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March 04, 2021
Brian Levine has been named as an ACM Fellow of the class of 2020: "For contributions to network forensics, security, and privacy, and for thwarting crimes against children"
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February 03, 2021
Marvin Cable, an instructor for the INFOSEC certificate program was recently the featured lecturer in the CICS Office of Diversity & Inclusion newsletter.  This article was written by Anna Dao.  
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August 27, 2020
Since February 2020, Brian Levine has been serving as a member of the European Commission's group on "Technical Solutions to Detect Child Sexual Abuse in End-to-end Encrypted Communications." 
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August 27, 2020
Brian Levine was quoted in a recent Boston Globe Magazine cover story by Linda Matchan about survivor Sarah Cooper.
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April 08, 2020
 On Monday, April 6th, Professor and Director of Cybersecurity Institute Brian Levine joined Arun Rath of WGBH on the air to discuss security and tips for videoconferencing. They addressed child safety, industrial espionage, "Zoom bombing," and how... more
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March 11, 2020
The UMass team is current competing in the 2020 embedded Capture The Flag competition that is organized by MITRE. Contact Prof. Wayne Burleson for information.
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March 11, 2020
Hack@DAC, co-organized by Dan Holcomb, is an annual competition in which teams compete to find security vulnerabilities in bug-infested SoCs. Last year's competition had over 40 teams in the preliminary round and 12 in the final round. More... more
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February 28, 2020
Congratulations to CICS Senior Software Engineer Brian Lynn on receiving the Outstanding Staff Award! Lynn was honored for his work developing tools to assist law enforcement in combating the exploitation of children. The tools are used nationwide,... more
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February 03, 2020
CICS welcomed George Bissias as a Research Assistant Professor
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January 25, 2020
In the spring 2020, four MITRE Corp. experts will be teaching a new 500-level course, COMPSCI 590J Cyber Effects: Reverse Engineering, Exploit Analysis, and Capability Development.  This course that will cover topics related to cyber security and... more

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