📢 presenting "RS-Del: Edit Distance Robustness Certificates for Sequence Classifiers via Randomized Deletion" at NeurIPS Conference #NeurIPS2023 with Calvin Huang, Neil Marchant, Olga Ohrimenko of University of Melbourne, Keane, Lujo Bauer of Carnegie Mellon University 1/8

Do you work in security for industrial control systems? We want to hear from you! Help us design better anomaly detection systems by sharing your experience with us in a 1 hr remote interview. You'll get a $60 Amazon gift card on completion. Sign up here: forms.gle/jBjVfrsHQgLVZx…

Want to help cultivate rewarding partnerships in #cybersecurity, #privacy, and #blockchain research? CyLab is hiring an Assistant/Associate Director of Partnerships! Learn more and apply here: cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CMU/job/…

Did you know 98.6% of hospital websites share your data with third-party trackers? Penn LDI is competing in #STATMadness! In our entry, Senior Fellows Matthew McCoy, @AriBFriedman & Raina Merchant, MD MSHP FAHA found nearly all U.S. hospital websites share your health data. THREAD 🧵⬇️

Our paper "Group-based Robustness: A General Framework for Customized Robustness in the Real World" was presented at NDSS Symposium 2024. Thanks to the collaborators lucas Lujo Bauer Mahmood Sharif Mike Reiter paper: ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/upl… code: github.com/linweiran/GBR

.@CMU_Africa's Assane Gueye and Carnegie Mellon ECE's Giulia Fanti have been selected by the Follow @ODET_UN for the latest updates to be part of a working group for the United Nations #DPI Safeguards initiative. africa.engineering.cmu.edu/news/2024/03/1…

Congratulations to Assane Gueye and Giulia Fanti!

📢📢📢WSIW is back for the 10th(!) time📢📢📢 Submit your work on security & privacy professionals. We accept many formats, get feedback on your work and/or publicize your research! Last year was awesome, this year will be too! ~10 days left to submit: security-information-workers.github.io

We, Phani Vadrevu and I, are looking for (self)-nominations for USENIX Security '25 Artifact Evaluation Committee! 🚀 Please, help us spread the words! You can *Promote and Support Open Science* by filling out the nomination form by Friday, October 11: forms.gle/egpFNpoBviqVS1…

🎓 Thinking of grad school in CS? Join our Q&A with Bogdan Vasilescu, Oct 1, 10-11am ET! Learn about the Societal Computing PhD program & more. Open to all! Register: bit.ly/4eh2nZ7 #GradSchoolAdvice #ComputerScience"

Please consider volunteering to join the USENIX Security '25 artifact evaluation committee! Help us make sharing reusable research artifacts the norm rather than the exception.

Please consider sending your awesome computer security & privacy papers to USENIX Security '25! The cycle 2 deadline is Jan 22 AoE. Remember that writing about research ethics and open science (sharing datasets, code, scripts, etc.) is required! usenix.org/conference/use… Giancarlo Pellegrino

Interested in a postdoc at CMU in AI, cybersecurity, robotics, or sustainability? Consider applying for a Carnegie Bosch Fellowship by Jan 31! carnegiebosch.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University

New paper: Brian Singer and Anthropic Frontier Red Team member Keane investigated whether models can use tools to execute multistage attacks on networks. TLDR: yes Models will increasingly be used for security research.

Logan Graham Anthropic Keane Thank you for highlighting our work Logan Graham! Couldn't have done it without my amazing co-authors Meghna, Lakshmi, Keane, vyas sekar and Lujo Bauer. Looking forward for seeing all the ways that LLMs can disrupt security!

.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.

Great job, Anna and Eric! Anna presented our work demonstrating the inconsistency of LLM responses and how attackers might take advantage (doi.org/10.1145/370659…); and Eric investigating health-related tracking and deceptive ads (doi.org/10.1145/370659…) Matthew McCoy

.Carnegie Mellon University faculty members and students are preparing to share their research at next week’s USENIX Security Symposium in Seattle. Learn more about the CyLab co-authored papers that will be presented at #usesec25: cylab.cmu.edu/news/2025/08/0…