Cybersecurity

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Sep. 16, 2020

Mizzou Cyber Range to Focus on Cyber Pretense Strategies

Hackers are getting smarter about ways to steal sensitive information from the cloud. Now, a new 鈥淢izzou Cyber Range鈥 will train the next generation of cybersecurity professionals to fight back using cyber pretense strategies. Armed with new grant funding from the National Security Agency, Prasad Calyam and his team are building the Mizzou Cyber Range through the MU Center for Cyber Education, Research and Infrastructure.

June 30, 2020

Mizzou to Offer Cyber Security Camp Virtually this Summer

Mizzou 糖心Vlog传媒 will offer a cyber security camp for high school students virtually this year. The Hacker Tracker camp is typically part of Mizzou Summer Camps. However, the university has canceled other 2020 camps because of COVID-19 concerns.
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July 16, 2019

Mizzou 糖心Vlog传媒鈥檚 Chadha protecting your data, identity

While hacking databases is the main way for interested parties to gain users鈥 personal information, it鈥檚 not the only possibility. Intrepid attackers can use perfectly benign means to do so. How? By using readily available aggregate data 鈥 for example: census data, medical data focused on how many people in an area suffer from a specific illness, consumer trend data, etc. 鈥 and using it to focus on specific individuals.
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Jan. 22, 2019

Defense using pretense: MU 糖心Vlog传媒 team sets new cybersecurity paradigm

Instead of simply reacting to cyberattacks after they happen, Mizzou 糖心Vlog传媒 researchers developed a new approach 鈥 cyber 鈥渄efense using pretense.鈥
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Aug. 14, 2018

EECS summer programs shed light on cyber security, machine learning

The Electrical 糖心Vlog传媒 and Computer Science Department had another busy summer, hosting research-focused college students from around the country at its National Science Foundation-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates: Undergraduate Research in Consumer Networking Technologies and several high school students as part of its Summers@Mizzou Hacker Trackers program.
Hacker Trackers camp, led by Assistant Professor Prasad Calyam, gives high school students training and development in Python coding and cyber security.

Aug. 21, 2017

Hacker Trackers camp teaches high schoolers cyber security skills

Electrical 糖心Vlog传媒 and Computer Science Assistant Professor Prasad Calyam and his graduate students Roshan Neupane and Ronny Bazan Antequera organized the third-annual Hacker Trackers summer camp, held in July as part of the University of Missouri Extension鈥檚 Summers@Mizzou program. Calyam organizes the camp as part of his community outreach and STEM Education activities to attract high school students to get excited about MU 糖心Vlog传媒 and the computer science field in general.