Purdue, CERIAS and Cyber Forensics Lab sponsoring conference on mobile forensics in Chicago

The first Mobile Forensics World conference will bring together experts from around the world who specialize in digital device investigation to Chicago.

CERIAS Featured in IATAC Newsletter

A focus piece is included along with sketches of several CERIAS faculty.

What Your Cell Knows About You

“…forensic code breakers (are) working to go beyond the obvious and familiar…”

Group says e-voting paper trail wouldn’t improve security

“The argument that people trust computers in other places is specious — safety-critical systems have been developed in other contexts using rigorous standards that are not applied to voting machines,” said Eugene Spafford.

Purdue Biometrics Lab featured in ScienceDaily

A study on the cleanliness of biometrics security devices by Christine Blomeke and Stephen Elliot of the Biometric Standards, Performance and Assurance Laboratory has been featured in ScienceDaily.

Spafford quoted on diversity in browser rendering engines

“Why do we want more than one layout engine? It helps to spur innovation and means that if a flaw occurs it won’t necessarily be in every browser at once. Having some different implementations of anything is a good thing,” Gene Spafford, computer science professor at Purdue University, told LinuxInsider.

ReAssure offers safe testbed for potentially destructive experiments

ReAssure, a project authored by CERIAS researcher Pascal Meunier and funded by an NSF grant, is both a testbed for potentially destructive experiments and repository of public images of virtual machines.

CERIAS ReAssure Project Release 0.20

Risk Communication Lecture Series - April 20

The final public lecture of the Risk Communication Lecture Series will take place at 2pm this Friday April 20 in the Dean’s Auditorium (Room 241) of Purdue's Pfendler Hall of Agriculture, located between Smith Hall and the Ag Administration Building.

The speaker is Baruch Fischhoff, Howard Heinz University Professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

2007 Symposium Poster Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 8th Annual Information Security Symposium Poster Competition!