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Three New YouTube & iTunes Videos Showcase CyLab Seminar Series
/news_events/news/2012/new-videos-showcase-seminar-series.htmlEvery week, during the academic year, the CyLab Seminar Series provides updates on the latest research by our faculty, as well as by visiting scholars from other prestigious institutions.
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CyLab’s New Smartphone app, SafeSlinger Empowers Users’ to Strengthen Their Own Security and Privacy
/news_events/news/2012/cylabs-new-smartphone-app-safeslinger.htmlCyLab researchers have developed and released a new smartphone app to provide users with a free and easy to use means for secure messaging and file transfer.
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CyLab Research, Again, Has Big Impact on IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy
/news_events/news/2012/ieee-symposium-security-privacy.htmlThe 33rd annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy will be held from May 20th to May 23rd, 2012, in San Francisco. Seven papers authored or co-authored by CyLab researchers will be presented in the course of the three-day program ...
Lightning In A Bottle? A Brief Tour Of CyLab Online
posted by Richard Power
Indeed, CyLab is an audacious undertaking; and doing justice to such audacity has been quite a challenge. How do you sustain a narrative that is so complex? How do you communicate the prevailing spirit of the overall program, while at the same time documenting the painstaking progress of individual researchers?
Mike Farb Offers Insights Into SafeSlinger, CyLab's Powerful New Smartphone App
posted by Richard Power
"We want to provide secure operations even with careless users and powerful local adversaries who can monitor our messages and potentially alter our messages."
Anthony Rowe on Wireless Sensor Networks for Building Energy Management
posted by Richard Power
"Imagine having sensors all over the environment, telling you where the energy is going and what devices are using it. We can look for anomalies in the system. We can look at patterns over time."
“We're not sure how many actual individuals are behind those [online] pharmacies, but advertisers and pharmacies seem to be two distinct entities; and given that there are not that many large advertisers, it may make sense to try to take them down, and stop the flow of traffic to online pharmacies, rather than going after the pharmacy operators themselves.”
CyLab's Strong Presence at IEEE Security and Privacy 2012 Packs A Wallop
posted by Richard Power
“We introduced a new, efficient technique for evaluating password strength, which can be implemented for a variety of password-guessing algorithms and tuned using a variety of training sets to gain insight into the comparative guess resistance of different sets of passwords.”
Michael Farb - SafeSlinger: Applied Ad-hoc Smartphone Trust Establishment
Jonathan McCune - Verifying the Integrity of Peripherals' Firmware
Pei Zhang - SensorFly and Beyond: Flying Sensing Systems in the Wild
Anthony Rowe - Wireless Sensor Networks for Building Energy Management
Norman Sadeh - Can Social Networking and Privacy be Reconciled?
Nicolas Christin - Analyzing Search-Engine Manipulation Campaigns
Lorrie Cranor - 15 Years of Privacy Notice and Choice
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August 25, 2012 The day is coming when businesses and others will have those kinds of capabilities, said Alessandro Acquisti, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon CyLab who studies the positive and negative implications of facial recognition technology. “Your phone — or in some years, your glasses, and in a few more, your contact lenses — will tell you the name of that person at the party whose name you always forget,” Acquisti said. “Or it will tell the stalker in the bar the address where you live.”
Study estimates $2 million a month in Bitcoin drug sales
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August 7, 2012 Silk Road buyers are required to provide feedback on their purchases, and these reports are publicly available. This gave Carnegie Mellon CyLab researcher Nicolas Christin a handy way to track the volume of activity on the site. He reports that the volume of transactions on the site increased "from approximately 8,000 BTC/day to approximately 15,000 BTC/day, before seemingly retreating down to 11,000 BTC/day. The latter decrease is, however, an artifact of the Bitcoin sharply appreciating against all major currencies, rather than an indication of a drop in sales."
Black Market Drug Site 'Silk Road' Booming: $22 Million In Annual Sales
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August 6, 2012 Carnegie Mellon CyLab researcher Nicholas Christin cautions that his study only looks at a six month period of Silk Road’s sales, and that a big part of the site’s measured success comes from appreciation in the highly volatile Bitcoin currency Silk Road trades in, which has itself increased close to 70% in value over the course of Christin’s study. But even accounting for changes in that crypto currency, the site’s numbers point to very real growth. “It’s very bursty and spikey, but overall the numbers are moving up,” says Christin. “It’s a stable marketplace, and overall it’s growing steadily.”
October 2, 2012: Conference Carnegie Mellon CyLab Partners Conference The CyLab Partners Conference is an annual gathering of CyLab's corporate partners to meet with CyLab researchers and review their current projects. To learn more about attending the conference or becoming a partner, contact CyLab Distinguished Fellow, Richard Power at rpower@andrew.cmu.edu or 412-268-1870.
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