Tag: cybersecurity

The Kernel Sanders Capture the Flag (CTF) team, part of the UF Student InfoSec Team (UF-SIT), was 1 of 10 groups that recently qualified for a CTF competition at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. This is the first time the UF team has qualified for the event in eight years. The team […]

The University of Florida has been re-designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research (CAE-R) through academic year 2024. This designation puts UF in an elite group of universities that meet the federal government’s criteria for providing educational and research opportunities in cybersecurity. UF has held this distinction since first receiving […]

Jasmine Bowers, Tiffanie Smith and Sanethia Thomas, all Ph.D. students in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, received the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) North Florida & Southeast Georgia Affiliate Award for Aspirations in Computing. The NCWIT Aspirations in Computing (AiC) Collegiate Award was designed to honor technical accomplishments […]

Arnold and Lisa Goldberg want to play their part in educating the New Engineer. They know that by investing in the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), students will have the tools, leadership skills and confidence to succeed in computer science. The Goldberg’s $1 million gift establishes the Arnold […]

Kevin Butler and his team at the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research help companies stymie hackers’ use of ghost commands.

A team of University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) researchers won the Distinguished Paper Award at the 27th USENIX Security Symposium. Nolen Scaife, a doctoral researcher; Christian Peeters, a Ph.D. student; and Patrick Traynor, The John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering and professor, presented the paper, […]

Credit card skimmers – electronic devices criminals stick on ATMs and gas pumps to secretly suck up your sensitive financial information – may have finally met their match. University of Florida researchers have teamed up with the New York City Police Department’s Financial Crimes Task Force to deploy the “Skim Reaper,” a device that instantly […]

After their performances in February qualified them to compete in the Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (SECCDC) regional competition – their third time in three years – the University of Florida Student InfoSec Team (UF SIT) came home with a second place trophy. The competition took place in Kennesaw, Ga., on April 2 – 3. Joseph N. Wilson, Ph.D. the […]

For the third time in three years, the University of Florida Student InfoSec Team (UF SIT) has been 1 of 7 teams whose high performance has qualified them to compete in the regional Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (SECCDC). The competition – in which a group of students must defend a computer network from persistent attacks from hacking experts […]

Several students from the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) won the poster competition for their respective categories on March 8 during the second day of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity (FICS) Research conference. The conference, the FICS Research Conference on Cybersecurity, was held over two days at Emerson Alumni Hall on […]