“Scams are nothing new – fraud has existed as long as human greed. What changes are the tools.” In a column for @us.theconversation.com, Professor Rahul Telang of @cmuheinzcollege.bsky.social shares strategies for identifying and avoiding #AI-. #crypto-, and personal data-driven scams:

"When you look at these deceptive and manipulative patterns...there are cases where you just have to conclude that they did it on purpose." @lorriecranor.bsky.social, @cylab.bsky.social Director, chats w/ @mnickelsburg.bsky.social of @npr.org about the FTC’s “dark patterns” lawsuit against Amazon:

We're hosting the 7th intl' conf. on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT'25) at Carnegie Mellon on Oct. 8-10. Join us to hear about the latest exciting developments in crypto research. Registration closes on Sept 16! advfintech.org/aft25/attend... (Program: advfintech.org/aft25/progra...)

Join us Tuesday, October 7 for the 2025 CMU Secure Blockchain Summit! Check out this year's schedule, and sign up to request to attend this free event. Schedule and details: www.cylab.cmu.edu/research/blo... Request to attend: bit.ly/request-secu...

The newest member of the @cmu.edu Information Networking Institute (INI) faculty, Associate Teaching Professor Taha Khan, brings a thoughtful approach to cybersecurity, censorship and freedom on the internet. You can learn more about Khan and his background here:

. @v0max.bsky.social, Founder and Chief Scientist at APPCensus, a CyLab Venture Network Startup Partner, has been named @cylab.bsky.social's 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. Learn more:

Most U.S. adults say they are concerned about data #privacy while traveling, but few take steps to keep theirs safe. Prof. Lorrie Cranor (@lorriecranor.bsky.social), @cylab.bsky.social Director, tells @justynnewman.bsky.social of @pcmag.com that users may be prioritizing convenience over #security:

We've been in our orange era all along!

“I question whether people really want their Instagram friends to know that much about them 24-7.” Professor @lorriecranor.bsky.social, @cylab.bsky.social Director, chats with @thomasgermain.bsky.social of #BBCNews about #privacy and #security concerns around the new “Instagram Map” feature.

In part two of 'The Science of Sound,' Laurie Heller of the Auditory Perception and Cognition Lab explains how the brain recognizes #sound. Heller explores what’s next for hearing technology, including better treatments for sound disorders and more sophisticated hearing aids. 🎧 Listen now:

Carnegie Mellon's (@cmu.edu's) hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its fourth consecutive title at the 2025 @defcon.bsky.social Capture-the-Flag competition, earning its record ninth victory in 13 years. #defcon2025 #defcon #defcon33

Carnegie Mellon University (@cmu.edu) faculty members and students are preparing to share their research at next week’s USENIX Security Symposium in Seattle. Learn more about the @cylab.bsky.social co-authored papers that will be presented at #usesec25:

CyLab is collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) to convene leaders and practitioners in secure software development for the Third Annual Secure Software by Design event, to be held in Arlington, Virginia on August 19th and 20th.

. @cmu.edu faculty members and students will share their research at next week’s 2025 Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) in Seattle. Learn more about the @cylab.bsky.social co-authored technical papers that will be presented at #soups2025:

The @cmus3d.bsky.social Research Experience for Undergraduates in Software Engineering (REUSE) concluded today. Thirty-four students spent the summer doing engaging research projects in areas spanning all of computer science, which they presented during today’s final poster session. Congrats to all!

“A lot of cybersecurity defenses rely on human operators and I am not sure how well that will scale up to machine-timescale defenses.” Brian Singer, Ph.D. candidate in @cmu-ece.bsky.social, chats w/ David Jones of @cybersecuritydive.bsky.social about his recent research on autonomous #LLM attacks:

Day 2 of the @cylab.bsky.social Robotics Security and Privacy Workshop featured dynamic talks by @iluetkeb.bsky.social, Andrea Bajcsy, and Vivan Amin and breakout sessions on strategic approaches to building trusted middleware and toolchains to foster a secure, privacy-preserving robotics ecosystem.

Day 1 of the @cylab.bsky.social Robotics Security and Privacy Workshop is underway with introductions and technical talks! Attendees will collaborate in breakout sessions this afternoon to tackle research challenges on topics ranging from policy considerations to threat models and human factors.

In a groundbreaking development, a team of @cmu.edu researchers f/ Brian Singer, @lujobauer.bsky.social, and Vyas Sekar demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) are capable of autonomously planning and executing complex network attacks. Read more about their research: bit.ly/when-llms-au...

New research alert 🚨 from my group, “Blockchain Address Poisoning” (Tsuchiya et al.), to appear at USENIX Security 2025 (arxiv.org/abs/2501.16681)! As a follow-up, we also developed a real-time detection system: cryptotrade.cylab.cmu.edu/poisoning/ and x.com/toxin_tagger (1/7)

. @anthropic.com has announced a $1 million contribution to support picoCTF, which provides students a free #cybersecurity education platform to learn skills through an annual capture-the-flag (CTF) competition, yearlong learning guides, and regular tutorials. See full details below:

CMU has released faculty-authored position statements aimed at informing the national dialogue on #energy and #innovation, including work that @cylab.bsky.social researchers are doing to mitigate increasingly sophisticated, #AI driven #cybersecurity threats. www.cylab.cmu.edu/news/2025/07...

[email protected] faculty members are set to share their research at this week’s 2025 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (@pet-symposium.bsky.social) in Washington, D.C. Learn more about the @cylab.bsky.social co-authored papers to be presented at #PETS2025: www.cylab.cmu.edu/news/2025/07...

Many thanks to @paulohm.bsky.social, Professor of Law at @georgetownlaw.bsky.social, for visiting @cylab.bsky.social today to discuss his work connecting recent landmark papers in machine learning to important, interesting, and emerging questions in the law. #ML

Niloofar Mireshghallah, incoming @cylab.bsky.social ky.social‬, @cmu-epp.bsky.social, and @ltiatcmu.bsky.social professor, shares tips with @shiraovide.bsky.social and @heatherkelly.bsky.social of @washingtonpost.com for protectin#privacycy while usin#chatbotsts.

On July 28-29, @cylab.bsky.social will host a Robotics Security and Privacy Workshop on the @cmu.edu campus, convening leading researchers and experts from across academia and industry. See full details and request to attend below: #privacy #security #robotics

. @cmu.edu researchers are set to present five papers and chair one program session at the 46th @acm.org SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). Learn more about their @sigplan-pldi.bsky.social research: #PLDI2025

African organizations are partnering with educational institutions like picoCTF-Africa to teach students and young adults #cybersecurity skills in response to significant increases in cybercrime. Learn how via @robertlemos.bsky.social of @darkreading.bsky.social‬:

CyLab faculty members and students will lead three presentations at next week’s USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (#PEPR25). Learn more about the research they will be presenting:

A team featuring CyLab researchers was honored with the Test of Time Award at the 2025 Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC 2025).

“I have trouble believing if this system will actually solve this problem.” Professor Lorrie Cranor (@lorriecranor.bsky.social), @cylab.bsky.social Director, speaks to Lisa Bonos (@lisabonos.bsky.social) of @washingtonpost.com about the “World” biometric “proof of human” credential network.

Professor Lorrie Cranor (@lorriecranor.bsky.social), CyLab Director, gives the keynote presentation at Cyburgh 2025, presented by @pghtechcouncil.bsky.social. In her keynote, Prof. Cranor shared examples of usable #privacy and #security research. #PTCCyburgh #Cyburgh2025 #PittsburghTech #InfoSec

Electrical and Computer Engineering (@cmu-ece.bsky.social) alum Anna Gerchanovsky (MS ‘24) and CyLab postdoctoral research alum Eric Zeng (@ericzeng.bsky.social) present #security and #privacy research at this week’s @chi.acm.org #CHI2025 in Yokohama, Japan.

@cylab.bsky.social wrote a great article on @hankhplee.bsky.social's #chi2025 paper on Purpose Mode. He presented it today and did a great job! PurposeMode reduces distraction on social media from 28% -> 7%. You can use it, too! It's open source :) cylab.cmu.edu/news/2025/04...

Students from @cmu.edu's Privacy Engineering Program shared their research during today’s Privacy in Software poster session. The students highlighted their implementations of different privacy-enhancing technologies, including differential #privacy, homomorphic encryption, and federated learning.

In a @washingtonpost.com article, Professor Lorrie Cranor (@lorriecranor.bsky.social), CyLab Director, tells Chris Velazco (@velazco.bsky.social) that restoring Apple accounts for users whose iPhones have been stolen is a solvable problem:

Many thanks to Seth Neel, Senior Research Scientist at Google Research, for visiting campus today to discuss his research on machine unlearning as part of the @cylab.bsky.social Seminar Series.

In a @darkreading.bsky.social article, Professor Lorrie Cranor (@lorriecranor.bsky.social), CyLab Director, explains to Becky Bracken (@beckybracken.bsky.social) why, regardless of #encryption protections, #Gmail user devices and accounts still need to be secured.