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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November 18, 2024
On October 25th, over thirty Manning CICS graduate students attended the second annual Cybersecurity Institute Hackathon with alumni, faculty, and cybersecurity industry professionals from the Massachusetts-based nonprofit MITRE with the goal of... more
November 12, 2024
The UMass Cybersecurity Club's Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) team won first place in the New England Regional competition beating seven highly competitive teams including Northeastern, West Point, and Rutgers and advancing to the... more
October 31, 2024
The Cybersecurity Institute will hold its annual hackathon in October 2025.
2024 Cybersecurity Institute's Hackathon
On October 25, 2024, researchers from the UMass Amherst Rescue Lab joined cybersecurity industry professionals from the... more
October 05, 2024
Professor Amir Houmansadr at UMass Amherst talks with Nichole Davis at WBZ NewsRadio 1030 about how you can protect yourself against online scammers.
October 01, 2024
Amir Houmansadr, Ali Naseh, Katherine Thai, Mohit Iyyer had their
