The MC2 papers at IEEE S&P cover timely topics that have important real-world implications for improving security and privacy in a wide range of contexts.
Jonathan Katz, Dana Dachman-Soled and Gorjan Alagic are developing a framework for cryptographic systems that can weather increasingly powerful quantum computers.
It will support Maryland Cybersecurity Center students and postdocs traveling to academic conferences, workshops or other research events focused on cybersecurity or privacy.
Two of the six papers received honorable mention awards at the annual conference, which brings together information security researchers, practitioners, developers and users from around the world.
Michelle Mazurek is part of a multi-institutional team looking to better understand how consumers’ personal information is used to generate online targeted ads.
A new paper by researchers from the Maryland Cybersecurity Center and Google presents the first comprehensive framework that can be used to reason about at-risk users’ needs during the technology creation process.
The topics covered by the MC2 researchers involve security education, online protection for at-risk users, and "blocklisting"—a computer security protocol that lists items in a set that may require quarantine, exclusion or additional security scans.
