July 2017
Dr. Wu receives the PNC Technologies Career Development Professorship.
June 2017
Xiao Liu won the bronze medal during the ACM graduate student research competition at the PLDI conference, Barcelona, Spain. Congratulations Xiao!
Dr. Wu receives NSF CAREER Award to advance malware detection.
October 2016
More news on our network moving target defense: Network World, and many other places, including
Science Daily,
Science Newsline,
Innovation Toronto,
Learn,
IT Security News,
CryptoTips,
StartupZ,
Homeland Security News Wire,
Daily Mail,
Techxplore.
September 2016
A Penn State news release on our moving target defense work: Setting up a decoy network may help deflect a hacker’s hits. The news also appeared in Science Daily.
The work is also covered by Angel News and Daily Mail.
July 2016
Office of Naval Research (ONR) press release about our work JRed to fight software bloat:
Shedding the fat: ONR explores ways to trim software bloat, improve security.
August 2016
JRed was also covered by
Tech Republic: Bloatware as a security risk: Researchers’ innovative ways to combat the scourge
Tech Switch, and
itek.
November 2015
Our Uroboros paper and software release have generated quite a few buzzes on Twitter, GitHub, Reddit, and Weibo (Chinese Twitter).
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/moyix/status/657967369797672960
https://twitter.com/binitamshah/status/658101768258129920
https://twitter.com/z3r0cool/status/658107928759660544
Github:
https://github.com/s3team/uroboros
(We have got 36 stars, 10 watches, and 10 forks in less than a month after release!)
Reddit (reverse engineering):
Our tool is also introduced by Tencent Security Lab, in its “daily news” on Weibo (Chinese witter):
http://card.weibo.com/article/h5/s#cid=1001603902155651178545&from=&wm=&ip=10.13.113.216
November 2012
Dr. Wu receive NSF grant to support system security research.