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#picoCTF2025 is better with friends. Tag your team, challenge your classmates, and level up your hacking skills together! 🏆💡 🔥 Compete solo or as a team 🚀 Solve challenges, earn points, climb the leaderboard 🕛March 7 @ Noon ET! 🔗 Register & play: picoctf.org

Representing St. Lawrence University Uganda in the on going picoCTF 2025 competitions.

A hub of expertise, Carnegie Mellon University's faculty are leading the charge in critical fields like cybersecurity and social change. Discover how CMIST's Audrey Kurth Cronin, Nadiya Kostyuk, and CyLab's Virginia Smith are making a difference. cmu.edu/news/stories/a… #CarnegieMellon #CMU

.CyLab researchers are set to present nine papers and teach one course at next month’s ACM CHI Conference #CHI2025 conference. The conference will take place in Yokohama, Japan from April 26th through May 1st. Learn more about the research that will be presented: cylab.cmu.edu/news/2025/03/1…

.Carnegie Mellon University's Secure #Blockchain Initiative (SBI) has announced its third round of funded proposals, providing $130K to six groundbreaking research projects that are exploring the #security and #privacy of distributed ledger technology. Learn more: cylab.cmu.edu/news/2025/03/2…

In a The Wall Street Journal article, Professor Lorrie Cranor (Lorrie Cranor), CyLab Director, chats with James Rundle about lessons that private sector companies can learn from the #Signal national-security scandal: wsj.com/articles/signa…

In a POLITICO article, Professor Lorrie Cranor (Lorrie Cranor), CyLab Director, shares insights with Maggie Miller on the #security requirements of communications systems approved for use by government officials. politico.com/news/2025/04/0…

Many thanks to Professor Yaoqing Yang (Yaoqing Yang) of Dartmouth CS for visiting campus today to share his research on weight matrix diagnostics for improved neural network training and compression as part of the CyLab Seminar Series.

In a Dark Reading article, Professor Lorrie Cranor (Lorrie Cranor), CyLab Director, explains why, regardless of encryption protections, Gmail user devices and accounts still need to be secured: darkreading.com/application-se…

Many thanks to Seth Neel (Seth Neel), Senior Research Scientist at Google AI, for visiting campus today to discuss his research on machine unlearning as part of the CyLab Seminar Series.

“I find it odd that Apple is fighting this without explaining their rationale.” In a The Washington Post article, Prof. Lorrie Cranor, CyLab Director, tells Chris Velazco that restoring Apple accounts for users whose iPhones have been stolen is solvable: washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Students from CMU Software and Societal Systems Department’s Privacy Engineering Program shared their research during today’s poster session at Carnegie Mellon University, highlighting implementations of different #privacy-enhancing technologies including differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, and federated learning.

CyLab wrote a great article on Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee's #chi2025 paper on Purpose Mode. He presented it today and did a great job! PurposeMode reduces distraction on social media from 28% -> 7%. You can use it, too! It's open source :) cylab.cmu.edu/news/2025/04/2…

.Carnegie Mellon ECE alum Anna Gerchanovsky (MS ‘24) and CyLab postdoctoral research alum Eric Zeng present #security and #privacy research at this week’s ACM CHI Conference #CHI2025 in Yokohama, Japan.

Congratulations to Professor Rohan Padhye (Rohan Padhye) and team on receiving Association for Computing Machinery ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award!

Professor Lorrie Cranor (Lorrie Cranor), CyLab Director, gives the keynote presentation at #Cyburgh2025, presented by PGH Tech Council & Fortyx80 and Ethical Intruder. In her keynote, Professor Cranor shared examples of usable #privacy and #security research. #PTCCyburgh #PittsburghTech #InfoSec

“I have trouble believing if this system will actually solve this problem.” Professor Lorrie Cranor (Lorrie Cranor), CyLab Director, speaks to Lisa Bonos of The Washington Post about the “World” biometric “proof of human” credential network: wapo.st/3GNME7Y

.CyLab faculty members and students will lead three presentations at next week’s USENIX Association Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (#PEPR25). Learn more about the research they will be presenting: cylab.cmu.edu/news/2025/05/2…

African organizations are partnering with educational institutions like picoCTF-Africa to teach students and young adults #cybersecurity skills in response to significant increases in cybercrime. Learn how via Dark Reading: darkreading.com/cybersecurity-…

A new framework developed at Carnegie Mellon University seeks to improve #privacy notices and choices, which could give users more autonomy over their digital footprint. Learn more about UsersFirst: cylab.cmu.edu/news/2025/06/1…