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Could censorship end the internet as we know it? Not if Roya Ensafi can help it.

The papers dealt with issues of accessibility, privacy, and consent in technology.

Election security expert J. Alex Halderman dissects Antrim County’s election debacle to help future contests go more smoothly.

A new wireless system can sense when N95 facemasks are properly decontaminated in moist-heat.

A Q&A with Kevin Fu, who will help protect software that saves lives at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.

The longtime advocate and leading researcher in medical device security heads to Washington for a one-year term.

Microphones that “hear” light; microprocessors that “tell” us secrets; self-driving cars that “see” fake objects; sensors that “feel” the wrong temperature. Our devices are under attack in new, increasingly sophisticated ways. Security researchers at CSE are exploring the limits of hardware and finding new, sobering vulnerabilities in our computers and homes.

How automated guarantees that our most complex programs are secure and trustworthy can save us time, money, and anxiety.

Today, over 225 million websites are protected by free certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt.

Censored Planet is releasing technical details for other researchers and for activists.

The awards were distributed to 18 different primary investigators.

Expert advice for voting in an unprecedented election.

The system automatically proves the trustworthiness of a hardware design, outperforming the competition in nearly every category.

The new fellowship program was designed to study the effects of connected products and services.

Prof. Roya Ensafi and PhD candidate Reethika Ramesh led organizing efforts for USENIX’s Tenth Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet.

A new secure code is needed to protect private information from the power of quantum computing.

The two organizations will connect their membership and partner networks to work on advancing security for life-saving devices.

“The technology can give users the confidence they deserve when reusing respirators or other PPE.”

The upcoming presidential election in the middle of a pandemic has jurisdictions exploring new technologies. They’re not secure.

The symposium highlighted new developments in computer architecture, and included a session on how the center’s research can contribute to limiting the impact of pandemics.

The projects impact voting systems, physical sensors, integrated circuit fabrication, and multiple microarchitectural side-channel vulnerabilities.

Collaborative website launched while U-M researchers continue advanced testing.

Goel designs algorithms that can automatically demonstrate the correctness of hardware systems.

Vehicles that perceive obstacles that aren’t really there could cause traffic accidents.

The team says their framework can scalably and semi-automatically monitor the use of filtering technologies for censorship at global scale.

The team will develop a secure, data-intensive network solution to effectively transport extremely high volumes of research data on and off campus.

Researchers carried out the first study on voter behavior with electronic assistive devices, found 93% missed incorrect ballots.

A Q&A with J. Alex Halderman, who co-founded the nonprofit organization.

The nation is using inexpensive commodity equipment to block 170K domains on more than 1K privately-owned ISPs.

The newly discovered microphone vulnerability allows attackers to remotely inject inaudible and invisible commands into voice assistants using light.

The new system is designed to save security researchers time and effort spent reverse-engineering the message format of every vehicle they study.

Technology pioneered by Michigan researchers can circumvent many effective website blocking tools

Researchers designed three new systems to speed up code at several key bottlenecks.

The researchers demonstrated that an adversary could remotely manipulate the temperature sensor measurements without tampering with the targeted system or triggering automatic temperature alarms.

Up to this point, no attacks had been discovered targeting a car’s LiDAR system—but a major new finding from researchers at the University of Michigan has demonstrated what that might look like.

The research generated a chatbot to help users sift through important details in privacy policies.

The research suggests that common blacklist-based prevention systems are ineffective.

Defibrillator security paper receives Test of Time Award from IEEE Security & Privacy

Bertacco is a key leader in efforts to improve the representation of women in computer science and develop more extensive cross-cultural connections within the department.

Chen’s dissertation research was dedicated to developing proactive defense approaches to the new security challenges of a hyper-connected world.

Halderman will work to further educate lawmakers, future cybersecurity experts, and the public about how to ensure that election results can relied upon and verified

Censored Planet could provide new insight into the flow of online information

SkyCore is a complete software solution to deploying mobile networks on unmanned drones

A team of researchers unearthed new data on geographic denial of access to web content in a new paper.

A large quantum computer could retroactively decrypt almost all internet communication ever recorded.

Profs. Jia Deng, Roya Ensafi, and Manos Kapritsos have been selected to receive Google Faculty Research Awards.

Automated chatbot uses artificial intelligence to weed through fine print