AI and Cyber: The Twain Have Met
Prof. Anupam Joshi, UMBC
Video Deepfake Classification Using Evolving Deep Neural Networks
Prof. Li Zhang, Royal Holloway, University of London
Beyond the Surface: How Post-Training Artifacts Shape LLM Diversity and Safety
Prof. Weiyan Shi, Northeastern University
The International Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, of which UMBC is a member, will hold an online seminar on Security Challenges for UAVs via ZOOM from 7:00-8:30 am on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. It will include three short talks:
Darren Hurley Smith, University of Kent
Secure, Redundant Communications for Cooperative UAVs in Urban Airspace
Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus
Measures/ counter-measures on the use of drones in security and public safety applications
Aanjhan Ranganathan, Northeastern University Spoof, Defend, Deploy: Securing Full-Stack UAV Swarms
The International Cyber Security Center of Excellence and Northeastern University invite students to participate in the 6th International Country-to-Country (C2C) Capture the Flag (CTF) competition, C2C-CTF. This exciting competition allows students to work together as international teams to solve interesting CTF challenges while learning new skills, socializing, and promoting international collaboration and friendship.
C2C-CTF 2025 is organized and hosted by Northeastern University and will take place in person on its campus in Boston, Massachusetts. The organizing committee invites students at all levels from universities in the UK, USA, Japan, Israel, EU, and Australia to apply to participate.
Students can register online and participate individually in an online qualifying event from February 7 to 9, 2025. Students who qualify for the final competition will be organized into teams of five members from different universities to encourage international academic collaboration. These teams will compete in person at the final event in Boston from July 7 to 9, 2025.
The organizers will hold webinars as part of the competition and educational process, during which students will learn about and discuss cybersecurity issues.
A goal is to create diverse teams for the competition by selecting competitors from a broad range of backgrounds, nationalities, languages, genders, experiences, and cybersecurity skills. We seek motivated and resourceful participants who enjoy a tough, intellectual challenge in a cooperative international context -- we are not merely looking for experts who have won other hacking competitions, although those students are also welcome and strongly encouraged to participate.
Interested students should apply here by February 1, 2025.
Send questions about C2C-CTF to c2cctf@northeastern.edu.