The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

News & Blogs

CERIAS 2011 Symposium

Tue, April 05, 2011

The symposium is over.

Thank you to all those who attended and watched the sessions online!

http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/site/symposium2011



Spafford comments on RSA breach

Wed, March 30, 2011CERIAS Media Citings

Eugene Spafford tells Federal News Radio that, typically, it’s impossible to tell how long a breach has been going on.













Spafford comments on AT&T iPad hacking

Thu, January 20, 2011CERIAS Media Citings

“Having email addresses by itself is not much of a threat: people give them out all the time, and spammers can and do guess them easily,” said Eugene Spafford, executive director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security at Purdue University.

“It is more an issue if you can pair addresses with places of employment, such as government agencies,” he added. “Then it becomes possible to collect further information, and perhaps get a toehold into Google, Bing or other information sources.”





U.S. Government, Businesses Are Poorly Prepared for Cyber Attacks, Experts Say at AAAS

Mon, December 13, 2010CERIAS Media Citings

Spafford said academic specialists have been warning for more than 25 years about vulnerabilities in computer systems that can lead to identify theft, credit card fraud and other security intrusions.