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GTISC PhD Student Quoted in Wall Street Journal

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:30:18 -0400

GTISC PhD Student Quoted in Wall Street Journal by Lee Gomes, wsj.com, June 18, 2008

Chris Rouland, Chief Technology Officer of ISS, featured in "People in Business" AJC article

Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:06:30 -0400

Web security firm born at Tech has its hands full keeping computers as free of viruses as possible.

GTISC professor, Nick Feamster, invited to present at the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distrubuted Systems

Tue, 27 May 2008 11:20:22 -0400

Nick Feamster was invited to present a 3-hour tutorial at the 26th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from May 26 - 30th, 2008

Careful with that Call

Tue, 13 May 2008 10:18:54 -0400

"It’s only a matter of time until IP telephony is hit by spam and malware, experts say" by William Jackson, Government Computer News, May 5, 2008

Q&A with Ling Liu at University of Illinois-Chicago Distinguished Lecture

Tue, 13 May 2008 10:17:02 -0400

Q&A with Ling Liu at University of Illinois-Chicago Distinguished Lecture by Ryan Mark, Medill Reports, April 30, 2008

EVENT: GTISC Demo Day - April 24, 2008

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:30:43 -0400

GTISC Demo Day at the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, 3rd Floor. Continental breakfast at 8:30am and Demo Presentations at 9:00am - 11:00am. RSVP online.

CoC Faculty Member Testifies Before Congressional Committee

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 16:17:41 -0400

Professor Seymour (Sy) Goodman testified April 1 before the House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities.

GTISC Professor Nick Feamster featured in Tecnology Review article, Defending Laptops from Zombie Attacks

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:28:17 -0400

Computing Assistant Professors Nick Feamster and Adam Kalai Win Sloan Fellowships

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:27:03 -0400

Two School of Computer Science faculty members, Nick Feamster in the Networking and Telecommunications Group and GTISC, and Adam Kalai in the Theory Group and ARC ThinkTank, have been awarded the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan fellowships for 2008.

Cisco Security Advisory Based on GTISC Research

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:25:02 -0400

Cisco article, February 13, 2008

Prototype software sniffs out, disrupts botnets

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:23:13 -0400

Researchers this week detailed a prototype system to identify and eradicate botnets in the wild. NetworkWorld Community Blog, February 15, 2008

Use of Rogue DNS Servers on Rise

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:37:57 -0400

Mendacious machines controlled by hackers that reroute Internet traffic from infected computers to fraudulent Web sites are increasingly being used to launch attacks, according to a paper published this week by researchers with the Georgia Institute of Technology and Google Inc. By Jordan Robertson, Associated Press, February 14, 2008

Phishing Attacks Could Be Undetectable

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:36:12 -0400

Companies and users are at serious risk from a loophole in the the Domain Name System (DNS) that could make financial scams such as phishing attacks practically undetectable, according to a study presented this week by researchers from Georgia Tech and Google. By Matthew Broersma, TechWorld, February 12, 2008

GTISC Faculty Comments on Encryption

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:32:06 -0400

GTISC Professor Jonathon Giffin comments on password and computer encryption. By Ashley Phillips and Scott Michels, ABC News.com, February 11, 2008

SANS Flags Browsers, Botnets as Top Security 'Menaces'

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:32:07 -0400

SANS Institute revealed its list of the top menaces facing IT in the coming year. By David Nagel, Campus Technology, January 17, 2008

GTISC Director Featured in Wall Street Journal Article, "Web Sites to Keep You On Budget"

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:13:17 -0400

GTISC Director Mustaque Ahamad gives safety advice on online money management tools. Wall Street Journal, January 13, 2008

Spring 2008 GTISC Information Security Seminar Guest Speakers Announced

Tue, 8 Jan 2008 12:10:06 -0400

George L. Herron, VP, Chief Scientist, McAfee; Paul Q. Judge, Judge Ventures; Edwin Marcial, SVP & CTO, IntercontinentalExchange; Jerry Perullo, Director of Information Security, IntercontinentalExchange; Chris Ray, 2nd VP Information Technology, Aflac; Robin Sundaram, VP of Information Security, ChoicePoint

Recent GTISC Professor Published Articles

Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:58:35 -0400

"Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace," "Identify and Mitigate the Risks of Global IT Outsourcing," and "Global Sourcing of IT Services and Information Security: Prudence Before Playing"

GTISC Researchers mentioned in Spam Research Projects

Tue, 4 Dec 2007 11:16:37 -0400

GTISC researchers listed as part of a dozen research projects underway that focus on new technology and techniques to stop spam. By Cara Garretson, Network World, November 20, 2007

New Free Full Text Book: Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace

Tue, 4 Dec 2007 11:14:44 -0400

Sources/Authors: Seymour E. Goodman and Herbert S. Lin, Editors, Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, National Research Council (The National Academies Press)

Anthony Rutowski's presentation for GTISC Industry Leaders Series, "Next Gen Identity Management for Networks: Old Problems, New Challenges" posted on GTISC website

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:22:14 -0400

The lecture describes a significant initiative of almost non-stop global activity over the past year that brought together a diverse array of people and communities to explore and map the uncharted new universe of Identity Management.

10.16.07 - GTISC Industry Leaders Series Caleb Sima, CTO, SPI Dynamics - "Overview of Exploiting Web Applications"

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:10:48 -0400

GTISC Industry Leaders Series, 4:30 - 6:00 pm, Centergy Bldg, 5th floor, 75 5th Street, NW, Atlanta, GA 30308

Report: Hackers to Target Web 2.0, Mobile, RFID Technologies in '08

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:04:56 -0400

October 10, 2007 - The coming year will see hackers set their sights on users of Web 2.0, mobile and RFID technologies due to the vast potential for financial gain each represents, according to a cybersecurity think tank. CIO

Made for Hacking

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:58:12 -0400

October 3, 2007 - Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist, says the Internet is insecure. Forbes

Hold the Dates! GTISC Industry Leaders Series

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:23:53 -0400

10.16.07 - GTISC Industry Leaders Series - Caleb Sima, CTO, SPI Dynamics

11.13.07 - GTISC Industry Leaders Series - Anthony Rutowski, VP for Regulatory Affairs, VeriSign, Inc.

Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2008 Released

Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:15:14 -0400

Based on GTISC research and advance interviews with the panelists, this report covers five emerging threats expected to increase and evolve in 2008: Web 2.0 and client-side attacks, Targeted messaging attacks, Botnets, Threats targeting mobile convergence, Threats to Radio Frequency Identification systems.

Fall 2007 Security Summit Webcast Posted

Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:02:01 -0400

Webcast of Keynote Speaker Vinton Cerf of Google with Moderator Chris Rouland of IBM Internet Security Systems and Panelists Merrick Furst (Georgia Tech, College of Computing), Richard (Dickie) M. George (National Security Agency), George Heron (McAfee), Paul Judge (Secure Computing), Caleb Sima (Spi Dynamics), and Rowan Trollope (Symantec)

GTISC Names Advisory Board

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:12:33 -0400

GTISC has created a 19-member board of industry advisors to give GTISC advice and strategy as it grows as an academic research organization in information security.

GTISC Fall 2007 Security Summit

Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:45:27 -0400

GTISC Fall 2007 Security Summit - Emerging Cyber Security Threats and Countermeasures - Tuesday, October 2, 2007 - Keynote Speaker: Vinton G. Cerf, VP & Chief Internet Evangelist, Google

Information Security Seminar

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:34:25 -0400

The GTISC Information Security Seminar is in full swing for the fall semester. The weekly seminar provides interested students and faculty with access to the latest security problems faced by industry and commerce as well as state-of-the-art solutions developed by researchers at Georgia Tech and other academic institutions.

First version of BotHunter is officially released now! July 30, 2007

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:07:45 -0400

SRI International and Georgia Tech Institute (under the Cyber-TA research project) are pleased to announce the first Internet distribution of BotHunter, version 0.9.3.

Stolen data now more marketable

Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:00:39 -0400

Hackers today are cyber pros going for big bucks, not kids or vandals.