CICS News

Global News: Supply Chain Attacks and Critical Infrastructure: How CISA Helps Secure a Nation's Crown Jewels

Posted: 
Thursday, April 6, 2023

Supply Chain Attacks and Critical Infrastructure: How CISA Helps Secure a Nation's Crown Jewels

Critical infrastructure attacks are a preferred target for cyber criminals. Here's why and what's being done to protect them.

URL: https://thehackernews.com/2023/04/supply-chain-attacks-and-critical.html

Congratulations to CSE students winning the Spirit of Innovation Competition

Posted: 
Monday, March 27, 2023

Congratulations to our Ph.D. students in Network Security Lab for winning the Spirit of Innovation Competition. The competition was held in UT Dallas by the USICOC on the 24th of March.  

1st Prize went to Christopher Hickingbottom (Ph.D. student) on Zero-knowledge proofs for smart cities. He turned his Ph.D. work into an innovative product idea.

2nd Prize went to Ishan Ranasinghe Arachchilage (Ph.D. student) and Kapil Panda (TAMS) on Cyber Therapy. They turned the Ph.D. work into an innovative product idea.

Global News: Additional Supply Chain Vulnerabilities Uncovered in AMI MegaRAC BMC Software

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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Two more supply chain security flaws have been disclosed in AMI MegaRAC Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) software, nearly two months after three security vulnerabilities were brought to light in the same product.

Best research paper award: The Fourth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Application (BCCA)

Posted: 
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Congratulations to Syed Badruddoja, who is currently a PhD student in Network Security Lab. His co-authored paper (Syed Badruddoja, Ram Dantu, Yanyan He, Abiola Salau, Kritagya Upadhyay, and Mark Thompson, “Making Smart Contracts Predict and Scale”) has received the best research paper award at the Fourth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2022), September 4-6, 2022, San Antonio, Texas, USA. After all the presentations (40 accepted papers), the organizers announced the best paper award.

Tutorial at 2022 IEEE Secure Development Conference

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Monday, September 12, 2022

Lotfi ben Othmane from UNT faculty is giving a tutorial session during 2022 IEEE Secure Development (SecDev) Conference, which is ​a​ ​venue​ ​for​ ​presenting​ ​ideas,​ ​research,​ ​and​ ​experience​ ​about​ ​how​ ​to​ ​develop​ ​secure systems.

Top research paper award in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (research paper award for 2010-2019)

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Friday, May 13, 2022

Our team has received the top research paper award in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (research paper award for 2010-2019) spanning over a decade and among thousands of transaction papers: Mohamed Fazeen; Brandon Gozick; Ram Dantu; Moiz Bhukhiya; Marta C. González, “Safe Driving Using Mobile Phones,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 1462-1468, Sept. 2012. (Google Scholar Citations: 337)

Global News: From Ransomware to Cyber Espionage: 55 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Weaponized in 2022

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Monday, March 21, 2022

As many as 55 zero-day vulnerabilities were exploited in the wild in 2022, with most of the flaws discovered in software from Microsoft, Google, and Apple.

While this figure represents a decrease from the year before, when a staggering 81 zero-days were weaponized, it still represents a significant uptick in recent years of threat actors leveraging unknown security flaws to their advantage.

UNT and Siemens collaborate on Zero-Trust Architecture (ZTA) based Internet of Things (IoT) Compliance

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Friday, July 16, 2021

Assistant Prof. Cihan Tunc from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Siemens are working on Zero-Trust Architecture (ZTA) for the Internet of Things (IoT) Compliance. International Data Corporation (IDC) expects that by 2025, there will be 55.7 B connected devices worldwide and 75% of which will be connected to an IoT platform. This also introduces large amount of attack surface; hence, this project focuses on applying ZTA to IoT environment to make sure that we can enforce the required security controls.

UNT Cyber Security Club Placed 5th in Southwestern CCDC Regionals

Posted: 
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

https://web.archive.org/web/20190508191218/https://twitter.com/SWCCDC/status/1098407695609143296

https://www.facebook.com/untcse/posts/2332767906776121

CICS Professor Ram Dantu Featured in Dallas Innovates

Posted: 
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Dr. Ram Dantu, director of the UNT Center for Information and Cyber Security (CICS), was featured in a Dallas Innovates article on "26 North Texas Innovators Who Are The Future Today".

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