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🚨 New research from Georgia Tech reveals an AI “blind spot” that could let attackers quietly take control of self-driving vehicles. The findings highlight a critical need for stronger security as autonomous tech expands.
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Researchers Warn AI ‘Blind Spot’ Could Allow Attackers to Hijack Self-Driving Vehicles | College of Computing
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January 27, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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Georgia Tech wins the NSA Codebreaker Challenge for the fifth straight year.

Students earned nearly 300,000 points to take first place in the top division, highlighting the Institute’s leadership in hands-on cybersecurity education.

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Georgia Tech Wins 5th Straight NSA Codebreaker Challenge | College of Computing
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January 15, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Georgia Tech thought leadership on AI and infrastructure risk:

Ann Dunkin, Distinguished Professor at Georgia Tech and former CIO of the U.S. Dept. of Energy and EPA, warns that AI’s power demands are colliding with grid instability. 1/2
January 12, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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The #AIxCC trophy is home in Atlanta!
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December 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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🚑 Big news from Georgia Tech’s School of Cybersecurity and Privacy!

The team just received up to $12M from ARPA-H to build H-VIPER, a new system that helps hospitals proactively find and fix cyber vulnerabilities. 1/3
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December 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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🎓 Meet a first-of-its-kind Yellow Jacket: Kyle Grisamore — the first person to earn both an MBA and an MS in Cybersecurity at Georgia Tech! 🔐📈 1/4
December 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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The School of Cybersecurity and Privacy raised $2,110 for @GeorgiaTech’s Klemis Kitchen, helping fight food insecurity on campus 💛

Led by Mary Helen Hayes, SCP faculty & staff filled two cars with groceries — an inspiring act of #ProgressAndService.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Peter Swire, J.Z. Liang Chair in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, has been recognized by the policy organization IAPP for his decades of leadership in privacy!

Read more about Swire's career as a leader in privacy: www.linkedin.com/pulse/25-lea...
25 leaders, 25 moments at 25 years: Peter Swire
The last decade saw not one but two invalidations of major trans-Atlantic data flow arrangements by the Court of Justice of the European Union — first to EU-U.S.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Every winning team has its unsung hero — and for Georgia Tech’s Team Atlanta, that’s Elijah Mastinu.

The SCP admin pro helped power the team’s AI Cyber Challenge victory with tireless behind-the-scenes work. 🏆

Read more ➡️ www.cc.gatech.edu/news/unsung-...
The Unsung Hero Behind Team Atlanta’s AI Cyber Challenge Victory | College of Computing
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November 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Congratulations to the winners of our second annual Staff Pumpkin Painting Contest!

In first place: The Snoopy Pumpkin 🥇
In second place: The Sugar Skull Pumpkin 🥈

A huge thank you to our staff for sharing this project with us and a special thanks to everyone who voted!
October 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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🚨 Breaking: #cybersecurity #researchers built a cheap DDR5 memory interposer that can read DRAM traffic and extract TEE attestation keys from Intel & AMD — even forge TDX quotes. Hardware-backed confidential computing isn’t safe from physical attacks.

Read the paper: tee.fail
TEE.fail: Breaking Trusted Execution Environments via DDR5 Memory Bus Interposition
Breaking Trusted Execution Environments via DDR5 Memory Bus Interposition
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October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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🔐 Georgia Tech researchers are pushing us closer to a passwordless future!

Assistant Prof. Frank Li has earned an NSF CAREER award to advance secure, easy logins (think passkeys & FIDO2 tech) — and inspire the next gen of cybersecurity experts.

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New Research Will Move Us Closer to a Passwordless Society | College of Computing
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October 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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A record number of Georgia Tech research papers are being presented this week at one of the world's top security conferences!

Learn more about what will appear at the 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security here: lnkd.in/exFpe4-b
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October 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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🚨 Georgia Tech researchers warn Tile trackers put 88M+ users at risk.

🔎 Findings:

- Unencrypted IDs enable tracking
- Data may allow mass surveillance
- Anti-stalking tools easily bypassed
- Attackers could even frame users

Read more: www.wired.com/story/tile-t...
Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say
A team of researchers found that, by not encrypting the data broadcast by Tile tags, users could be vulnerable to having their location information exposed to malicious actors.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Thanks to the tireless dedication of our faculty, students, and staff, Georgia Tech has once again claimed the No. 2 spot on the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges #rankings in #cybersecurity undergraduate education!

Read more about the rankings below: news.gatech.edu/news/2025/09...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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A huge thank you to Dmitri Alperovitch for visiting SCP and speaking to our students! Dmitri is Cybersecurity and Geopolitics Thought Leader as well as the first graduate of Georgia Tech’s Information Security master’s degree!

It was an honor to have you on campus!
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September 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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🚨 News Alert! 🚨

Georgia Tech Assistant Professor Ryan Shandler has received a DARPA Young Faculty Award to lead a two-year study on the psychological and societal impacts of cyberattacks. 1/3
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September 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Every year, the world’s best #hackers, #programmers, side-channel exploiters, and #cyber practitioners gather in Las Vegas to put their skills to the test at #DefCon, the community’s largest annual convention.

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Georgia Tech Leads the Way – Again – at Premier Global Hacking Competition | College of Computing
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August 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Some snapshots from the first week of classes at SCP!
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August 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Today is Dr. Michael Bailey’s last day as chair, but it’s not goodbye! He will be staying on as a professor and will teach CS 8803 Online Trust and Safety and CS 6250 Computer Networks this fall at Georgia Tech Europe.
August 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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We’re here and leaving our mark!
Ready for AIxCC!
August 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Tomorrow, a new era of cybersecurity software will spring out of the Mojave Desert as the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge comes to a close. The cyber reasoning systems developed by the participating teams- including the Georgia Tech affiliated Team Atlanta- will become open source technologies. 1/3
August 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Summer Update from SCP!

We’re thrilled to share that Regents’ Entrepreneur Mustaque Ahamad has been appointed Interim Chair of the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy! 1/4
Cybersecurity Professor Brings Decades of Experience to Role as Interim School Chair | School of Cybersecurity and Privacy
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July 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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What are the security risks for decentralized currency? That's what Computer Science Ph.D. student Mingyi Liu and her colleagues set out to determine when they surveyed nearly 500 crypto investors to identify common mistakes among traders. Read the full piece in The Conversation U.S.: bit.ly/4jpuS8V
Decentralized finance is booming − and so are the security risks. My team surveyed nearly 500 crypto investors and uncovered the most common mistakes
Researchers identified 5 major security pitfalls – and how to steer clear of them.
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May 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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🚨 Article Alert:

SCP and ECE Associate Professor Brendan Saltaformaggio co-authored a piece with ECE Ph.D. Student David Oygenblik in @us.theconversation.com

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