When GPS lies at sea, the consequences can be serious. Georgia Tech PhD student Anna Raymaker explains how GPS jamming and spoofing can make ships appear miles from their true location—sometimes leading to accidents. Read more: theconversation.com/when-gps-lie...

Today is the last day of Ph.D. Preview! We had such a great time showing these admits around SCP and showing them what it means to research cybersecurity and privacy at Georgia Tech! A big thank you to the faculty, staff, and students that made this week a success!

Congratulations to Frank Li for being promoted to Associate Professor and earning tenure!

Black-box AI? Not anymore. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology created ZEN — a framework that can trace a proprietary AI model back to its open-source origins. Read the story: www.cc.gatech.edu/news/scp-you...

A huge thank you to Priyanka Nanayakkara for coming to SCP! We loved hearing about your approach to protecting privacy with human-centered tools!

Had so much fun visiting SCP and Georgia Tech last week!

We had a spectacular discussion with Collins Munyendo yesterday about his research on more usable and secure authentication! Thank you Dr. Munyendo for visiting SCP! @collinsmunyendo.bsky.social

The 2026 cybersecurity academic conference season begins this Monday with the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium in San Diego! Georgia Tech has five papers with 18 authors covering topics from AI Security to Network Security. public.tableau.com/views/NDSS20...

PRISM Voices | Researcher Spotlight👇 Veronica Rivera studies harm & self-protection in gig work, sex work & online dating. PRISM-supported work w/@eredmil1.bsky.social at #CSCW2024. She joins Georgia Tech’s School of Cybersecurity and Privacy (@gatechcyber.bsky.social). #NSFPRISM #DigitalSafety

Kodi Brown brings calm to SCP. As a financial support coordinator in Georgia Tech’s School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, she supports major NSF proposal submissions — building systems that help faculty navigate some of the school’s busiest cycles. Read her story: www.cc.gatech.edu/news/scp-kod...

Our January newsletter is live! Check out what's new from SCP: mailchi.mp/cc.gatech.ed...

🚨 New research from Georgia Tech reveals an AI “blind spot” that could let attackers quietly take control of self-driving vehicles. The findings highlight a critical need for stronger security as autonomous tech expands. www.cc.gatech.edu/news/scp-res...

Georgia Tech wins the NSA Codebreaker Challenge for the fifth straight year. Students earned nearly 300,000 points to take first place in the top division, highlighting the Institute’s leadership in hands-on cybersecurity education. www.cc.gatech.edu/news/scp-geo...

Georgia Tech thought leadership on AI and infrastructure risk: Ann Dunkin, Distinguished Professor at Georgia Tech and former CIO of the U.S. Dept. of Energy and EPA, warns that AI’s power demands are colliding with grid instability. 1/2

The #AIxCC trophy is home in Atlanta!

🚑 Big news from Georgia Tech’s School of Cybersecurity and Privacy! The team just received up to $12M from ARPA-H to build H-VIPER, a new system that helps hospitals proactively find and fix cyber vulnerabilities. 1/3

🎓 Meet a first-of-its-kind Yellow Jacket: Kyle Grisamore — the first person to earn both an MBA and an MS in Cybersecurity at Georgia Tech! 🔐📈 1/4

The School of Cybersecurity and Privacy raised $2,110 for @GeorgiaTech’s Klemis Kitchen, helping fight food insecurity on campus 💛 Led by Mary Helen Hayes, SCP faculty & staff filled two cars with groceries — an inspiring act of #ProgressAndService. www.cc.gatech.edu/news/scp-foo...

Peter Swire, J.Z. Liang Chair in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, has been recognized by the policy organization IAPP for his decades of leadership in privacy! Read more about Swire's career as a leader in privacy: www.linkedin.com/pulse/25-lea...

Every winning team has its unsung hero — and for Georgia Tech’s Team Atlanta, that’s Elijah Mastinu. The SCP admin pro helped power the team’s AI Cyber Challenge victory with tireless behind-the-scenes work. 🏆 Read more ➡️ www.cc.gatech.edu/news/unsung-...

Congratulations to the winners of our second annual Staff Pumpkin Painting Contest! In first place: The Snoopy Pumpkin 🥇 In second place: The Sugar Skull Pumpkin 🥈 A huge thank you to our staff for sharing this project with us and a special thanks to everyone who voted!

🚨 Breaking: #cybersecurity #researchers built a cheap DDR5 memory interposer that can read DRAM traffic and extract TEE attestation keys from Intel & AMD — even forge TDX quotes. Hardware-backed confidential computing isn’t safe from physical attacks. Read the paper: tee.fail

🔐 Georgia Tech researchers are pushing us closer to a passwordless future! Assistant Prof. Frank Li has earned an NSF CAREER award to advance secure, easy logins (think passkeys & FIDO2 tech) — and inspire the next gen of cybersecurity experts. 👉 www.cc.gatech.edu/news/new-res...

A record number of Georgia Tech research papers are being presented this week at one of the world's top security conferences! Learn more about what will appear at the 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security here: lnkd.in/exFpe4-b

🚨 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.