Still Life
University Park Airport Emergency Response Exercise
Commencement across Penn State: Spring 2012
Spring commencement 2012 under way
Penn State, Moroccan students problem-solve together
Finals Week Spring Semester 2012
Painting the Lines at Beaver Stadium
Did They Get It Right? - RedTails
Iconic Penn State elm taken down over spring break 2012
We ... are Penn State (December 19, 2011)
Disease stricken matching elm tree slated for removal
Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone
A computer in the Outreach Market Research and Data office recently was found to be communicating with a bot controller, exposing 15,806 Social Security numbers to possible compromise. A 'bot' is a type of malware that allows an attacker to gain complete control over the affected computer. The computer had at one time contained a database of Social Security numbers (SSNs) for official use by the University. The database was removed when Penn State stopped using SSNs in 2005, but an archived copy remained undetected in the computer's cache. As with other cases at Penn State, the University has no evidence that unauthorized individuals accessed the information, but those affected should be alert in the event that an individual attempts to use their identity. (more)
Self-propagating worms are malicious computer programs, which, after being released, can spread throughout networks without human control, stealing or erasing hard drive data, interfering with pre-installed programs and slowing, even crashing, home and work computers. Now a new code, or algorithm, created by Penn State researchers targets the "stealthiest" of these worms, containing them before an outbreak can occur. (more)
Asesh K. Das, professor of computer science in Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Business and Computer Technologies, recently presented a technical paper at a Cybersecurity and Intelligence Workshop conducted by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Oak Ridge is a science and technology facility managed for the U.S. Department of Energy by UT-Battelle LLC. (more)
Penn State will launch a new interdisciplinary research center focused on the science of communication networks with approximately $35.5 million in funding over 10 years from the Army Research Laboratory. The Communication Networks Research Center, part of the new Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance, will perform foundational research on network science. The research focuses on the interplay among the social/cognitive, information and communication networks. (more)
Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology was recently designated an Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence paving the way for IST students to combat cybersecurity threats at the national level when they graduate. (more)
The career of Col. Jake Graham, U.S. Marine Corps (retired) and a professor in Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology, has seen him at the controls of an AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter and overseeing tactical nuclear weapons from a command post in Stuttgart, Germany, where he was on duty during the 9/11 attacks. This past academic year, Graham's first with IST, students in SRA 211 were immersed in an exercise called "Show Me the Money," which had them trying to thwart the intentions of destruction-bent terrorists by analyzing their associations with one another, as well as their financial transactions and communications. For the project, Graham, IST senior research associate, wove together fiction with a bracing dose of real people and detail. (more)
Penn State Altoona will implement a security and risk analysis baccalaureate degree (information and cybersecurity option) in the fall semester. This option includes a set of new courses that provides a sound overview of the theories, skills and technologies associated with network security, cyber threat defense, information warfare and critical infrastructure protection across multiple venues. (more)
The computer that once filled a room is now on your desktop, the memory is on your key chain, but there are still projects that require computing and storage capacity far beyond a room full of desktops. The Penn State Institute for CyberScience (ICS@PSU) aims to advance discovery through computing and information science. (more)
