- April 09:
Professor Liu, as a Co-PI, is awarded a major grant from DTRA. The PI is
Prof. John Yen in College of IST.
- April 09: Penn
State is to be re-designated, by DHS and the National Security Agency,
as a "National Center of
Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education" (CAE-Education)
for academic years 2009-2014.
The PSU’s re-designation application is led by Professor
Liu. Prof. Squicciarini and
Prof. Chu are co-leaders of this application.
- Jan 09:
Professor Liu is to serve as the program co-chair of AsiaCCS 2010 (http://www.dacas.cn/asiaccs2010/),
which will be held in Beijing, China.
- Dec 08: A
paper written by Prof. Xu, N. Irani, Prof. Zhu, and W. Xu on Children's
Online Privacy has appeared on the premier information systems
conference: ICIS 2008.
- Dec 08:
Professor Liu has given a Keynote Speech on Inscrypt 2008, titled
“Privacy Preserving Information Brokering”.
- Oct 08:
Professor Liu is to serve as the general chair of Securecomm 2009.
- Sept 08:
Professor Squicciarini won a NSF Cyber-Trust Medium-Size Grant
“Securing Dynamic Online Social Networks” in collaboration
with UT San Antonio and ASU.
- June 08: Penn State is among the first
universities in the nation to be designated, by the National Security
Agency (NSA), as a "National Center of Academic Excellence in
Information Assurance Research" (CAE-Research) for
academic years 2008-2013.
Congratulations to the Cyber Security Lab members and all the
security researchers at Penn
State for their
great contributions to this designation.
- May 08:
Professor Liu has been selected as a Program Co-Chair of INSCRYPT 2008:
4th International Conference on Information Security and
Cryptology, which will be held in December 14-17 in Beijing, China.
- May 08:
Robert (Bo) Luo accepted a tenure-track assistant professor offer from University of Kansas.
- March 08:
Professor Liu has been selected as a Program Co-Chair of SecureComm
2008: 4th International Conference on Security and Privacy in
Communication Networks, which will be held in September 22-25 in Istanbul, Turkey
- Feb 08:
Professor Liu won an AFRL SBIR Phase II grant, led by IAI, Inc.
- Jan 08:
Professor Squicciarini joined the Cyber Security Lab.
- Nov 07:
Professor Liu has successfully co-organized the ARO Workshop on Cyber Situational Awareness at Fairfax, VA
in Nov 14-15.
- Sept 07:
Professor Xu won a NSF Cyber Trust grant on “Privacy Assurance in
Location-Based Services,” joint with Professor Rosson and
Professor Carroll.
- Sept 07:
Professor Liu won a collaborative NSF Cyber Trust grant together with George Mason
University and Western Illinois University. This project is on Dynamic Damage
Assessment and Recovery for
data processing systems.
- Aug 07:
The paper “Automaton Segmentation: A New Approach to Preserve
Privacy in XML Information Brokering” written by Cathy Li, Bo Luo, Peng Liu,
Dongwon Lee, and Chao-Hsien Chu was accepted at the 2007 ACM Conference on Computer and
Communications Security (CCS’07).
- June 07:
Professor Liu won an ARO STTR Phase II grant, led by IAI, Inc.
- Spring 07:
Professor Zhu won a NSF CAREER award titled “CAREER: Combating
Worm Propagation in Emergent Networks.”
- Mar 07:
Professor Liu won a 5-year MURI
grant, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, titled “Autonomic
Recovery of Enterprise-wide Systems after Attack or Failure with Forward
Correction”, joint with GMU and Columbia University. This project will take a
“health care” approach to do non-stop enterprise computing
in the face of cyber attacks.
- Spring 07:
Professor Xu was a runner up for the 2006
ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition.
- Feb 2007
(press coverage): The PWC (proactive worm containment)
technology developed by Professor Liu and his students was reported
about 80 times by both
national media (e.g., The Association Press, USA Today, Washington Post,
Fox News, BusinessWeek, Forbes, MSNBC, ABC Money, PC World) and
international media (e.g., Times Online), under such titles as
“Penn State Researchers ID Worms by Speed”.
- Dec 06: Liu and Zhu were awarded a grant from The
Technology Collaborative to develop signature-free techniques to filter
remote exploits.
- June 06:
The paper “SigFree: A Signature-free Buffer Overflow Attack
Blocker” written by X. Wang, C. Pan, P. Liu, and S. Zhu was
accepted at the 2006 USENIX
Security Symposium (SECURITY’06).
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