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Firefox tool counters man-in-the-middle attacks
News Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have released an extension for Firefox 3 that can protect wireless-network users from so-called 'man-in-the-middle' attacks. Perspectives also protects against attacks that exploit a recently exposed flaw...
[August 27, 2008, 10:57]
Web users ignoring security certificate warnings
News Digital certificate warnings in web browsers are not an effective security measure, according to Carnegie Mellon researchers. The Carnegie Mellon researchers found that a high percentage of users were willing to ignore warnings about certificates...
[July 27, 2009, 16:38]
Anti-spam tool helps digitise books
News A group of Carnegie Mellon University programmers has launched a service called "ReCaptcha" that can help cut down on spam while letting people digitise books. Not only can you solve your problems with spam, you can help preserve mankind's written...
[May 25, 2007, 13:11]
Techs team on cure for software woes
News Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco Systems, NASA and others have teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University to make software more reliable, secure and less buggy. Carnegie Mellon on Thursday launched the Sustainable Computing Consortium (SCC), which brings...
[May 17, 2002, 8:11]
Students propose defence for DoS attack
News In two papers presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy on Monday, graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University suggested simple modifications to network software that could defeat denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
[May 13, 2003, 13:30]
Security flaw disclosures harm share prices
News Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania found that a vendor's share price drops by an average of 0.63 percent on the day a vulnerability is announced. The research was conducted by Rahul Telang, the assistant professor of...
[June 8, 2005, 17:55]
Tech monoculture study wins funding
News The study, proposed by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of New Mexico almost a year ago, will seek to identify commonalities in software that could be used as the basis for attacks. We are looking at computers the way a physician would...
[November 26, 2003, 9:40]
CIH is a dodo
News We've seen nothing out of the ordinary," said Bill Pollak, spokesman for the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre at Carnegie Mellon University in the U.S. In the United States, mainly home users and students ran afoul of the...
[May 27, 1999, 8:51]
Looking after oil
News The inaugural classes of Carnegie Mellon and Texas A&M completed their first year in May. Cornell, Texas A&M and Carnegie Mellon have freshman and sophomore classes only, and no one has graduated from the Qatar program yet.
[January 23, 2006, 11:35]
New cyber attack method surfaces
News It's possible to detect the attack, but it is very hard to block it" using current software, said Thomas Longstaff, senior technical researcher for Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, during a panel presentation Tuesday.
[October 20, 1999, 8:20]
Hackers put Net security watchdog out of action
News Access to the site was sporadic early Wednesday, with the Carnegie Mellon University-based centre reportedly accessible from the eastern United States but inaccessible to many other site users. Pethia, director of the Networked Systems...
[May 24, 2001, 9:30]
Linux 'better than proprietary software'
News A typical commercial program of similar size usually has more than 5,000 flaws or defects, according to data from Carnegie Mellon University. Proprietary software, in general, has one to seven flaws per thousand lines of code, according to an April...
[December 14, 2004, 10:30]
Looking for True Permanence in File Storage
Blog The publicized reports recently of the Google and the Carnegie-Mellon hard drive studies basically reinforced my prior experiences with hard drives. As Carnegie-Mellon has shown, even hard drive Raid5 arrays are not really a viable answer.
[May 9, 2008, 11:47]
Robot meets robot in 'Darpa city' race
News One of the Carnegie Mellon team members said the vehicle was having trouble pulling down positioning data from its GPS (global positioning system). Carnegie Mellon's robot, Boss, a modified Chevy Tahoe, approaches the finishing line on Saturday...
[November 6, 2007, 10:51]
Experts warn of new-style cyber attack
News It's possible to detect the attack, but it is very hard to block it using current software," said Thomas Longstaff, senior technical researcher for Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, during a panel presentation Tuesday.
[October 20, 1999, 10:45]
Microsoft aims to teach the teachers
News Rick Rashid, head of Microsoft Research and a former professor at Carnegie Mellon, will also speak. Intel, for example, opened three "lablets" at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University...
[July 29, 2002, 12:56]
Computer science's gender gap
News Your research has had an impact on the computer science department of Carnegie Mellon, raising women's enrollment in the program from 7 percent in 1995 to 42 percent in 2000. Q: What did you discover in your research at Carnegie Mellon University?
[February 11, 2002, 11:49]
Online library offers 1.5m books for free
News You're not going to find over 900,000 works in Chinese on Google," said Michael Shamos, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and director of intellectual property for the Universal Digital Library (UDL).
[November 28, 2007, 11:13]
Computer science turns off students
News At Carnegie Mellon University, 2,000 students applied to the school of computer science this year, down from 3,200 in 2001. Peter Lee, associate dean at Carnegie Mellon's school of computer science, worries that fewer undergraduate computer science...
[August 12, 2004, 9:45]
Hackers strike at CERT tracking site
News The group, based at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Penn.coordinates the communications among the myriad response teams scattered among U.S.universities, companies and government agencies. Pethia, director of the Networked Systems...
[December 6, 2001, 8:53]
