This news tidpit is a little old, its from March 2015, but on Jeopardy! there was a category called "Science of Security." It was sponsored by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with video clues recorded there.  While cybersecurity was not part…

The New York Times profiled the NSA GenCyger program. This program funds organizations to hold cybersecurity summer camps for kids.  Attendance is free for the students and in 2015 there are 43 camps and 1,400 campers.  The Berekley Camp used…

The Science of Security (SoS) quarterly Lablet meeting, sponsored by NSA, was hosted by the Carnegie Mellon University Lablet on July 14 and 15, 2015.  Quarterly meetings are held to share research, coordinate, present interim findings, and…

Darpa annouced the 7 finalist for the Cyber Grand Challenge with a $2 million prize.

Dan Geer, one of the distingiushed experts of the SoS paper competition, wrote an article on science in cybersecurity http://www.lawfareblog.com/where-science-taking-us-cybersecurity

NSA posts news story on the ISEF Award https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/news_information/2015/NSA_Research_Supports_Next_Generation_of_Scientists_and_Engineers.shtml

Amazon increased their cut of from 10% to 20% for costs with Mechanical Turk.  This will lead to incrase costs for researchers and or decrease for Turkers(?) http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/23/amazons-mechanical-turk-fee-hike-irks-researchers/

The Washington Post published an article on a bit of the history of L0pht and how hackers back in 1998 testified to Congress that the Internet security was terribly broken.  And yet, it remains terribly broken. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/…

The University of Illinois will lead a new multidisciplinary center designed to help government and industry beef up the resilience of the nation's cyber infrastructure, including the power grid, telecommunications networks and transportation systems. It…

International Computer Science Institute and the University of California Berkeley are researching web browser messages.  They are working to make them less confusing.  The Firefox extension prompts surveys on triggered events.  …

The Cybersecurity Experimentation of the Future (CEF) is a community study to determine what infrastructures are needed to have the scientific experimental results for science.  The primary result of this effort will be a Strategic Plan for…

The Deter Project is a research project and a cyber experimental testbed.  It has the goal of  allowing for repeatable, scalable and scientifically verifiable experimentation -- for homeland security and critical infrastructure protection…