Associate professor Daniel Tauritz has been named interim director of the Auburn Cyber Research Center, according to an announcement from Dean of Engineering Christopher B. Roberts. In this role, Tauritz will lead more than a dozen faculty and staff affiliated with the center, which integrates cutting-edge engineering technology with…
Planned August celebrations to recognize Auburn University spring and summer 2020 graduates have been indefinitely postponed due to recent interstate travel restrictions and large in-person event concerns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — Twitter confirmed that it suffered a “coordinated social engineering attack” that allowed hackers to temporarily take control of some of the most influential voices on the social media platform.
Auburn University’s McCrary Institute is partnering with Air University to examine challenges related to cyber and critical infrastructure security, for the purpose of advancing U.S. national security. The two entities will combine their extensive expertise on national security issues to spur dialogue and action on pressing problems and practical…
We recommend that America adopt a multilayered air protection and mitigation strategy toprovide safe fresh indoor air across the 16 designated critical infrastructures. Coupled withtraditional public health guidance including testing, contact tracing, social distancing, andisolation of people with known disease or exposure, we further recommend…
On an average day, cybercriminals visiting the Darkode darkweb forum would expect to enter an underground, invitation-only digital marketplace to buy, sell, and trade malware, access to botnets, and stolen personal information. However, in July 2015, users were instead confronted with the emblems of the U.S. Federal…
Today is the first day of hurricane season and NOAA is predicting it to be a busy one, with an above-average 6 to 10 hurricanes. Meanwhile the federal government’s hurricane response agency, FEMA, is currently leading the response to coronavirus. Given the likelihood we will soon…
Thirty national cyber and critical infrastructure security leaders are joining the McCrary Institute as senior fellows, adding their expertise toward development of practical solutions to national security challenges. This select group includes senior leaders with a depth of experience in government, private industry, and academe.…
Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is safeguarding the nation in many ways – to include a priority focus in the months ahead on economic security. “Economic security is really homeland security,” said Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf in…
