IU Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

Luddy cutting-edge security research left a major impression at the recent 52nd Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy in Washington D.C.

Research conducted under the guidance of L Jean Camp, Professor of Informatics and Director of the Center for Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SPICE), was presented by Informatics student Phenzi Blasio and IU postdoctoral fellow Jacob Abbott.

Learn more: go.iu.edu/8rrI

Decades of difference-making research in systems security and privacy has earned Luddy professor XiaoFeng Wang the distinction of an Association for Computing Machinery Fellow. His work continues to generate world-wide benefits, and makes Luddy and IU a globally recognized hub for cybersecurity innovations. Congratulations Dr. Wang! Read the story: http://tinyurl.com/36yktnxx

Luddy School professors Alessandro Flammini, XiaoFeng Wang, and Fil Menczer have made AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar’s 2023 list as among the world's top Artificial Intelligence researchers.

Learn more about their accomplishments: https://bit.ly/42Nhowr

Summer Spotlight! Meet Ece Gumusel, a Ph.D. student in information science, who spent her summer as a privacy analyst and engineer grad intern at MITRE, where she collaborated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence to improve NIST Privacy Framework.

Her favorite part? Working with government sponsors to analyze the upcoming federal privacy law (the American Data Privacy Protection Law). As the only privacy intern, she was able to show the difference between privacy and security.

Xing, Liao earn Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Research Award from Facebook Luyi Xing and Xiaojing Liao, both assistant professors of computer science at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, have been granted a Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Research Award from Facebook.

Luddy team takes home second place in HackIN 2021 competition A team of students from the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering earned second-place honors during HackIN 2021, a two-day, capture-the-flag hackathon in Carmel, Indiana, Oct. 9-10.

Could Apple's child safety feature backfire? New research shows warnings can increase risky sharing Studies about warning labels aimed at protecting privacy raise red flags about Apple’s efforts to keep kids from sharing sexually explicit material.

Luddy professor Sameer Patil’s work in social media misinformation is in NiemanLab news. Part of an international group of researchers, Patil's work shows the effect that engagement numbers has on increased sharing and decreased fact checking. Read more:

Lots of visible likes and shares on social lead people to spread more misinformation When people saw that a questionable piece of content had been liked and shared lots of times, they were more likely to share it themselves

Today graduate researcher Vafa Andalibi gives his Black Hat 2020 presentation on using MUD-Visualizer to protect IoT devices and networks by isolating IoT device before they can cause damage or be misused. See his talk at 4:00pm EST!

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