DARPA-SAIC Program Aims to Combat Insiders by Tracking Online Activity
A research project led by SAIC Inc. is working on a program for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that can detect suspicious online behavior before an insider creates chaos, according to a report from Defense Systems. The Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales program seeks to create, adapt and apply software that can track a [...]
Average Internet users who think online privacy tools adequately protect them have a problem according to Carnegie Mellon University researchers: the tools do not work all that well. In a 38-page report, the researchers determined the tools were more likely to confuse the average user and may in fact do the opposite of what the [...]
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Cybersecurity is moving away from being merely an IT solution to include the human factor in cybersecurity as humans can make or break a good security system. Social engineering attacks that convince users to click on links that download malware to computers are an easier method of gaining access to a network than more traditional [...]
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Researchers say that security questions on websites need to be replaced with harder more complex questions. A study, from the University of Cambridge, proved the ease of guessing answers to common questions. Another study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft proved that 17% of answers can be guessed by those that know the target. [...]
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Northrop Grumman has reached out to three major cyber research universities to help advance research and develop effective cybersecurity solutions. The three schools, Carnegie Mellon, Purdue University and MIT, were asked to join a Cybersecurity Research Consortium. The consortium is meant to leverage the collective capabilities and expertise of the various universities and industry in [...]
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