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Lab member Kiron Lebeck and his group won this week’s department TGIF competition, building the strongest gumdrop-and-toothpick bridge. These photos document the final collapse of the bridge.

UW CSE Security Lab co-director Franzi Roesner spoke about the “security mindset” and about the privacy concerns associated with third-party web tracking at the Pacific Science Center’s March Teen Science Cafe. Thanks to all of the attendees for their smart and insightful questions!

Last night was the UW CSE TGIF Chess Competition. Lab member Anna Kornfeld Simpson tied for the grand prize, out of 16 total competitors. It was quite an amazing, intense competition. Lab member Kiron Lebeck also swiftly annihilated one of his advisors, Yoshi Kohno, as can be seen on the right. Yoshi’s in check mate, but neither side lost any pieces in the battle. Immediately after his victory, lab member Tope Oluwafemi called Kiron to discuss research, as can also be seen in the photo.

UW CSE Security Lab co-director Yoshi Kohno has been awarded the Short-Dooley endowed professorship. See the full announcement here. Congratulations Yoshi!

Get a sneak peek at this Sunday’s 60 Minutes episode in which UW CSE researchers remotely compromise a car driven by Leslie Stahl, part of a segment examining cybersecurity threats and the Internet of Things. (See a photo of the set-up at right.)

During the segment featured in the CBS preview, the head of DARPA’s Information Innovation Office, Dan Kaufman, DARPA Program Manager Kathleen Fisher, and UW Ph.D. alum Karl Koscher demonstrate how hackers can control various functions of a motor vehicle. The demo is based on research conducted by a team from UW CSE (Alexei Czeskis, Yoshi Kohno, Karl Koscher and Franzi Roesner) and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego.

Get a sneak peek at the 60 Minutes episode in the CBS preview here – the preview is all UW CSE, all the time!

Read more about the automotive security collaboration between UW CSE and UCSD here.

Tune into your local CBS affiliate Sunday, February 8th at 7:00 pm to catch the full segment!

Congratulations Temitope Oluwafemi! Tope passed his PhD General Exam today. Next step: His PhD Final Defense. Congrats Tope!

National Science Foundation Assistant Director for CISE, Jim Kurose, testified to the House Science & Technology Subcommittee yesterday about cybersecurity. The report cites the UW CSE Security and Privacy lab efforts on computer security for automobiles and medical devices. Read the testimony here

The US Federal Trade Commission — like the UW CSE Security and Privacy Lab — is interested in the Internet of Things. The FTC just released a report, titled “Internet of Things: Privacy and Security in a Connected World“, that discusses UW CSE Security and Privacy research and quotes lab member Yoshi Kohno.

The UW CSE Security and Privacy Lab’s co-director, Professor Franzi Roesner, was honored with the UW CSE William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award. Congratulations Franzi! Very well deserved!

The Forum on Cyber Resilience is a newly-established National Academies roundtable. Professor Yoshi Kohno, UW CSE Security and Privacy lab co-director, joins as an inaugural member. The Forum on Cyber Resilience will facilitate and enhance the exchange of ideas among scientists, practitioners, and policy makers concerned with urgent and important issues related to the resilience of the nation’s computing and communications systems, including the Internet, other critical infrastructures, and commercial system.