December 01, 2024
CensorLab is a censorship emulation platform that allows developers to test various censorship strategies against their own censorship circumvention tools. By proactively attempting to censor their own protocols, censorship circumvention developers... more
November 25, 2024
Eugene Bagdasarian, assistant professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at UMass Amherst, has been awarded a Distinguished Paper Award at the 2024 USENIX Security Symposium.
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November 18, 2024
On October 25th, over thirty Manning CICS graduate students attended the second annual Cybersecurity Institute Hackathon with alumni, faculty, and cybersecurity industry professionals from the Massachusetts-based nonprofit MITRE with the goal of... more
November 12, 2024
The UMass Cybersecurity Club's Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) team won first place in the New England Regional competition beating seven highly competitive teams including Northeastern, West Point, and Rutgers and advancing to the... more
October 05, 2024
Professor Amir Houmansadr at UMass Amherst talks with Nichole Davis at WBZ NewsRadio 1030 about how you can protect yourself against online scammers.
October 01, 2024
Amir Houmansadr, Ali Naseh, Katherine Thai, Mohit Iyyer had their
September 11, 2024
The Scholarship for Service (SFS) Program funds the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. UMass Amherst provides scholarships to students whose computer science, electrical and computer engineering, or math degrees are focused on... more
September 10, 2024
Applications for starting a Fall 2024 or Spring 2025 internship are currently open.
Applications received by 9/18/2024 will get priority consideration.
August 16, 2024
D. Dachman-Soled, J. Loss, and Adam O'Neill published a paper at the 2024 ITC Conference.
Breaking RSA is Generically Equivalent to Factoring, with Preprocessing
ITC 2024
July 08, 2024
Congratulations to Professor and director of the UMass Cybersecurity Institute Brian Levine, who was appointed Distinguished Professor following approval by the UMass Board of Trustees for his contributions to research, leadership, teaching, and... more
