Alleged Brazilian botnet herder faces US extradition 8/25/2008
Red Hat, Fedora servers compromised 8/25/2008
Hackers ramp up Facebook, MySpace attacks 8/25/2008
Researcher details fundamental DNS flaw at security conference 8/25/2008
Senate approves bill to fight cyber-crime 8/25/2008
China overtakes U.S. in number of malicious Web sites hosted 8/25/2008
FBI ramps up war against spam 8/25/2008
DHS to host closed-door security forum 8/25/2008
National Academy of Sciences releases new cybersecurity report 8/25/2008
The computer virus turns 25 8/25/2008
Google releases API to help with online fight against cybercrime 8/25/2008
FBI "Operation Bot Roast": over 1 million potential victims of botnet cyber crime 8/25/2008
DHS posts Cyber Security Research and Development solicitation 8/25/2008
Organized crime 2.0 missing from "Sopranos" 8/25/2008
Web hacks using "evasive" techniques 8/25/2008
Public in dark about 95% of software bugs, says IBM 8/25/2008
China prepares for first strike in electronic war 8/25/2008
Bruce Schneier on cyberwar 8/25/2008
Google Desktop vulnerable to new attack 8/25/2008
Bush ID theft task force issues final recommendations 8/25/2008
One third of all sites vulnerable to data attack 8/25/2008
Apple patches 25 OS X security holes 8/25/2008
Naval Academy midshipmen match wits with NSA in cyber war 8/25/2008
New hacker techniques threaten agencies 8/25/2008
House panel aims for fresh look at homeland security 8/25/2008
Defense domain, civilian awareness: Elder, Garcia walk two sides of the cybersecurity beat 8/25/2008
"Storm worm" rages across the globe 8/25/2008
Advisory council calls for greater government/private sector cybersecurity collaboration 8/25/2008
UN: No new Internet "superstructure" 8/25/2008
New version of Mozilla Firefox addresses multiple vulnerabilities 8/25/2008
U.S. needs federal data security law now, says cybersecurity group 8/25/2008
Russia at risk of cyberterrorism 8/25/2008
DHS, energy industry joint exercise focuses on protecting oil and gas facilities from cyberattacks 8/25/2008
Veterans Affairs CIO: "We're more secure" 8/25/2008
University of Illinois to Lead $8 Million DARPA Project 8/25/2008
More Internet users may be taking phishing bait than originally thought 8/25/2008
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Apple, Adobe Products 8/25/2008
Network intrusions put net-centricity "at risk" 8/25/2008
Disaster readiness puts tech tools to the test 8/25/2008
Sharing data is crucial to cyberdefense 8/25/2008
Colleges are textbook cases of cybersecurity breaches 8/25/2008
Federal IT spending to reach $6.3 billion 8/25/2008
Microsoft releases seven security bulletins 8/25/2008
CERT report released: Information Assurance: Building Educational Capacity 8/25/2008
Rethinking the supercomputer: sure, it's fast, but is it secure? 8/25/2008
UIUC-developed software tools detect bugs by inferring programmers' intentions 8/25/2008
DHS Awards Contracts for IT Services 8/25/2008
Law Enforcers and CSIRTs Meet in New Global Cybercrime Counterattack 8/25/2008
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 8/25/2008
U. S. Strategic Command leads DOD cyberdefense efforts 8/25/2008
Analysis warns U.S. of cybersecurity weaknesses 8/25/2008
New research center established to battle identity theft 8/25/2008
Attack code for Windows flaw heightens risk 8/25/2008
PC World: Congressional regulation of cybersecurity called possible 8/25/2008
InfoWorld: Major cyberattack would have "moderate" effect on oil and gas industries 8/25/2008
CyberCIEGE update available 8/25/2008


The National Center for Advanced Secure Systems Research NCASSR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a multi-institutional cybersecurity research team. NCASSR focuses basic and applied research necessary to develop next generation information security technologies that address national cybersecurity needs. NCASSR is led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and supported by funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).


SELS 0.7 released
Secure Email List Services (SELS) is an open source software for creating and developing secure email list services among user communities.
 
Strong community engagement strengthens cybersecurity research and development
NCASSR-supported exploratory research at NCSA and elsewhere has sparked additional external funding and development opportunities as well as successful deployment and adoption by users ranging from the defense sector to state law enforcement to the utilities industry.
 
NCASSR Collaborator Goes To Washington
Carl Gunter, a professor in the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science and a project lead on NCASSR-supported work involving adaptive, secure messaging, recently spoke to an audience of congressional staffers and lobbyists on Capitol Hill regarding ways to address a variety of critical cybersecurity issues in areas such as healthcare and energy distribution.