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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

Engineered Persuasion: Evaluating Personalized Pretexts in LLM-Generated Spear Phishing

Authors: Jerson Francia, Derek Hansen, Benjamin Schooley, Shydra Valynn Murray
Citation: arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.04410 (2026).
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ASN1spect: Uncovering ASN.1 Compiler-Generated Vulnerabilities in Critical Infrastructure

Authors: Seaver Thorn, Nathaniel Bennett, Kevin Butler, Patrick Traynor, William Enck
Citation: Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Secure Development Conference (SecDev 2026), 13 pages (2026).
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Fizzle: A Framework for Deterministic and Reproducible Network Fuzzing

Authors: Nathaniel Bennett, Tyler Tucker, Carson Stillman, William Enck, Patrick Traynor, Kevin R. B. Butler
Citation: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2026), pp. 2868–2884 (2026).
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Devilray: A Reconfigurable Adversarial Baseline for Revealing Blind Spots in Fake Base Station Detection

Authors: Taekkyung Oh, Duckwoo Kim, Hansung Bae, Beomseok Oh, CheolJun Park, Tyler Tucker, Nathaniel Bennett, Sangwook Bae, Byeongdo Hong, Patrick Traynor, Yongdae Kim
Citation: arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.19232 (2026).
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Practical Attacks on AFC Clients in Wi-Fi Access Points

Authors: Yilu Dong, Tianchang Yang, Nathaniel Bennett, Arupjyoti Bhuyan, Syed Rafiul Hussain
Citation: Dynamic and Innovative Spectrum Sharing (DISS 2026) Workshop, co-located with IEEE DySPAN 2026, pp. 1–4 (2026).
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On the Security of 6 GHz Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC)

Authors: Nathaniel Bennett, Arupjyoti Bhuyan, Nicholas J. Kaminski
Citation: Workshop on Security and Privacy of Next-Generation Networks (FutureG 2026), co-located with NDSS 2026.
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Healthcare Cybersecurity

Authors: Benjamin Schooley, Tonia San Nicolas-Rocca
Citation: Information Technology for Healthcare Leaders, 10th ed., pp. 85–112 (2026).
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Passkeys in the Wild: A Systematic Study of FIDO2 User Experience Consistency Across Websites

Authors: Bernhardt Ramat, Dave Kartchner, Michael Clark, Kent Seamons
Citation: Proceedings of the 22nd Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2026), pp. 21–39.
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Assessing AI-Generated vs. Human-Authored Spear Phishing SMS Attacks: An Empirical Study

Authors: Jerson Francia, Derek Hansen, Benjamin Schooley, Matthew Taylor, Shydra Valynn Murray, Rebekah Cornelius, Greg Snow
Citation: Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, 6(4), 129 (2026).
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Human-Centered Threat Modeling in Practice: Lessons, Challenges, and Paths Forward

Authors: Warda Usman, Yixin Zou, Daniel Zappala
Citation: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2026), pp. 848–866.
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