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Humans or AI? Who or what can scam you more effectively?

BYU research finds AI knows how to use a personal touch to dupe people.
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Preparing for Service: Cybersecurity Students Take Learning Beyond Campus

Recipients of the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service took part in a career focused tour of Space Dynamics Laboratory, Hill Air Force Base, and Idaho National Laboratory.
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Pressure and Policy: BYU Cyber Strategy Team Earns Second Place in Monterey

A BYU team tackled national security cyber challenges as a strategic puzzle at the Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge.
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BYU cybersecurity students adapt to a continually growing field by learning together, inside and outside of class

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BYU Cybersecurity Shines at SaintCon with Hacking, Voice Cloning, and Smarter Training Solutions

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BYU Students Expose Critical Router Vulnerabilities at DEF CON

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

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Cybersecurity team takes first place in regional competition

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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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BYU Cybersecurity Team Secures Victory

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Research

Examining Cryptography and Randomness Failures in Open-Source Cellular Cores

Authors: K. Virgil English, Nathaniel Bennett, Seaver Thorn, Kevin R. B. Butler, William Enck, Patrick Traynor
Citation: Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2024), pp. 43–54 (2024).
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Generative AI Applied to AAC for Aphasia: A Pilot Study of Aphasia-GPT

Authors: Dallin J. Bailey, Francesca Herget, Derek Hansen, Forrest Burton, Grant Pitt, Tyson Harmon, David Wingate
Citation: Aphasiology, 40(1), 150–165 (2026; first published online 2024).
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Secrecy Codes for Telemetry Links

Authors: Dallin T. Bowden, Tobias S. Cook, Nathan B. Estoque, Willie K. Harrison
Citation: International Telemetering Conference Proceedings (ITC 2024).
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Deniable Encrypted Messaging: User Understanding after Hands-on Social Experience

Authors: Anamika Rajendran, Tarun Kumar Yadav, Malek Al-Jbour, Francisco Manuel Mares Solano, Kent Seamons, Joshua Reynolds
Citation: Proceedings of the 2024 European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC 2024).
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Visualizing Cybersecurity Diagrams: An Empirical Analysis of Common Weakness Enumeration Images

Authors: Benjamin Schooley, Derek Hansen, Ethan James Richmond, Malaya Jordan Canite, Nimrod Max Huaira Reyna
Citation: HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust (HCI-CPT 2024), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 14728, pp. 296–317.
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A Comparison of Three Approaches to Assist Users in Memorizing System-Assigned Passwords

Authors: Michael Clark, Scott Ruoti, Michael Mendoza, Kent Seamons
Citation: Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC 2024).
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A Security and Usability Analysis of Local Attacks Against FIDO2

Authors: Tarun Kumar Yadav, Kent Seamons
Citation: Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2024).
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Passwords Are Meant to Be Secret: A Practical Secure Password Entry Channel for Web Browsers

Authors: Anuj Gautam, Tarun Kumar Yadav, Kent Seamons, Scott Ruoti
Citation: arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.06159 (2024).
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InfoGuard: A Design and Usability Study of User-Controlled Application-Independent Encryption for Privacy-Conscious Users

Authors: Tarun Yadav, Austin Cook, Justin Hales, Kent Seamons
Citation: arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.00812 (2023).
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Adaptive Linear Secrecy Codes with Feedback

Authors: David Hunn
Citation: International Telemetering Conference Proceedings, vol. 58 (2023).
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