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News

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The NSF wants to pay tuition, rent and much more for BYU Cybersecurity students

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BYU first place in Rocky Mountain CCDC Regionals

March 11, 2024 02:31 PM
[Provo, UT, 2024-03-11] – Brigham Young University's cybersecurity team emerged victorious on Saturday in the Rocky Mountain Region Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (RMCCDC)(https://www.regis.edu/academics/colleges-and-schools/anderson/rmccdc), clinching the first-place title after two days of rigorous challenges.
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End-of-Semester CTF Winter 2023

March 27, 2023 05:47 PM
** COMPETE AND REGISTER ONLINE AT cyberjousting.com ** (Registrations open April 3rd, 2023)
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Justin Applegate places 2nd at SAINTCON 2022's Hacker Challenge

November 02, 2022 04:50 PM
Justin Applegate, BYU Cybersecurity student, placed 2nd at the Hacker Challenge, a capture-the-flag event, at SAINTCON 2022.
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BYU student makes it on the US Cyber Games Team

October 17, 2022 04:07 PM
Justin Applegate, a BYU student in Cybersecurity, made it onto the US Cyber Games team. Congratulations!
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BYU NCAE Cyber Games Results

October 03, 2022 03:50 PM
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BYU Cybersecurity Student Association Kickoff 2022

September 07, 2022 08:19 PM
On Friday September 2nd 2022, the BYU Cybersecurity Student Association had a smashing success at their club kickoff event. While 82 students officially signed in, club officials estimate around 100 students attended the event.
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Team from BYU wins AppSec Village's CTF @ DEFCON 2022

August 15, 2022 07:55 PM
Cybersecurity students, Justin Applegate, Tanner Meeves, Andrew Sabolsky, and Justin Mott won a CTF at DEFCON 2022!
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BYU student runs cybersecurity CTF with Utah middle and high schools

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BYU places 23/4034 in NAHAMCon CTF

May 02, 2022 09:01 AM
With 12022 points, BYU students worked on a cybersecurity competition, placing 23rd our of 4034 teams.
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Research

Passwords Are Meant to Be Secret

Passwords Are Meant to Be Secret: A Practical Secure Password Entry Channel for Web Browsers
A Gautam, TK Yadav, K Seamons, S Ruoti
arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.06159, 2024

Organizational science and cybersecurity

Organizational science and cybersecurity: abundant opportunities for research at the interface
RS Dalal, DJ Howard, RJ Bennett, C Posey, SJ Zaccaro, BJ Brummel
Journal of business and psychology, 1-29

Security behavioral complexity

Insiders’ adaptations to security-based demands in the workplace: An examination of security behavioral complexity
AJ Burns, C Posey, TL Roberts
Information Systems Frontiers 23 (2), 343-360

Secrecy coding

SECRECY CODING IN THE INTEGRATED NETWORK ENHANCED TELEMETRY (iNET)
M Shoushtari, W Harrison
TechRxiv

Enumerating LDPC code block length

Enumeration of the degree distribution space for finite block length LDPC codes
S Giddens, MAC Gomes, JP Vilela, JL Santos, WK Harrison
ICC 2021-IEEE International Conference on Communications, 1-6

Simulating Municipal Cybersecurity Incidents

Simulating Municipal Cybersecurity Incidents: Recommendations from Expert Interviews
Kira Gedris, Kayla Bowman, Aatish Neupane, Amanda Hughes, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Ryan West, Jon Balzotti, Derek Hansen
Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2036

Embedded Ethical Experiences: Designing Playable Case Studies for Ethics Education

Embedded Ethical Experiences: Designing Playable Case Studies for Ethics Education
DL Hansen, A Neupane, K Gedris
Co-Designing Resources for Ethics Education in HCI, ACM-CHI Workshop

Keyed Polar Coding for Physical-Layer Security without Channel State Information

Keyed Polar Coding for Physical-Layer Security without Channel State Information
TMS Pinto, JP Vilela, MAC Gomes, WK Harrison
ICC 2021-IEEE International Conference on Communications, 1-6

On Caching with Finite Blocklength Coding for Secrecy over the Binary Erasure Wiretap Channel

On Caching with Finite Blocklength Coding for Secrecy over the Binary Erasure Wiretap Channel
WK Harrison, M Shoushtari
2021 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS), 1-6

SDR Proof-of-Concept of Full-Duplex Jamming for Enhanced Physical Layer Security

SDR Proof-of-Concept of Full-Duplex Jamming for Enhanced Physical Layer Security
A Silva, M Gomes, JP Vilela, WK Harrison
Sensors 21 (3), 856
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