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Department of Cybersecurity
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July 22, 2024
Monroe County grapples with widespread outages after global glitch disrupts services
WHAM-TV talk with Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, about the worldwide Crowdstrike outage.
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July 19, 2024
Global IT outage
News Radio WHAM 1180 chats with Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, about the global IT outage hitting industries from travel to finance across the world. (Interview starts at the 15-minute mark.)
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July 11, 2024
My Phone Was Cloned
AARP interviews Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, about how to prevent criminals from taking over your phone and draining bank accounts. (This content may require a subscription to view.)
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June 25, 2024
RIT researchers develop cybersecurity protocols for future smart transportation systems
RIT cybersecurity researchers are preparing connected vehicle networks for the next stage of cybersecurity—the post-quantum era. The team, in RIT’s ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, is highlighting how current cryptographic methods are vulnerable to attacks enabled by emerging quantum computers.
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June 11, 2024
Mount Morris victim scammed out of $300k; 2 suspects from Chicago arrested
WROC-TV talks with Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, about how to avoid being scammed.
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May 15, 2024
RIT researchers expect a rise in deepfake use in political campaigns
Spectrum News interviews Christopher Schwartz, research scientist in the Department of Cybersecurity, and Kelly Wu, computing and information sciences Ph.D. student, about generating and detecting artificial intelligence deepfakes.
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April 25, 2024
Informed voting in the age of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) has entered the election—globally. To help voters navigate these advancements in social media, deepfakes, manipulated images, and cybersecurity, a few RIT experts are weighing in.
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April 22, 2024
Global Business: AI deepfakes becoming new tech battlefront
CGTN America interviews Matthew Wright, chair of the Department of Cybersecurity, about the ongoing battle against AI deepfakes and how tech companies are combating deepfakes.
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April 5, 2024
New study investigates illegal child sexual abuse material and anonymity on Tor network
With the help of multidisciplinary researchers from around the globe, Billy Brumley is investigating the availability of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in order to better understand and combat its widespread dissemination.
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March 28, 2024
RIT professor serves on prosecution team for landmark trial against operator of Bitcoin Fog
Divya Ramjee served as a member of the prosecution team for a criminal case against the operator of Bitcoin Fog. On March 12, a jury found the defendant, Roman Sterlingov, “guilty of operating among the longest-running and most prolific bitcoin money laundering services on the darknet.”
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March 21, 2024
Rochester TikTok creator faces uncertainty as house bill threatens nationwide ban
WHAM-TV talks with Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, about the possible ban.
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March 18, 2024
Rochester experts weigh in on U.S. House of Representatives passing a bill that could ban TikTok
WROC-TV talks with Jonathan Weissman, principal lecturer in the Department of Cybersecurity, about the implications.