CyberSecurity

This month Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SPICE)’s Capture the Flag (CTF) team is preparing for multiple competitions, including Indiana's HackIN Hackathon, to be held on November 8-10, and the national CyberForce Competition on November
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SPICE Capture The Flag Team Gears Up for Fall Competitions

7 Nov, 2019 in CyberSecurity by jostre

For Immediate Release 10/25/19

Professor Jean Camp of the the Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SPICE) Center at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering has been awarded a Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program (DOD
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Professor Jean Camp Awarded Department of Defense Center of Academic ...

25 Oct, 2019 in CyberSecurity by jostre

by Pablo Moriano

The Internet, although extremely robust, is notoriously vulnerable to attack by means of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BGP exchange messages are assumed to be trustworthy. In other words, the reachability information shared between autonomous systems (ASes)
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Using Bursty Announcements for Detection of BGP Routing Anomalies

27 Sep, 2019 in CyberSecurity by jostre

For Immediate Release 9/18/19

The Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SPICE) Center at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering has been selected as the host for the Center for High Assurance Secure Systems and IoT (CHASSI), …

For Immediate Release 9/18/19

The Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SPICE) Center at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering has been selected as the host for the Center for High Assurance Secure Systems and IoT (CHASSI), …

SPICE Selected As Host for Center for High Assurance Secure ...

19 Sep, 2019 in CyberSecurity by jostre

By Yi Chen, former visiting Ph.D. student with the Security & Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SPICE) center.

A third-party payment service (aka. payment processor) such as PayPal is an Internet service that an e-commerce merchant integrates to handle
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SPICE Presents Research on Logic Flaws Caused by Popular Syndication ...

6 Sep, 2019 in CyberSecurity by jostre

8/30/2019

On Wednesday, August 28th, the Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing and Engineering group hosted its Annual Security Dinner. Each fall, this highly anticipated event celebrates the dedication and tireless efforts of faculty, students, staff, and researchers from the
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Students, Faculty, and Family Attend SPICE’s Annual Security Dinner

30 Aug, 2019 in CyberSecurity by jostre

By: Ken Bikoff

Aug 16, 2019

Tousif Ahmed, who earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering in 2018, was awarded the 2019 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award at the
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SICE grad Ahmed earns 2019 John Karat Usable Privacy and ...

18 Aug, 2019 in CyberSecurity by jostre

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