Cybersecurity News

• UC Santa Cruz named National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research
  October 6, 2025
  The recognition highlights UC Santa Cruz’s research and educational contributions to advancing cybersecurity.
• Engineering undergrad is fastest to solve national codebreaker challenge for the second year in a row
  March 26, 2025
  Astra Tsai was the fastest student to solve the National Security Administration’s codebreaker challenge, which stimulates real-world security cases
• Computer engineering student builds cybersecurity solutions for Joby Aviation
  November 14, 2024
  UC Santa Cruz Computer Engineering student Shipra Ithal participated in an internship at Joby Aviation via the CITRIS Workforce Innovation Program
• 2024 CITRIS Interdisciplinary Innovation Program supports wide range of campus research
  October 15, 2024
  The CITRIS Interdisciplinary Innovation Program (I2P) provides UC Santa Cruz Principal Investigators with funding for projects focussed on developing information technology solutions to significant societal challenges.
• UCSC students discover, help patch cybersecurity flaw for free laundry
  July 2, 2024
  UCSC students worked with the company that provides the app and the machines, called CSC Serviceworks, to help patch the cybersecurity flaws that could let millions of customers run loads of laundry for free.
• Ukraine blackouts caused by malware attacks warn against evolving cybersecurity threats to the physical world
  May 17, 2024
  A new paper presents the first study of how two major malware attacks in Ukraine operated and interacted with the physical power system equipment to cause blackouts.
• Widespread machine learning methods behind ‘link prediction’ are performing very poorly, study shows
  February 13, 2024
  New research from UC Santa Cruz Professor of Computer Science and Engineering C. “Sesh” Seshadhri published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences establishes that the metric used to measure link prediction performance is missing crucial information, and link prediction tasks are performing significantly worse than popular literature indicates.
• UCSC computer science student selected into Major League Hacking’s top 50 list
  August 15, 2023
  Rising second-year computer science student Marina Lee was chosen out of a community of 150,000 hackers for her outstanding work in developing accessible STEM education programming and building an inclusive hacking community.
• UC Santa Cruz engineers join major transportation cybersecurity project
  May 23, 2023
  Researchers from UC Santa Cruz will play an important role in protecting the United States’ transportation systems against cybersecurity threats as part of a new national center
• Computer engineering research prompts bug fixes, updates to major GPU frameworks
  March 21, 2023
  A new suite of GPU tests developed by Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Tyler Sorensen and his students led to changes to an important GPU framework for programming web browsers.

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