Breaking News: Cybersecurity

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S&T supports its wide range of research and development projects by providing researchers, businesses and organizations in the cybersecurity community multiple pathways to partnership.

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DHS S&T has awarded funding to four research and development (R&D) projects that will improve the threat detection capabilities of current X-ray technologies for passenger X-ray baggage systems.

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The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center are operationalizing the Integrated Adaptive Cyber Defense (IACD) framework, which will enable companies to improve the ability to quickly and broadly share information and prevent and respond to cyberattacks.

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With Black Friday and Cyber Monday approaching, professors at the Fox School of Business are available to discuss consumer affairs, retail analytics, and digital marketing practices.

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DHS S&T is initiating a series of Biometric Technology Rallies to support industry innovation and advance technologies that support DHS and Homeland Security Enterprise operations.

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Rural counties continue to rank lowest among counties across the U.S., in terms of health outcomes. A group of national organizations including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National 4-H Council are leading the way to close the rural health gap.

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UIC research highlighted in cyberlearning report

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Information security is a white-hot career. Find out how campuses across the CSU are preparing students to fill these in-demand jobs.

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Spanning two years, from March 2015 to February 2017, CAIDA researchers and collaborators found that about one-third of the IPv4 address space was subject to some kind of DoS attacks, where a perpetrator maliciously disrupts services of a host connected to the internet.

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Join us for a live Facebook Tech Talk on November 9 at 1 p.m. ET to learn about NPPD and S&T’s roles in securing our nation’s critical infrastructure and how we work to make it more resilient.

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NMSU receives NSF cyber infrastructure award to train local high school students.

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A new form of self-harm in youth has emerged and is cause for concern, warns a researcher and bullying expert from Florida Atlantic University. The behavior: “digital self-harm,” where teens post, send or share mean things about themselves anonymously online. The concern: it is happening at alarming rates and could be a cry for help.

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“Good, good, good, good vibrations” goes the catchy Beach Boys song, a big hit in 1966 and beyond. Now Rutgers engineers have created VibWrite, a smart access system that senses finger vibrations to verify users. The low-cost security system could eventually be used to gain access to homes, apartment buildings, cars, appliances – anything with a solid surface.

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Until now, assessing the extent and impact of network or computer system attacks has been largely a time-consuming manual process. A new software system being developed by cybersecurity researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology will largely automate that process, allowing investigators to quickly and accurately pinpoint how intruders entered the network, what data they took and which computer systems were compromised.

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To guard against unknowingly visiting malicious websites, computer users have been taught to double-check website URLs before they click on a link. But attackers are now taking advantage of that practice to trick users into visiting website domains that contain familiar trademarks — but with additional words that change the destination to an attack site.

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In the 15th episode of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law's Planet Lex podcast series, host Dean Daniel Rodriguez talks to bestselling author and lawyer Scott Turow about legal fiction, his career as a writer and lawyer and the nature of legal education. They also touch on Turow’s work to reform capital punishment and the legal complexities of being an author in the age of technology.

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The DHS S&T's National Conversation on Homeland Security Technology is focused on gathering stakeholder insights to identify flood risk and insurance information, along with tools to build more resilient communities.

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Iowa State University cybersecurity researchers recently presented two days of demonstrations and case studies to help four Black Sea countries fight off cyberattacks. One of the countries -- Ukraine -- was hit by a 2015 cyberattack that cut power to 230,000.

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New research by computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified numerous browser functionalities rarely used or needed by websites, but which pose substantial security and privacy risks to web surfers. Blocking website access to unnecessary browser functionality would help reduce these risks

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Queen’s Management School and the Chief Executives’ Club at Queen’s University Belfast recently hosted leading Cyber Security expert, Mr Ciaran Martin, Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).

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Computer science researchers at Baldwin Wallace University in Ohio have developed a novel solution to inform mobile device users about the hidden misuse of their personal data.

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On October 24 from 12 to 12:30 p.m. EDT, join DHS S&T on our Facebook page for a Facebook Tech Talk focused on cybersecurity for automobiles.

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As medicine becomes more data-intensive, Berkeley Lab & ESnet's Medical Science DMZ eyed as secure solution for transferring data

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With a $4.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, the University of Chicago’s Globus and leading cancer researchers at University of Chicago Medicine will build new protected cancer research networks that enable collaborations while keeping sensitive health data secure and private.

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DHS S&T awarded Amherst, Massachusetts-based BlueRISC, Inc. a $750,000 SBIR Phase II contract for the development of a state-of-the-art solution that system and network defenders can use to forecast and uncover malware attacks.

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.Stefan Savage, a renowned cybersecurity expert and professor of computer science at the University of California San Diego, has been awarded a fellowship by the MacArthur Foundation. Perhaps better known as the MacArthur “genius” award, the prestigious no-strings attached five-year fellowship awards a total of $625,000 to each recipient.

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DHS S&T partnered with two universities to develop training programs for individuals who will develop the next generation of TAD identification, prevention, and mitigation capabilities.

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DHS S&T announced a $749,928 SBIR award to Manassas, Virginia-based Progeny Systems Corporation for developing a secure, mobile application development environment and deployment process.

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DHS S&T has awarded NexiTech, Inc. of Woodland Park, Colorado, a $194,000 contract to harden the DHS S&T cyber-defenses of financial institutions.

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Explosives trace detection experts from industry, academia, and government laboratories will gather to discuss advances in trace detection technologies.

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A New Mexico State University professor is working with researchers from UCLA to integrate augmented reality into new wireless edge networks thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation and Intel Corporation. Satyajayant Misra, NMSU associate professor of computer science, will lead the team’s investigation of the security challenges.

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New York City-based Red Balloon Security, Inc. was awarded a $746,756 SBIR contract from the DHS S&T to develop an upgrade to its existing hybrid prediction system for embedded malware detection.

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A method developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory could protect connected and autonomous vehicles from possible network intrusion. A new ORNL technique makes ultrafast measurements using atomic force microscopy.

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Changzhi Li’s “cardiac password” project will examine using the wave of the heart motion as an added method of continuous authentication.

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The Mobilizing Innovation webpage provides a high-level overview of how specific S&T innovations are promoting progress in key DHS mission areas.

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A University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor has received $230,000 to help defend the United States against the use of social bots. Dr. Nitin Agarwal, Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy Endowed Chair of Information Science, received the grant to develop a socio-computational model for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to detect the online presence of social bots.

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The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been awarded a $6.1 million grant from the Office of Naval Research, a division of the United States Department of the Navy. The project is related to software security, manageability and performance. The new research project involves what are known as containers. While not a household word for average computer users, containers are increasingly popular in the tech world.

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As part of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) commitment to building cyber-resilient energy delivery systems, a new project led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will develop tools to detect and counter cyber attacks on the grid via solar panels.