Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Second Afternoon Hearing

Prof. Spafford participated as a panelist on the Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board hearing. The topic was potential reform of the laws that govern NSA domestic surveillance.

How a grad student trying to build the first botnet brought the Internet to its knees

Feds Proving Internet-Adept and Inept at same Time

Bertino Named Editor-in-Chief of Top IEEE Journal

Lessons from the First Major Computer Virus

Eugene Spafford, one of the first to analyze the Morris Worm, says we haven’t learned from it or other major security breaches since.

The Evolution of IT Security Ethics

Purdue’s Spafford on Building Trust with the Public

Spafford calls for more manager, employee accountability (Federal News Radio)

The one action that may make the most difference in how federal agencies secure their computer networks involves no new whiz-bang technology. It has no up-front real-dollar costs either.

Spaf on Security

He was one of the first computer scientists to dissect the game-changing worm that hit the Internet 25 years ago and took down thousands of computers. He’s also credited for defining software forensics and shaping other security technologies. But Eugene “Spaf” Spafford says security still isn’t taken seriously enough today.

Sypris Expands Indiana-based Research Center

Spafford on Educating Executives

To mark his induction into the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame, Purdue University Computer Science Professor Eugene Spafford offers insights on key challenges, including overcoming senior executives’ misperceptions about key issues.