News & Highlights
TRUST researcher Deirde Mulligan receives IAPP Privacy Leadership Award
April 21, 2016TRUST researcher Deirdre Mulligan has been awarded the prestigious ... Read More...
Former TRUST REU Student Wins Silver Award in ACM Research Competition for Undergrads
November 25, 2015Luther Martin, a NERSC Student Assistant via the UC Berkeley TRUST-REU program, won ... Read More...
Former TRUST REU Student to Participate in FTC conference on Privacy and Technology
November 24, 2015Ibrahim Altaweel, a participant in the TRUST Center's 2014REU program, has been selected to present research ... Read More...
Stanford to Offer Course in CryptoCurrency
August 25, 2015As part of its new graduate certificate program in cybersecurity, Stanford University is ... Read More...
Summer Camp for Cybersecurity
August 25, 2015High school students in the San Francisco Bay Area had a special opportunity to learn more about cybersecurity this summer, thanks to CYBEAR, a summer ... Read More...
TRUST Researcher Dan Boneh to Receive 2014 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award
March 31, 2015The Association ... Read More...
Have You Read Your Privacy Policy?
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San Jose State Designated Cyber Security Center of Excellence
December 4, 2014TRUST Center partner institution San Jose State University was recently designated a National Center of Academic ... Read More...
Best Paper Award for TRUST Medical Informatics Research
November 25, 2014The work of TRUST researchers at Vanderbilt University and their colleagues was recognized at the American Medical ... Read More...
Password Managers Pose Security Risk
September 24, 2014Password managers may not be as effective as you think. While these tools provide convenience and (ostensibly) peace of mind, a recently released report ... Read More...
Privacy Can Be Good for Business
July 16, 2014These days, most consumers are not surprised to learn that their online browsing habits or personal cell phone usage are mined by companies for targeted marketing practices. However, as TRUST researcher ... Read More...
Is the Internet Our Friend?
April 15, 2014Just how safe is the Internet? TRUST researcher Nicolas Christin was one of the participants who explored this question in a debate ... Read More...
Few clues found in collapse of Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange
March 14, 2014Despite online sleuthing and crowdsourcing, it is unlikely that those who suffered losses when bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox was hacked will be able to trace the path of their investments, comments ... Read More...
SJSU Establishes Center for Cyber Security and Big Data Studies
December 17, 2013TRUST partner institution San Jose State announced the establishment of a new Center for Cyber Security ... Read More...
Studying Wiretaps to Big Data - Cornell moves into the MOOC world
November 14, 2013TRUST researcher Prof. Steve Wicker of Cornell University will be teaching one of Cornell's first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) beginning ... Read More...
Online Hackers Beware: GOTCHA!
October 17, 2013Worried about the robustness of the ubiquitous CAPTCHA in preventing online attacks? TRUST researchers Jeremiah ... Read More...
"Fingerprinting" of Mobile Devices
October 17, 2013A team led by TRUST researcher and Stanford computer science Professor Dan Boneh has identified ... Read More...
Online privacy concerns growing
October 3, 2013There's a privacy arms race under way online, a continuing struggle among consumers, Internet companies, advocates and policymakers to assert greater control over personal data. Following recent NSA ... Read More...
Your Digital Trail: Private Company Access
October 2, 2013As the second story in a four-part series examining one's digital trail and who potentially has access to it, NPR broadcast ... Read More...
Researchers explore underground market of Twitter spam and abuse
October 2, 2013Data presented at the 22nd USENIX Security Symposium by researchers at ICSI (International Computer Science Institute)from a project exploring the underground market of spam and abuse on Twitter. Vern ... Read More...
Wiretap Extension Will Help Crooks & Terrorists
October 2, 2013By extending the existing US wiretap laws to give federal agencies easier backdoor access to Internet Communications, the country's enemies and cyberthieves also receive aid and technical assistance for ... Read More...
2013 Summer Program Applications Now Open
December 17, 2012The TRUST REU is a nine-week summer residential program that offers rising juniors and seniors in computer science or electrical engineering programs the opportunity to conduct research in Cybersecurity, ... Read More...
NSF Awards $10 Million Grant to ICSI and Collaborators to Study Human Element of Cybercrime
September 26, 2012The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), along with the University of California, San Diego and George Mason University have received $10 million in a 5-year grant from the National ... Read More...
Johannes Gerke of Cornell University wins IEEE Award
June 12, 2012Johannes Gerke, computer science professor at Cornell University, is one of 14 prominent technologists to be honored at the IEEE Computer Society's annual awards dinner in Seattle. Professor Gerke ... Read More...
How Al Qaeda Hid Secrets in a Video
May 3, 2012A May 1, 2012 Discovery News article, "How Al Qaeda Hid Secrets In a Porn Video" discusses using steganography ... Read More...