🚨 Georgia Tech researchers warn Tile trackers put 88M+ users at risk. 🔎 Findings: - Unencrypted IDs enable tracking - Data may allow mass surveillance - Anti-stalking tools easily bypassed - Attackers could even frame users Read more: www.wired.com/story/tile-t...

Thanks to the tireless dedication of our faculty, students, and staff, Georgia Tech has once again claimed the No. 2 spot on the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges #rankings in #cybersecurity undergraduate education! Read more about the rankings below: news.gatech.edu/news/2025/09...

A huge thank you to Dmitri Alperovitch for visiting SCP and speaking to our students! Dmitri is Cybersecurity and Geopolitics Thought Leader as well as the first graduate of Georgia Tech’s Information Security master’s degree! It was an honor to have you on campus!

🚨 News Alert! 🚨 Georgia Tech Assistant Professor Ryan Shandler has received a DARPA Young Faculty Award to lead a two-year study on the psychological and societal impacts of cyberattacks. 1/3

Every year, the world’s best #hackers, #programmers, side-channel exploiters, and #cyber practitioners gather in Las Vegas to put their skills to the test at #DefCon, the community’s largest annual convention. Read More: www.cc.gatech.edu/news/georgia...

Some snapshots from the first week of classes at SCP!

Today is Dr. Michael Bailey’s last day as chair, but it’s not goodbye! He will be staying on as a professor and will teach CS 8803 Online Trust and Safety and CS 6250 Computer Networks this fall at Georgia Tech Europe.

We’re here and leaving our mark! Ready for AIxCC!

Tomorrow, a new era of cybersecurity software will spring out of the Mojave Desert as the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge comes to a close. The cyber reasoning systems developed by the participating teams- including the Georgia Tech affiliated Team Atlanta- will become open source technologies. 1/3

Summer Update from SCP! We’re thrilled to share that Regents’ Entrepreneur Mustaque Ahamad has been appointed Interim Chair of the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy! 1/4

What are the security risks for decentralized currency? That's what Computer Science Ph.D. student Mingyi Liu and her colleagues set out to determine when they surveyed nearly 500 crypto investors to identify common mistakes among traders. Read the full piece in The Conversation U.S.: bit.ly/4jpuS8V

🚨 Article Alert: SCP and ECE Associate Professor Brendan Saltaformaggio co-authored a piece with ECE Ph.D. Student David Oygenblik in @us.theconversation.com lnkd.in/gzZmeJ5K

Commencement is a bitter sweet moment as we say farewell to the incredible students we have gotten to know during their time at Georgia Tech. We put together a micro-site celebrating five outstanding Ph.D. students leaving SCP to continue impacting the world of Computer Science!

It's time to recognize excellence!! Yesterday, the College of Computing held its annual awards ceremony and honored faculty, students, and staff for their hard work over the past year. SCP had four faculty and one staff member represent the school on the award's stage!

We were very fortunate to hear from Zhuo Zhang today on how third party red-teams can help the broader #cybersecurity community protect itself from the growing number of #cyberattacks. Want to tune into the next faculty recruiting talk? Check out: scp.cc.gatech.edu/events

Thanks to the incredible hard work of our #students, #faculty, and #staff, this year's #PhD Admit Visit was a success! We are incredibly grateful for the 2025 Ph.D. admits for traveling to #Atlanta and learning more about life at #GeorgiaTech.

A huge thank you to Shawn Shan for sharing with us how he is addressing the unequal power AI companies hold over the government and the creative community.

We are thrilled to welcome Mary Ellen Callahan, former assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (CWMD) to SCP as a professor of the practice! www.cc.gatech.edu/news/former-...

Met Dr. Genkin touring for the RCSI with GTRI. His impressive efforts on hardware vulnerabilities is only exceeded by his humor, humility, and charm. Congrats!

Today, the College of Computing announced the faculty receiving promotions and tenure with two being from SCP! Associate Professor Daniel Genkin will be receiving tenure as will @pearce.bsky.social, who is also being promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor. Congratulations!

Is the Fourth Industrial Revolution upon us? Research Fellow Dennis Murphy and Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Assoc. Prof. Lawrence Rubin dig in to how this new age of innovation and advancement might affect society, politics, economics, cyber warfare and the battlefield: lnkd.in/ejiTiSyE

He plans to secure autonomous robots as they develop. He is Glen Chou, the new Assistant #Professor in the School of #Cybersecurity and #Privacy and the Daniel Guggenheim School of #Aerospace #Engineering! Learn more about Prof. Chou here: www.cc.gatech.edu/news/securin... #AI

Very grateful to Joe Calandrino for leading a fantastic discussion today on research that informs and advances Public Policy! We always enjoy having policy experts on campus.

Recently our very own Associate Professor Saman Zonouz was a part of a panel on whether smart #technology increases the risk of #cyberattacks! Interested in learning more? lnkd.in/gMJ3iEJZ #togetherwecompute

Have you purchased a new Apple device in the last few years? If so, SCP researchers have discovered two new side channel attacks that allow attackers to read sensitive login-protected data on your webpages. Checkout the research project at predictors.fail

A new $3 million award for software bill of material (SBOM) in critical infrastructures has been awarded to SCP and ECE Associate Professor Saman Zonouz and a team of Georgia Tech researchers! This will provide greater transparency into software supply chains based on their past works.

The Georgia Tech Office of the Bursar, Office of Information Technology (OIT), and the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid (OSFA) are warning students about cybertheft affecting student refund payments, including financial aid refunds. Read more: oit.gatech.edu/students-are...

Welcome to the party SCP!

Big news! The ACM has recognized SCP Chair Michael Bailey for his contributions to the field of computing! Congrats Bailey!! 🥳 www.cc.gatech.edu/news/acm-rec... #cybersecurity #academia #georgiatech #acm #research

Fantastic to see my department join bluesky! @gatechcyber.bsky.social

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