China overtakes U.S. in number of malicious Web sites hosted 7/20/2007
FBI ramps up war against spam 7/20/2007
DHS to host closed-door security forum 7/20/2007
National Academy of Sciences releases new cybersecurity report 7/20/2007
The computer virus turns 25 7/20/2007
Google releases API to help with online fight against cybercrime 7/20/2007
FBI "Operation Bot Roast": over 1 million potential victims of botnet cyber crime 7/20/2007
DHS posts Cyber Security Research and Development solicitation 7/20/2007
Organized crime 2.0 missing from "Sopranos" 7/20/2007
Web hacks using "evasive" techniques 7/20/2007
Public in dark about 95% of software bugs, says IBM 7/20/2007
China prepares for first strike in electronic war 7/20/2007
Bruce Schneier on cyberwar 7/20/2007
Google Desktop vulnerable to new attack 7/20/2007
Bush ID theft task force issues final recommendations 7/20/2007
One third of all sites vulnerable to data attack 7/20/2007
Apple patches 25 OS X security holes 7/20/2007
Naval Academy midshipmen match wits with NSA in cyber war 7/20/2007
New hacker techniques threaten agencies 7/20/2007
House panel aims for fresh look at homeland security 7/20/2007
Defense domain, civilian awareness: Elder, Garcia walk two sides of the cybersecurity beat 7/20/2007
"Storm worm" rages across the globe 7/20/2007
Advisory council calls for greater government/private sector cybersecurity collaboration 7/20/2007
UN: No new Internet "superstructure" 7/20/2007
New version of Mozilla Firefox addresses multiple vulnerabilities 7/20/2007
U.S. needs federal data security law now, says cybersecurity group 7/20/2007
Russia at risk of cyberterrorism 7/20/2007
DHS, energy industry joint exercise focuses on protecting oil and gas facilities from cyberattacks 7/20/2007
Veterans Affairs CIO: "We're more secure" 7/20/2007
University of Illinois to Lead $8 Million DARPA Project 7/20/2007
More Internet users may be taking phishing bait than originally thought 7/20/2007
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Apple, Adobe Products 7/20/2007
Network intrusions put net-centricity "at risk" 7/20/2007
Disaster readiness puts tech tools to the test 7/20/2007
Sharing data is crucial to cyberdefense 7/20/2007
Colleges are textbook cases of cybersecurity breaches 7/20/2007
Federal IT spending to reach $6.3 billion 7/20/2007
Microsoft releases seven security bulletins 7/20/2007
CERT report released: Information Assurance: Building Educational Capacity 7/20/2007
Rethinking the supercomputer: sure, it's fast, but is it secure? 7/20/2007
UIUC-developed software tools detect bugs by inferring programmers' intentions 7/20/2007
DHS Awards Contracts for IT Services 7/20/2007
Law Enforcers and CSIRTs Meet in New Global Cybercrime Counterattack 7/20/2007
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 7/20/2007
U. S. Strategic Command leads DOD cyberdefense efforts 7/20/2007
Analysis warns U.S. of cybersecurity weaknesses 7/20/2007
New research center established to battle identity theft 7/20/2007
Attack code for Windows flaw heightens risk 7/20/2007
PC World: Congressional regulation of cybersecurity called possible 7/20/2007
InfoWorld: Major cyberattack would have "moderate" effect on oil and gas industries 7/20/2007
CyberCIEGE update available 7/20/2007


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).


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.
 
NCASSR Researchers Co-Chair Collaborative Security Workshop
Adam Slagell and Kiran Lakkaraju, both NCASSR researchers based at NCSA, are among the organizers of the Third IEEE Securecomm SECOVAL Workshop (The Value of Security through Collaboration), to be held September 17, 2007 in Nice, France.
 
SELS 0.3 released
Version 0.3 of Secure Email List Services (SELS) supports encrypting to multiple recipients. SELS has been developed with support from NCASSR.