Talk: Reconnaissance and Reverse Engineering, 12-1 Fri 2/17
Study of the Cyber-physical Systems in UMBC's ILSB building
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents
Reconnaissance and Reverse Engineering: A Case Study of Cyber-physical Systems in the UMBC Academic Building ILSB
Andrea Ferketich, UMBC and JHU/APL
Joint work with Zachary Amoss, Leo Brown, Kevin Chen, Will DeStaffan, Brandon Hill, and Kathleen Koerner. This work was carried out in fall 2022 as part Alan Sherman's INSuRE cybersecurity research class, with Zachary Birnbaum (APL) serving as technical director.
12-1 pm Friday, 17 February 2023,
via WebEx
We present our security analysis of three cyber-physical systems in UMBC’s new smart Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building (ILSB): the access control system, the surveillance system, and the atrium's electrical system. Supported by reconnaissance and reverse engineering, we identify potential vulnerabilities, attacks, and risks, and make recommendations. Conducting reconnaissance and reverse engineering activities on academic cyber-physical infrastructure is currently an insufficiently researched area, unlike critical infrastructure such as smart power grids and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). This project identifies how susceptible three cyberphysical systems in ILSB are to cyber attacks, and the significance of each attack to the relevant system. Without completing a full analysis and reconnaissance of the building, the DoIT and facilities manager cannot be sure how the online sensor infrastructure interacts with the physical infrastructure. Typically, academic spaces are more physically accessible than are industry equivalents, primarily due to the public nature of universities, which encourages unfettered access to buildings for the sake of collaboration and student freedom. This level of access, however, also expands the potential attack surface by opening up the university to cyber attacks performed via physical methods. Our group discovered multiple attacks on the three cyber-physical systems, produced recommendations to the university, and identified additional analysis that can be performed to secure the cyber-physical infrastructure further. Our group additionally created mappings of target systems that include interface details and connection types. After creating reconnaissance artifacts, we identified vulnerabilities within the target systems and vulnerabilities within the target system configurations.
Vulnerabilities we found include an authenticated command injection attack, and an unauthenticated denial of service on the webserver that hosts the physical access control system. Both vulnerabilities could be conducted by an adversary with a moderate level of effort and would enable the adversary to control the access control system, approving or denying access outside of normal operations. On the camera system, one attack we found is an incomplete client-side validation. Exploitation of this vulnerability requires more effort and would allow the adversary to inject arbitrary commands, including deleting camera footage.
Andrea Ferketich is an employee at JHU APL, working as a task leader for US Navy combat systems cybersecurity integration with tactical systems. She is a computer science PhD student at UMBC who is proficient with various cybersecurity tools, cyber network security, cyber risk assessment, cyber-physical security, policy and requirements writing, project management, executive-level presentations, and Android programming. Andrea served as her INSuRE group's technical project manager, coordinating with DoIT, and ensuring the overall project success with technical writing and resolving technical issues. Email:
andrea.ferketich@umbc.edu
Host: Alan T. Sherman,
sherman@umbc.edu. Support for this event was provided in part by the National Science Foundation under SFS grant DGE-1753681. The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab meets biweekly Fridays 12-1pm. All meetings are open to the public. Upcoming CDL meetings: March 3, Enis Goleszewski (UMBC), Channel binding in FIDO should not be optional,
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Wed, 15 Feb 2023 08:04:07 -0500
UMBC Engineering and Computing Week + COEIT 30th Anniversary
Feb. 20-24 in the ENGR atrium unless otherwise noted
Monday (2/20)
-Engineer's Week Kick-Off, 12pm-1pm, ENG Atrium
Celebrate the start of Engineering and Computing week with a brief talk from Dean Bowman on the history of COEIT, followed by a guest speaker and FREE LUNCH provided by Tau Beta Pi, The Engineering Honor Society
-New Student Organization Collaboration Room, Ribbon Cutting,3pm-4pm, ENG 014
Witness the ribbon cutting of the exciting NEW COEIT Student Organization Collaboration Room
Tuesday (2/21)
-ACM Info Booth, 12pm-1pm, ENG Atrium
Learn more about the Association for Computing Machinery and what they're all about!
-AIChE ChemE Car Reveal, 4pm-6pm, ENG Atrium
Witness the unveiling of the chemically powered car created by the American Institute for Chemical Engineering
-SWE & CWIT Hot Chocolate and Cookie Social, 7pm-8pm, ENG Atrium
Enjoy a FREE hot chocolate and cookie social hosted by the Society of Women in Engineering and the Center for Women in Technology
Wednesday (2/22)
-Engineers Without Borders Geography Challenge, 11am-12pm, ENG Atrium
Do you know your geography? Come test your knowledge at the Engineers Without Borders Geography Challenge
-IEEE Website Building, 12pm-1pm, ITE 238
Acquire the skill of website building! Taught by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-Retriever Robotics Robot Showcase, 2pm-3pm, ENG Atrium
Check out the capabilities of the robots build by UMBC's Retriever Robotics
-Men's Basketball Game (vs. UMass Lowell), 6pm, Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena
Support the men's basketball team and get some Engineering and Computing Week Swag (First Come First Serve)
Thursday (2/23)
-NSBE 3D Print Booth and Egg Drop Challenge, 12pm-1pm, ENG Atrium
Check out the 3D printing booth and test your engineering skills with the egg drop challenge hosted by the National Society of Black Engineers
-SHPE Diversity Panel, 5pm-6pm, ITE 238
Join the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers in a faculty panel discussion of diversity in STEM
-COEIT 30th Anniversary Alumni Reception, 5:30pm-7:30pm, Guinness Brewery Warehouse E
Alumni from the College of Engineering and Information Technology are invited to attend an alumni reception with Dean Keith Bowman, as well as college faculty and staff
-AIChE Jeopardy Game Night, 7pm-8pm, ENG 022
Play AIChE Jeopardy and test your knowledge with the American Institute for Chemical Engineering!
Friday (2/24)
-SHPEtina Coffee and Conchas, 10am-11am, ENG Atrium
Start the day off right with FREE delicious coffee and conchas provided by Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.
-Battle of COEIT, 12pm-1:30pm, ENG Atrium
Prove your major is the best by competing in various games. The winning major takes home the Engineering and Computing Week TROPHY.
-New Computing Success Center/SI PASS Space Academic Success Center/COEIT Ribbon Cutting in Fine Arts, 2pm-3pm, Fine Arts 010
Witness the ribbon cutting of the exciting NEW Computing Success Center/SI PASS Space Academic Success Center in the Fine Arts Building
-ASME Showcase and Gear Raffle, 3pm-4pm, ENG Atrium
Check out the showcase put on by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and participate in a raffle for some ASME swag.
-UMBC Racing Car Unveiling, 6pm-8pm, ENG Atrium
Witness the unveiling of the racing car built by the UMBC Racing team!
Week-Long Painted Rock Scavenger Hunt with PRIZES!
Find painted rocks hidden across the UMBC main campus AND Shady Grove campus. Bring the rocks to the COEIT Office in ITE 217 for a special PRIZE
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Thu, 09 Feb 2023 22:01:47 -0500
Cybersecurity Scholarships to UMBC
Apply by Feb 15
Cybersecurity Scholarships to UMBC
We are seeking new applications for UMBC's CyberCorps: Scholarships For Service (SFS) cohort. Based on available funding on our grant, we hope to make 10-15 awards over the next year or so. Applications are due by 2/15. The SFS program is a fantastic opportunity for students who wish to work in cybersecurity for government.
Benefits
- Full-time UMBC tuition and mandatory fees paid.
- Personal Stipend $25,000 - $34,000/yr depending on academic level.
- Professional Development: $6,000/yr for certifications, equipment, conferences, and more.
- Easier access to exciting and challenging cybersecurity jobs in the federal government.
- SFS Scholars will also engage in at least one paid summer internship with a federal government agency.
Additionally, SFS Scholars have opportunities to carry out mentored research projects at UMBC research labs, including our Cyber Defense Lab (CDL), to expand their knowledge in the field. After graduation, SFS scholars must serve in a cybersecurity role for a federal agency in a cybersecurity position for each year of their SFS funding.
Application Criteria
- Applicants must be US citizens or lawful permanent residents (citizens preferred)
- Full-time rising juniors, MS, MPS, or Ph.D. students in cybersecurity-related programs at UMBC (including CMSC, CMPE, IS, CYBR). CMSC students (both BS and MS) must be enrolled in the CMSC cybersecurity track.
- Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0.
- Must agree to comply with NSF, OPM, SFS, and UMBC policies regarding the SFS program.
- Must agree to conduct at least one summer internship with the federal government while an SFS Scholar.
- Must agree to work for the government after graduation for each year of scholarship funding received. Failure to obtain government employment will result in having to pay back the entire amount. Government is broadly defines as federal, state, local, or tribal (federal preferred).
- Must not have anything in their background that would disqualify them from obtaining a federal government security clearance.
Action
If you're interested in cybersecurity, have a GPA of 3.0 or more, want to be part of an elite industry-centric nationwide scholarship program, and pursue a career in cybersecurity with the federal government, we want to hear from you!
Additional details
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Sun, 05 Feb 2023 15:24:03 -0500
Dr. LaBerge Wins Prestigious Award
2022 winner of EUROCAE Global Harmonization Award
Dr. Chuck LaBerge, Professor of the Practice of CSEE
at UMBC and immediate past Chair of RTCA SC-222, has been named the 2022 winner
of EUROCAE Global Harmonization Award for his "commitment and excellent
contributions to EUROCAE WG-82/RTCA SC-222 New Air-Ground Data Link
Technologies." The award, which was
announced at the 2022 EUROCAE Symposium in Warsaw in April, 2022, was presented
on behalf of the EUROCAE Council by Mr. Al Secan, Vice President of RTCA, Inc.
at the quarterly meeting of the RTCA Program Management Committee on September
15, 2022. In his comments during the
original video presentation of the award in April, Mr. Secen commented on "[Dr.
LaBerge's] ability and skill in leading the committee through a rose garden
full of thorny issues."
Dr. LaBerge has participated in RTCA, EUROCAE, and
ICAO standards-setting activities since 1976, playing a significant role in the
development of more than 16 standards, plus nearly that number of revisions and
updates to account for changing technology.
These standards include those for all of the safety-related digital
communications used by modern airliners, including HFDL, VDL Mode 2, VDL Mode
3, Inmarsat and Iridium satellite communications for both data and voice. In addition, he was responsible for the
interference analysis that forms the basis for the standards that permit use of
WiFi onboard passenger-carrying aircraft.
From October 2008 through July 2021, he served as the chair of RTCA
SC-222 Aeronautical Mobile Satellite (Route) Service systems which developed
multiple standards (and revisions) for systems and equipment used " ... to ensure safety
and regularity of flight on national and international air routes." SC-222's work was conducted in collaboration
with EUROCAE WG-82 on New Air-Ground Data Link Technologies, chaired by Dr.
Armin Schlereth of the DFS (the German equivalent to the FAA.)
Dr. LaBerge is the recipient of the 2018 UMBC College
of Engineering and Information Technology award for Excellence in Teaching and
the 2020 University System of Maryland Board of Regents Award for Teaching
Excellence. He teaches a variety of
professional practice and communications-related courses in the Computer
Engineering program.
EUROCAE was founded as the European Organization for
Civil Aviation Electronics in 1963 with the object to develop standards for
European civil aviation. It plays an important role in coordinating European
and global standardization activities.
In recent years, an increasing number of EUROCAE Working Groups work
collaboratively with their RTCA counterparts.
RTCA was founded as the Radio Technical Committee for
Aeronautics in 1935, RTCA has provided the foundation for many modern technical
advances in aviation. An independent Standards Development Organization (SDO),
RTCA's comprehensive products serve as the basis for government certification
of equipment used by the tens of thousands of aircraft flying daily through the
world's airspace. In recent years, an
increasing number of RTCA Special Committees work collaboratively with their
EUROCAE counterparts.
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talk: Validation of the Cybersecurity Curriculum Assessment
12-1 Fri February 3, Dr. Geoffrey Herman, Univ. of Illinois
The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents
Validation of the Cybersecurity Curriculum Assessment
Geoffrey L. Herman
Severns Teaching Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12-1pm, Friday, 3 February 2023, via WebEx
Joint work with Alan T. Sherman, Linda Oliva, Peter Peterson, Shan Huang, and Enis Golaszewski. This work earned the designation of one of the best papers in the Computing Education Research Track at the 2023
SIGCSE Technical Symposium.
Since 2015, the Cybersecurity Assessment Tools (CATS) project has been developing two research instruments to measure how well students learn cybersecurity concepts: the Cybersecurity Concept Inventory (CCI) and the Cybersecurity Curriculum Assessment (CCA). The CCI measures student conceptual knowledge after a first course in cybersecurity, whereas the CCA measures student knowledge after a full curriculum on cybersecurity. In this talk, we will discuss our development process of both assessment tools. We will discuss how we identified the critical subset of cybersecurity topics to include on the assessments and how we constructed the items on the assessment. We will then focus on our administration of the CCA to 193 students from seven colleges and universities across the United States. We present qualitative and statistical evidence for why the CCA can be validly used for measuring student knowledge of cybersecurity. In particular, we will show how items on the CCA identify common student misconceptions and how the CCA is the most informative assessment tool developed by computing education researchers.
Dr. Geoffrey L. Herman is the Severns Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was the 2020 recipient of the IEEE Education Society Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award and the 2022 recipient of the Scott H. Fisher Computer Science Teaching Award. He helped found the Grainger College of Engineering's Strategic Instructional Innovations Program, which has been empowering faculty innovation in teaching for over ten years and has provided seed funding that has led to several millions of dollars in external grant funding and hundreds of research papers. His research focuses on how students learn engineering and computing concepts and studying processes for creating systemic change in how engineering and computer science are taught in college settings. His research on student misconceptions in programming was awarded the best paper in the first 50 years of the ACM Special Interest Group, Computer Science Education. Email:
glherman@illinois.edu.
Host: Alan T. Sherman,
sherman@umbc.edu. Support for this event was provided in part by the National Science Foundation under SFS grant DGE-1753681. The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab meets biweekly Fridays 12-1pm. All meetings are open to the public.
Upcoming CDL meetings: February 17, Andrea Ferketich (UMBC), Security of cyber-physical systems in UMBC's ILSB; March 3, Enis Goleszewski (UMBC), Channel binding in FIDO should not be optional. May 5, CSEE Research Day (Library 7th floor)
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Wed, 25 Jan 2023 21:11:02 -0500
Free ten-week AI4ALL Discover AI program
Open to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year undergraduates in all majors
UMBC and nonprofit AI4ALL have partnered to offer undergraduate students in any major who are not seniors the opportunity to apply to the College Pathways Discover AI program
HOW
Apply online by February 14, 2023
WHAT
Discover AI is a virtual program that provides students with a project-based introduction to computer science, machine learning, data, artificial intelligence, and tech careers through the lens of societal and ethical impact. In addition, students get access to AI industry leaders and are guided through a roadmap to cultivate a future career in the AI industry.
What are both the positive and negative implications of AI technology on society? How can (and does) AI affect communities in today's world? Through research, discussions, and reflection, you will explore the intersectionality of AI with other fields and articulate your own mindful perspective of AI. The program is facilitated at no cost to students.
Students that complete the program will emerge with actionable next steps in pursuing an academic or career path in AI and the opportunity to continue in the following semester to our second program, Apply AI and direct mentorship from industry leaders in the AI and tech industry from companies like Google, Capital One, Facebook, Slalom Consulting, Accenture, Pearson and more. At the end of the program, students receive a Certificate of Completion and access to the AI4ALL Changemakers community with additional resources, ongoing support and mentorship.
WHO
It's available for undergraduate first-year students, sophomores, and juniors with all coding and/or computing/AI levels, including everything from no experience to advanced. If you're a computing major, the program is a great supplement to your existing coursework. If you are not, we welcome you as well! If accepted, you will have the opportunity to learn more about artificial intelligence in a safe and thoughtful environment that offers you the chance to consider AI as a future career option and as a presence in your major industry/discipline. We recommend that students without a coding background take the first four modules for free here at EdX before the program begins. AI4ALL programs are designed to bring together and highlight voices that have been historically excluded and that will lead and shape the future of AI.
WHEN
The ten-week program starts on February 24 and includes both synchronous meetings on Fridays from 3:30 to 5:30 pm as well as asynchronous instruction.
GET MORE INFORMATION
Discover AI program has 30 minute online information sessions on 1/19, 1/23, 1/30, 2/2, 2/6, and 2/9. Click on the select a date button to register for one. You can also review the program's application for more details. Send email to ai4all@cs.umbc.edu if you still have questions.
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