March 19, 2025
In this seminar, we will invite leading experts to discuss cutting-edge research in advancing the safety and trustworthiness of GenAI. This is a 1-credit class where students are expected to attend talks in person, participate in discussions, and... more
March 10, 2025
UMass Cybersecurity Club is one of the top 12 universities to reach the Global Finals of the Collegiate Pentesting Competition in Rochester, NY.
The competition consisted of the Bugcrowd sponsored team and many other teams finding vulnerabilities... more
February 28, 2025
Amir Houmansadr gave a keynote at the Innovation in Metadata Privacy: Analysis and Construction Techniques (IMPACT) 2025 Program workshop. He spoke about Fighting Internet Censorship: Challenges and Opportunities.
February 18, 2025
Distinguished Professor Brian Levine was one of four panelists invited to speak at a Law Enforcement Caucus event on Feb. 11, discussing the threats posed by AI-generated child sexual abuse material and suggesting ways lawmakers and law enforcement... more
January 28, 2025
Amir Houmansadr gave an interview with
January 22, 2025
Amir Houmansadr discussed internet freedom on The Fabulous 413/New England Public Media, a daily afternoon radio show celebrating life in western Massachusetts.
January 06, 2025
Amir Houmansadr, associate professor of computer science in the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, will be extending his previous work on China's Great Firewall with support from the... more
December 10, 2024
Distinguished Professor Brian Levine worked with Michael Keller of The New York Times for new reporting on apps and the sexual abuse of children. Keller used Levine's App Danger Project as a part of his reporting of apps.
December 01, 2024
CensorLab is a censorship emulation platform that allows developers to test various censorship strategies against their own censorship circumvention tools. By proactively attempting to censor their own protocols, censorship circumvention developers... more
November 25, 2024
Eugene Bagdasarian, assistant professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at UMass Amherst, has been awarded a Distinguished Paper Award at the 2024 USENIX Security Symposium.
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