Congratulations to George Hughey, the CyberPatriot XV Mentor of the Year!

Are you a UX developer? Do you want to work on something that *actually* makes the world a Better Place? Look no further than working with the wonderful OTF to help oppressed people around the world more freely communicate.

The UMD security group is hiring a postdoc. Want to work in applied cryptography and zk proofs with me or Gabe Kaptchuk? Or usable security, ai security, network security, pq crypto, or programing languages + security. Come to UMD and live in Washington, DC. obj.umiacs.umd.edu/cybersecurity/…

Congrats to the 9 U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship recipients from CMNS this year! Recipients include #ScienceTerp graduate students and alums from UMD Atmos&Ocean Sci, UMD Biophysics & Chemical Physics Programs, UMD Biological Sciences, UMD Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UMD Department of Computer Science, UMD Entomology and UMD Math Department. go.umd.edu/nsf-grfp-24 | #NSFGRFP

Congrats to Sadia Nourin for receiving one of only six NSF GRFPs in the field of cybersecurity! It's been a pleasure working with Sadia, and I'm excited to see what's in store for her in the PhD years to come!

The @ACM_IMC_2024 Internet Measurement Conference site is now open for submissions! Register by May 8th (aoe) and submit by May 15th. This is the largest IMC program committee to date; put us to work! imc2024.hotcrp.com

Do you ever get a blockpage from a country that neither you nor your destination's server are in? If so, DM me!

Researcher Erik Rye spoke at Black Hat then joined us for Ep. 27 of #PacketProtector 🎙️to dive into how Apple's WiFi Positioning (WPS) allowed them to track individuals, war in Gaza, and troop mvmt in Ukraine. With Dave Levin UMD Department of Computer Science @Drew_CM packetpushers.net/podcasts/packe…

On Cloudflare Radar, you can now track various forms of traffic tampering around the world! This is the result of our collaboration between Univ. of Maryland and Cloudflare to develop passive ways of detecting when third parties tamper with user traffic. Stay tuned for a blog post!

Pictured here is Steven Su, a rising senior *undergraduate*, presenting his first-author paper at PETS! The paper presents a clever attack allowing one to track the locations of WiFi access points sold on eBay, Facebook Marketplace, etc. He's applying to PhD programs this year.

Dear shadow PC members: if you accepted a paper that the TPC rejected, don't feel like you were wrong. You got something out of the paper and chose to fight for it. Keep that fight in you. Amplify the good you find.

Time to un-embargo our ACM CCS 2025 paper. We discovered that GEO satellites have been broadcasting a whole host of different kinds of traffic in the clear, including SMS and unencrypted calls from cellphones, military data, critical infrastructure, and more. wired.com/story/satellit…

I really dislike that USENIX Security doesn't have major revisions anymore.