies are now available to for home repairs, creative endeavors, and
SPICE had a visit from a renowned logistics and product specialist on Friday, December 8th. Speaking in Informatics East, the jingling master of toys and home products gave a funny, yet serious talk spilling the beans on just how he
When assessing job applications, research data show that recruiters and employers screen applicants based on age, class, personality, and other characteristics that may not be gleaned from a resume. In an ideal situation, one might imagine that employers hire the
SPICE is excited to report that it has been awarded a Comcast Innovation Grant for research in empowering customers in the use of Internet of Things (IoT) technology. A core part of SPICE’s research model is to use our unique
The internet’s newest hot browser has SPICE professor Steve Myers cryptography to thank for it’s amazing ICO this year. Raising $35 million in the first 30 seconds of it’s ICO opening, Brave is a fast browser that brings security and
SPICE is proud to announce that Professor L.Jean Camp has been named an IEEE Fellow effective as of January 1, 2018. She is being recognized for her research in human-centered risk and security.
SPICE is proud to announce that Professor L.Jean Camp has been named as an AAAS Fellow. This honor bestowed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science has been made in recognition of a lifetime of achievement in the
The services offered by mobile apps are useful but these apps can also be privacy invasive, meaning that in they compile and share more information than is needed for the task the app performs. For example, researchers
The term “insiders” is widely defined as current or former employees who accidentally or maliciously misuse their trusted access to harm an organization’s assets. According to multiple security reports, a considerable percentage of security professionals from multiple
Research, education, and outreach are a core mission of SPICE. As part of that continuing mission, Capstone teams are using smart toys in hacking workshops, and at job fairs as examples of the work we do.
On September 15 and 16, IU SICE co-hosted Indiana’s first ever Computer Science conference for K-8 teachers. Over two hundred teachers learned more about the Indiana K-8 Computer Science standards including assessment plans and
On July 26th SPICE co-sponsored the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. This workshop addresses the security and privacy implications of computer vision as it is integrated into the real world and
People have thought about innovative applications such as mining credit card transactions to identify fraud transaction, or querying databases of personal medical records for precision medical treatments. Obviously, combining data from several collaborative organizations generally improves the
The BGP protocol is the glue that sticks the Internet. Subnetworks called autonomous systems (ASes) use the BGP protocol to exchange reachability paths to groups of IP addresses that they own. By protocol design,
On 8/21/17 a contingent of CSI students, staff and faculty travelled to Hopkinsville, Kentucky to observe the full solar eclipse. Given the short drive to a location that offered the eclipse in totality, and the rareness of this as a
In September IU hosted leaders in private and public technology for a two day conference with the stated goal of sparking conversations on how research drives innovation. IU’s news release can be found here:
CSI Professor Ryan Henry was recently awarded two new research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study cryptographic techniques for protecting the privacy of Internet users.
Professor Henry is the sole Principal Investigator (PI) on the first grant,
Two weeks ago, at the 24th Annual Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2017) in Ottawa, University of Waterloo master’s student Bailey Kacsmar presented research conducted in collaboration with Brandon University Professor Sarah Plosker and CSI’s own Professor Ryan
In September IU hosted leaders in private and public technology for a two day conference with the stated goal of sparking conversations on how research drives innovation. IU’s news release can be found here:
In September IU hosted leaders in private and public technology for a two day conference with the stated goal of sparking conversations on how research drives innovation. IU’s news release can be found here:
Next week SoIC staff and students from both The Center for Security Informatics and Data Sciences will be attending Indianapolis’ Gencon 50 at the Indy Convention Center. Gencon is a four-day gaming convention. It is both the oldest and largest
Summer is typically a time when students head home to visit friends and family, go on a vacation, or in the case of some students at Indiana University they get introduced to conducting research for the first time. The Center
I arrived in the land of beaches, San Diego. The serene Pacific welcomed me with open arms on a bleary day. As I rested on the beach, my very first interaction with the Pacific, I
The Center for Security Informatics (CSI) is dedicated to research, education and outreach. Much of the work that is done on a day-to-day basis can lean very strongly to one of those three categories while having an effect on the
