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PAST EVENTS:

October 6th, 2011: ISPIA Distinguished Lecture Series
  • Speaker: Balachander Krishnamurthy Ph.D, AT&T Labs-Research
    http://www.research.att.com/~bala/papers
  • Title: Internet privacy: It is not getting better
  • Date: Thursday, October 6th, 2011
  • Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    (The doors open at 2:30pm. Light refreshments available at 2:30 before the talk)
  • Location: Biological Sciences Building 587 (Teaching and Learning Center)

  • Abstract: Internet privacy has become a hot topic recently with both the advent of Online Social Networks and a significant amount of publicity related to privacy. For the last few years we have been examining the leakage of privacy on the Internet: how information related to individual users is aggregated as they browse seemingly unrelated Web sites. Our results show increasing aggregation of user-related data by a steadily decreasing number of entities. I will present results from studies on leakage of personally identifiable information (PII) via Online Social Networks (both traditional and mobile OSNs) and popular non-OSN sites. I will also present the current status of both technical and non-technical attempts to ameliorate the problem.

  • Bio: Balachander Krishnamurthy is a member of technical staff at AT&T Labs-Research. His focus of research of is in the areas of Internet privacy, Online Social Networks, and Internet measurements. He has authored and edited ten books, published over 80 technical papers, holds twenty nine patents, and has given invited talks in over thirty countries. He co-founded the successful Internet Measurement Conference and the Workshop on Online Social Networks. He has been on the thesis committee of several PhD students, collaborated with over seventy five researchers worldwide, and given tutorials at several industrial sites and conferences.

    His most recent book "Internet Measurements: Infrastructure, Traffic and Applications" (525pp, Wiley, with Mark Crovella), was published in July 2006 and is the first book focusing on Internet Measurement. His previous book 'Web Protocols and Practice: HTTP/1.1, Networking Protocols, Caching, and Traffic Measurement' (672 pp, Addison-Wesley, with Jennifer Rexford) is the first in-depth book on the technology underlying the World Wide Web, and has been translated into Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, and Chinese.

    Bala is ‘homepageless’ and not on any OSN, but many of his papers can be found at http://www.research.att.com/~bala/papers

  • Lecture poster


July 14, 2011: Keeping our information safe for the long term

ISPIA member, Dr. Wolfgang Tittle of Physics department, talks to UToday about the research that is underway in his group for keeping our information secure using Quantom encryption. See the UTODAY article to learn more.

April 14, 2011: ISPIA Distinguished Lecture Series

  • Speaker: Sergey Bratus, Ph.D, ISTS Chief Security Advisor and Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College
  • Title: What hacker research taught me (or: Hackers and Computer Science)
  • Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011
  • Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    (The door is open at 2:30pm. Some refreshments available at 2:30 before the talk)
  • Location: Biological Sciences Building 561 (Teaching and Learning Center)

  • Abstract: Although most academics and industry practitioners regard "hacking" as mostly ad-hoc, a loose collection of useful tricks essentially random in nature, I will argue that hacking has in fact become a "distinct research and engineering discipline" with deep underlying engineering ideas and insights. Although not yet formally defined as such, it are these ideas and insights that drive the great contributions that hacking has been making to our understanding of computing, including the challenges of handling complexity, composition, and security in complex systems. I will argue that hacking uncovers and helps to understand (and teach) fundamental issues that go to the heart of Computer Science as we know it, and will try to formulate several such fundamental principles which I have learned from hacker research. Click here to view expanded outline

  • Bio: Sergey Bratus is ISTS' Chief Security Advisor and a Postdoctoral Research Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College where he has taught the “Computer Security and Privacy” course. His current research focuses on applications of machine learning and AI to intrusion analysis. He is interested in all aspects of Unix security, in particular in Linux kernel security, and detection and reverse engineering of Linux malware. His other interests are in the application of Natural Language Processing and P2P networking applications for Semantic Web initiatives. Sergey received his undergraduate education at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (AKA, Moscow Phystech), and his Ph.D. at Northeastern University (1999). Before coming to Dartmouth, he worked at BBN Technologies on statistical learning for text understanding and similar topics.


November 18, 2010: Brian Snow, previous Senior Technical Director at the National Security Agency, spoke as part of ISPIA's Distinguished Lecture Series, on the subject of information assurance:

November 10, 2010: Experts in the field, including ISPIA's Drs. Tom Keenan and Tanya Beran, spoke at a Cyber Bullying forum , which also featured a panel discussion moderated by Frank Work, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta.


July 16, 2010: ISPIA Co-Director Mark Bauer comments on Enigma machine on display at The Naval Museum of Alberta. Read more >>


June 28, 2010: ISPIA recruit Dr. Michael Locasto interviewed about the feasibility of shutting down the Internet in response to a large-scale cyber attack. Read more >>


May 18, 2010: John Aycock comments on CSIS memo concerning cyber-attacks. Read more >>


May 2010: U of C Research on Typhoid adware earns media attention:

March 31, 2010: Constable Kathy Macdonald and Philip Fong comment on protecting online identity and privacy


March 8, 2010: Stopping computer threats before they start (John Aycock, UofC). Read more >>


December 8, 2009: Philip Fong gives public lecture on Protection Technologies for Social network Systems


August 11, 2009: CISaC has evolved into an Institute: We are now the Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance (ISPIA). See the UTODAY article to learn more.

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