CyberSecurity

On May 29th, Indiana University's Security & Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SPICE) center hosted Dr. Zhiqiang Lin, as a SPICE Colloquium speaker. Delivering his talk entitled Uncovering Server Side Vulnerabilities via Automated Mobile App Analysis, Lin
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SPICE Speaker Zhiqiang Lin Presents on Discovering Server Side Vulnerabilities ...

24 May, 2019 in CyberSecurity by jostre

On April 12th, Indiana University's Security & Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SPICE) center hosted Kimber Dowsett from Truss and NASA, as a SPICE Colloquium speaker. In her talk entitled Vulnerability Disclosure Programs: Hack Responsibly, Dowsett helped
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SPICE Speaker Kimber Dowsett Presents on Vulnerability Disclosure Policies and ...

29 Apr, 2019 in CyberSecurity by jostre

A paper by SPICE researchers received an Honorable Mention award, featuring it among the Best of CHI at CHI 2019: the premier annual conference in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) being held this year in Glasgow, UK from May 4-9. The
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SPICE Research Featured among the Best of CHI 2019 with ...

19 Apr, 2019 in CyberSecurity by jostre

By: Ken Bikoff (reposted from SICE NEWS with permission of the author)

Mar. 18, 2019

Sameer Patil

Sameer Patil, an assistant professor at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s (NSF)
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By: Ken Bikoff (reposted from SICE NEWS with permission of the author)

Mar. 18, 2019

Sameer Patil

Sameer Patil, an assistant professor at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s (NSF)
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Patil awarded NSF CAREER grant to improve the user experience ...

21 Mar, 2019 in CyberSecurity by jostre

Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SPICE), at Indiana University, hosts a Hackathon for students in partnership with the Cyber Security Club and the IoT House. The Hackathon was a two-night event held March 5th and 7th. Fifteen
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Students Experience Spring Hackathon Nights at Luddy Hall & IU’s ...

9 Mar, 2019 in CyberSecurity by jostre

On February 27th, Indiana University's Security & Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SPICE) center hosted Ph.D. Candidate Camille Cobb as a SPICE Colloquium speaker. Delivering her talk entitled Peer-to-Peer Privacy in Social and Communications Applications, Cobb presented
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SPICE Speaker Camille Cobb Presents on Peer-to-Peer Privacy in Social ...

28 Feb, 2019 in CyberSecurity by jostre

The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2019 (HICSS) took place form January 8-11, 2019 in Grand Wailea on the island of Maui. HICSS is a multidisciplinary conference that covers a wide array of topics including software engineering, social media,
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Research on Modeling Human Resilience in Cyber Attacks Presented at ...

1 Feb, 2019 in CyberSecurity by jaeabbot

Jan 18, 2019. Nashville, Indiana.

A room full of 7th and 8th graders filled the Brown County Jr. High cafeteria for a presentation on Cybersecurity Careers and Internet of Things (IoT) safety. With various IoT devices spread through the audience,
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Brown County Students Learn about Cybersecurity Careers and IoT Safety

25 Jan, 2019 in CyberSecurity by jostre

On January 20th, Indiana University's Security & Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SPICE) center hosted Ph.D. candidate Yao Li, from the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine as a SPICE Colloquium speaker. Delivering
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SPICE Speaker Yao Li Presents On Cultural & Social Context ...

23 Jan, 2019 in CyberSecurity by jostre

On December 5th, Indiana University's Security & Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SPICE) center hosted Assistant Professor Laura Brandimarte as a SPICE Colloquium speaker. Her talk was entitled Does Government Surveillance Give Twitter the Chills? Brandimarte’s research focuses
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SPICE Speaker Laura Brandimarte Presents On Government Surveillance Impacts On ...

12 Dec, 2018 in CyberSecurity by jostre

On 11/30 Team SPICE attended a multi-day, national Capture the Flag (CTF) competition at Argonne Lab. The CyberForce Competition is sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) and, along with other locations, hosted 79 teams. As a practical implementation of
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Team SPICE Competes At DOE Cyberforce Competition

5 Dec, 2018 in CyberSecurity by jostre

Written by Ken Birkoff and originally posted in SICE News

XiaoFeng Wang, a James H. Rudy professor of computer science at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, has been named an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Wang Named IEEE Fellow

4 Dec, 2018 in CyberSecurity by jostre

Many people used the weekend of November 3rd and 4th to roll back the clock to get an extra hour of sleep as Daylight Savings Time ended, but a group of students made up of representatives from IU’s Security &
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Gaming For Funds: SPICE & inGame Participate in Extra Life ...

9 Nov, 2018 in CyberSecurity by jaeabbot

Professor Jean Camp of Indiana University's Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing and Engineering (SPICE), and Zheng Dong of Microsoft Research (formerly of Indiana University; Dong received his Ph.D. in Security Informatics in 2015) were approved for a patent on
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SPICE Professor Jean Camp Awarded Patent for Certificate Identification

2 Nov, 2018 in CyberSecurity by lcallowa

On October 31st, Emilee Rader, Associate Professor and AT&T Scholar from the Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University, gave a talk on the Implications of Beliefs about Derived Personal Data for Negotiating Digital Privacy Norms. During
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SPICE Speaker Professor Emilee Rader Presents On The Implications of ...

2 Nov, 2018 in CyberSecurity by lcallowa

As part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Security & Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SPICE) took part in recruiting at the 2nd annual Cybersecurity Career Fair on October 4th. The fair was held at Indiana Government Center South. Forty companies
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SPICE Recruits at 2nd Annual Cybersecurity Career Fair

23 Oct, 2018 in CyberSecurity by lcallowa

The highest number of active WhatsApp users in Southeast Asia exists in India and consists of approximately 200 million active users. Yet, despite this large user base, user perceptions of privacy settings were under researched within this population.

Research in
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SPICE Colleagues Present WhatsApp Privacy Paper at HAISA

16 Oct, 2018 in CyberSecurity by lcallowa

Although essential to modern society, anonymity is increasingly hard to achieve due to the proliferation of data collection and surveillance of everyday life. Without anonymity, citizens cannot have a reasonable expectation of privacy or freedom of expression without reproach.

Today,
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SPICE Professor Sameer Patil’s paper on Tor UX accepted at ...

9 Oct, 2018 in CyberSecurity by lcallowa

On September 21st and 22nd, K-12 teachers from across the state gathered at the University of Indiana for the second annual “Flipping the Switch” Educators Conference. This conference had a strong focus on cybersecurity education due to Indiana Department
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SPICE presents workshops on Cybersecurity & Capture the Flag at ...

28 Sep, 2018 in CyberSecurity by lcallowa

Kouper, Patil part of $4.9 million NSF grant to establish ResearchSOC

2018-09-21 Reposted with permission of SICE authors

Researchers from the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering are playing vital roles in the establishment of the Research Security Operations Center
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SPICE Professor Patil part of NSF grant to establish ResearchSOC

26 Sep, 2018 in CyberSecurity by jostre

By Apu Kapadia and reprinted with permission of the author.

NSF $500K Award to Study “Socio-Technical Strategies for Enhancing Privacy in Photo Sharing”

With the rise of digital photography and social networking, people are capturing and sharing photos on social
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SPICE Professor Kapadia Awarded NSF Grant to Study Enhancing Privacy ...

14 Sep, 2018 in CyberSecurity by jostre

By Apu Kapadia and reprinted with permission of the author.

NSF $450K (IU: $160K) Award to Study “Tangible Privacy: User-Centric Sensor Designs for Assured Privacy”

High-fidelity, and often privacy-invasive, sensors are now becoming pervasive in our everyday environments. At home,
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SPICE Professor Kapadia Awarded NSF Grant in Tangible Privacy

12 Sep, 2018 in CyberSecurity by jostre

The School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering welcomed two new professors for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Xiaojing Liao

Xiaojing Liao joins the faculty as an assistant professor of computer science from the College of William and Mary where she
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SPICE Welcomes New Professors Liao and Xing

6 Sep, 2018 in CyberSecurity by lcallowa

Ph.D. student Jayati Dev presented a poster, Understanding Privacy Concerns of WhatsApp Users in India at Hot Topics in the Science of Security [HoTSoS] April 10th-11th, 2018. The HoTSoS symposium brings together practitioners and researchers from academia, government, and industry
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SPICE Presents Research at Hot Topics in the Science of ...

14 Aug, 2018 in CyberSecurity by lcallowa

Las Vegas, 2018:

PhD student Sanchari Das and Professor L. Jean Camp presented a technical briefing at Black Hat 2018 this year. Their research on Yubico security keys, done in partnership with PhD's Gianpaolo Russo and Andrew Dingman, has improved
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SPICE Team Presents Two Part Authentication Research at Black Hat ...

10 Aug, 2018 in CyberSecurity by jostre

This week staff and students from both Security & Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering center and Pro Health attended Indianapolis' Gencon 51 at the Indy Convention Center. Gencon is a four-day gaming convention. It is both the oldest and
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SPICE at Gencon 2018

3 Aug, 2018 in CyberSecurity by jostre

As the summer drew to a close, three Research Experience Undergraduate (REU) students proudly demonstrated the work they did at IU's Internet of Things (IoT) House for the Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SPICE) center at the
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SPICE REU Students End Summer Research with Poster Presentations

27 Jul, 2018 in CyberSecurity by jostre

The School of Informatics Computing and Engineering (SICE) at Indiana University hosted an event to showcase SICE's educational opportunities and offerings to teachers in the Pathfinders program. Visiting educators took the opportunity to explore Luddy Hall's new facilities
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SPICE Participates in Luddy Hall Pathfinder Educators’ Open House

20 Jul, 2018 in CyberSecurity by jostre

The Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SPICE) group attended, gave talks, and presented research at the Midwest Security Workshop 2018. Hosted by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Midwest Security Workshop has the “goal of
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SPICE attends Midwest Security Workshop 2018 with Keynote, Panel, and ...

13 Jul, 2018 in CyberSecurity by jostre

Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering [SPICE] graduate researchers Kaushik Srinivasan, DongInn Kim, Jonathan Schubauer, Omkar Bhide, Shaktidhar Gopavaram, and David Argast attended the 2018 PrivacyCon conference and presented their research this year. Hosted by the FTC in
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Spice Researchers Present at FTC’s PrivacyCon 2018

7 Jul, 2018 in CyberSecurity by jostre