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Would you make a good Information Detective? Explaining the career of an Open Source Intelligence Professional, featuring Mary Ann Francis

Have you ever wondered about privacy and the data that operating systems, search engines, and social networks collect about you?

New Co-Principal Investigator Added to SFS Grant: Charles Harry

The CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS) grant is funded through the National Science Foundation to provide educational and profes …

Alumni Spotlight: Keys to Succeeding in the Forensic Investigation Field – Pranali Shetty, MIM ‘15

Forensic investigation is a challenging field where information plays a key role, from cyber threat investigations to extracting eviden …

OneZero: Data Thieves Are Targeting Dead People’s Social Media Accounts (featuring Jessica Vitak)

Even people who do have legitimate access to a dead person’s account could misuse it warns Dr. Vitak.

Alumni Spotlight: Keys to Succeeding in the Forensic Investigation Field – Pranali Shetty, MIM ‘15

Forensic investigation is a challenging field where information plays a key role, from cyber threat investigations to extracting eviden …

WUSA: Apple, Google Team Up for Contact Tracing Tech to Help Fight Coronavirus (featuring Jen Golbeck)

WUSA anchor Gio Insignares talks with Dr. Jen Golbeck about Apple and Google working together to create a new technology that would let …

Maryland Today: Virtual Meetings, Real Disruptions: Zoombombing Trolls (featuring Jessica Vitak)

'Zoombombing' Trolls Target Online Meetings at Universities, Schools, More

UMD iSchool and Google/Chronicle Utilize Commercial Data Mining Techniques to Develop Cybercrime Predictor

Led by UMD iSchool researcher and professor Dr. Charlie Harry, the team is using machine-learning methods to extract socioeconomic char …

ABC Denver: Data privacy protection at forefront of new proposed federal law (featuring Jen Golbeck)