Cybersecurity

The team says their framework can scalably and semi-automatically monitor the use of filtering technologies for censorship at global scale.

The proposal provides a chip-level safeguard against sensitive data being transmitted after it’s accessed.

A Q&A with J. Alex Halderman, who co-founded the nonprofit organization.

The nation is using inexpensive commodity equipment to block 170K domains on more than 1K privately-owned ISPs.

The newly discovered microphone vulnerability allows attackers to remotely inject inaudible and invisible commands into voice assistants using light.

The researchers demonstrated that an adversary could remotely manipulate the temperature sensor measurements without tampering with the targeted system or triggering automatic temperature alarms.

Up to this point, no attacks had been discovered targeting a car’s LiDAR system—but a major new finding from researchers at the University of Michigan has demonstrated what that might look like.

The research suggests that common blacklist-based prevention systems are ineffective.

MORPHEUS can encrypt and reshuffle code thousands of times faster than human and electronic hackers.

The meeting began the commission’s review and assessment of election security in Michigan.

The effort seeks to protect the integrity of every vote.

In congressional testimony, professor urges $370M in federal funding to replace outdated machines.

A team of researchers unearthed new data on geographic denial of access to web content in a new paper.

A new special topics course on election cybersecurity gives students an examination of the past, present, and future of US elections.

“The work is an important step towards understanding how to make tradeoffs between usability and security.”

Patches can provide protection.

When it comes to their smartphones, immigrants struggle to apply instinctive caution, according to a study by a team of University of Michigan researchers.

A large quantum computer could retroactively decrypt almost all internet communication ever recorded.

U-M profs weigh new business model, European-style regulation

Professor Alex Halderman and the New York Times staged a mock election to demonstrate voting machine vulnerability.

The vulnerability allows an attacker to manipulate a new intelligent traffic control algorithm and cause severe traffic jams.

In this video, CSE PhD Student Matt Bernhard weighs in on the matter Facebook data harvesting, such as that done by Cambridge Analytica.

The researchers say they’re making an unsolvable puzzle: ‘It’s like if you’re solving a Rubik’s Cube and every time you blink, I rearrange it.’

Prof. Peikert and his co-author received the award at the Fifteenth Theory of Cryptography Conference for their paper on efficient collision-resistant hashing on cyclic lattices.

Their paper introduces a new programming language and tool called Vale that supports flexible, automated verification of high-performance assembly code.

Bugs that are not caught before a product is released can cost companies billions of dollars.

His remarks focused on vulnerabilities in the US voting system and a policy agenda for securing the system against the threat of hacking.

‘Open port’ backdoors are common.

Researchers have for the first time characterized a widespread vulnerability in the software that runs on mobile devices.

The USENIX Test of Time Awards recognizes papers presented at its respective conference from at least 10 years ago that have had a lasting impact on their fields.

DROWN allows attackers to break encryption used to protect HTTPS websites and read or steal sensitive communications.

In order to bring HTTPS to everyone, Prof. Halderman joined forces in 2012 with colleagues at Mozilla and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to found Let’s Encrypt, a non-profit certificate authority with the mission of making the switch to HTTPS vastly easier.

One of the paper describes and demonstrates a malicious hardware backdoor. The other demonstrated security failings in a commercial smart home platform.

New security ramifications exist when laptops and smartphones configured for enterprise systems are used outside the enterprise in the realm of the wider web.

New vulnerabilities form when hardware like electronic locks, thermostats, ovens, sprinklers, lights and motion sensors are networked and set up to be controlled remotely.

Healthcare security company Virta Laboratories, Inc. has received a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

Securing Internet voting requires solving some of the hardest problems in computer security, and even the smallest mistakes can undermine the integrity of the election result.