- 22 professors produced from Cyber Security Lab: A set of professor positions
have been taken (elsewhere) by former graduate students and post-docs of
Cyber Security Lab. See the People
page for details.
- (2022)
Cyber Security Lab has published a first Handbook of “AI for Cybersecurity” use cases: https://psucybersecuritylab.github.io
- (2022)
Alumnus Qiang Zeng (PhD, 2009-2014) named an NSF CAREER Award winner.
- (2022)
Alumnus Jun Xu (PhD, 2013-2018) joined University of Utah School of
Computing as a tenure-track faculty member.
- (2021)
Dean’s Faculty Honor Award:
Prof. Liu received the College of IST 2021 Dean’s Faculty Honor
Award.
- (2021)
Alumni News: Sadegh Farhang (PhD, 2015-2021) joined Carnegie Mellon
University (CMU) as a post-doc.
- (2021)
Alumni News: Ping Chen (post-doc, 2017-20) joined Fudan University
(China) as a tenure-track faculty member.
- (2021)
Alumni News: Wei Zhou (joint PhD training with University of CAS,
2019-21) joined Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China) as
a tenure-track faculty member.
- (2020)
Grant: Together with Prof.
Song and Prof. Ye at University of Georgia and Prof. Shi at Georgia
Institute of Technology, Prof. Liu received a new NSF SaTC Medium award
on intrusion detection and diagnosis in multi-state manufacturing
systems. The total amount of this grant is $1,200,000.
- (2020)
Grant: Prof. Liu and Prof.
Sun at California State University are awarded a new NIST grant on
recognizing APT attacks.
- (2020)
DSN 10-Year Test of Time award:
A paper co-authored by Prof. Liu was selected this year (i.e., 2020) as
one of the two winners of the Test-of-Time Award from the IEEE/IFIP
International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN).
- (2020)
Editors-in-Chief appointment: Prof.
Liu is appointed the Editors-in-Chief for Journal of Computer Security.
- (2019)
Prof. Liu, together with researchers at IAI, Inc. and UIUC, is awarded a
new Army Research Office STTR grant on ransomware defense. The total
amount of this grant is $1,000,000.
- (2019)
Prof. Liu serves as a Co-PI for a new CSRE Seed Grant on conducting a
privacy study on Android Auto in the context of EU GDPR.
- (2019)
Prof. Liu serves as a Co-PI for a new CSRE Seed Grant on developing an
Organizational Governance Framework for Genomics.
- (2018)
Alumni News: Le Guan (post-doc, 2015-18) joined University of Georgia as
a tenure-track assistant professor.
- (2018)
Alumni News: Jun Xu (PhD, 2013-18) joined Stevens Institute of
Technology as a tenure-track assistant professor.
- (2018)
Alumni News: Meng Yu is appointed to Department Head and Robert Miner
Endowed Chair in Computer Science at Roosevelt University.
- (2018)
Prof. Liu is awarded a regular NSF SaTC grant on insecurity analysis of
mobile middleware.
- (2018)
Alumni News: Qiang Zeng (PhD, 2009-2014) joined University of South
Carolina as a tenure-track assistant professor.
- (2018)
Alumni News: Fengjun (Cathy) Li received tenure and promotion to
Associate Professor at University of Kansas.
- (2018)
Prof. Liu served as the Program Co-Chair for IEEE CNS 2018.
- (2018)
Prof. Liu served as the founding Executive Editor in Chief for a
SpringerOpen journal titled Cybersecurity.
- (Dec
2017) Best
Paper Award at ACSAC 2017 (2 out of 244 submissions):
·
Le Guan,
Shijie Jia, Bo Chen, Fengwei Zhang, Bo Luo, Jingqiang Lin, Peng Liu, Xinyu
Xing and Luning Xia, “Supporting Transparent Snapshot for Bare-metal
Malware Analysis on Mobile Devices,” in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual
Conference on Computer Security Applications, ACSAC '17, 2017.
- (July
2017) Lannan Luo, who recently defended her PhD thesis, will join the
CSE Department at University of
South Carolina as a tenure-track assistant professor in fall 2017.
Congrats!
- (July
2017) Dr. Bo Chen, a post-doc alumni of our lab, will join the CS
Department at Michigan Tech
University as a tenure-track assistant professor in fall 2017.
Congrats!
- (July
2017) Prof. Xinyu Xing has won a new grant from NSF on memory corruption
driven post-mortem program analysis. Congrats!
- (2017)
One paper got accepted at Usenix
Security 2017. Congrats!
- (2017)
One paper got accepted at NDSS
2017. Congrats!
- (2017)
Two papers got accepted at ACM
MobiSys 2017. Congrats!
- (2017)
Two papers got accepted at DSN
2017. Congrats!
- (2016)
Five PhD students have graduated in 2016. Congrats!
·
Heqing Huang has joined the IBM T. J. Watson
Research Center as a research staff member
·
Chuangang Ren has joined Google Android Security
Teams
·
Xiaoyang Sun has joined California State
University as a tenure-track assistant professor
·
Chen Zhong has joined Indiana University at
Kokomo as a tenure-track assistant professor
·
Mingyi Zhao has joined Snapchat
- (Oct
2016) Two papers got accepted at ACM
CCS 2016.
- (Oct
2016) Best
Paper Runner-Up Award at IEEE CNS 2016.
·
Xiaoyan
Sun, Jun Dai, Peng Liu, Singhal, Anoop, John Yen, “Towards
Probabilistic Identification of Zero-day Attack Paths,” IEEE CNS, 2016.
- (September
2016) One paper got accepted at ACM
SenSys 2016.
- (July
2016) Three papers got accepted at ESORICS
2016.
- (April
2016) Alumni news: Dr. Xiaoqi Jia, an alumni (mentored by Professor Liu)
of our lab, has recently been promoted to a Full Professor at Chinese
Academy of Sciences Institute of Information Engineering. Congratulations
Dr. Jia!
- (Feb
2016) Alumni news: Dr. Kai Chen, a post-doc alumni (mentored by
Professor Liu) of our lab, has recently been promoted to a Full
Professor at Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Information
Engineering. Congratulations Dr. Chen!
- (Jan
2016) Alumni news: Dr. Jun Shao, a post-doc alumni (mentored by
Professor Liu) of our lab, has recently been promoted to a Full
Professor at Zhejiang Gongshang University in Hangzhou, China.
Congratulations Dr. Shao!
- (Oct
2015) Three papers got accepted at ACM
CCS 2015:
·
Jiang
Ming, Dongpeng Xu, Li Wang, and Dinghao Wu, “LOOP: Logic-Oriented
Opaque Predicate Detection in Obfuscated Binary Code”
·
Heqing
Huang, Sencun Zhu, Kai Chen, Peng Liu, “From System Services Freezing
to System Server Shutdown in Android: All You Need Is a Loop in an
Application”
·
Mingyi
Zhao, Jens Grossklags, Peng Liu, “An Empirical Study of Web
Vulnerability Discovery Ecosystems”
- (Aug
2015) Four papers got accepted at Usenix
Security 2015:
1.
Jiang Ming, Dinghao Wu, Gaoyao Xiao, Jun
Wang, and Peng Liu, “TaintPipe: Pipelined Symbolic Taint
Analysis”
2. Chuangang Ren, Yulong Zhang,
Hui Xue, Tao Wei, Peng Liu, "Towards Discovering and Understanding Task
Hijacking in Android"
3. Shuai Wang, Pei Wang, and
Dinghao Wu, “Reassembleable Disassembling”
4. Kai Chen, Peng Wang, Yeonjoon
Lee, Xiaofeng Wang, Nan Zhang, Heqing Huang, Wei Zou, Peng Liu, "Finding
Unknown Malice in 10 Seconds: Mass Vetting for New Threats at the Google-Play
Scale"
- (August
2015) Professor Xinyu Xing joined the Cyber Security Lab. Dr. Xing has
recently graduated from the research group of Prof. Wenke Lee at Georgia
Tech. Welcome Professor Xing!
- (July
2015) Qiang Zeng joined Temple University as a tenure-track assistant
professor in Computer Science. Congratulations Qiang!
- (2015)
Peng Liu received Penn State College of IST Senior Faculty Excellence in
Research Award.
Congratulations Prof. Liu!
- (2015)
Minghui Zhu (EE) and Peng Liu received $500K NSF grant on CPS security.
- (2015)
Anna Cinzia Squicciarini has received the NSF CAREER Award.
Congratulations Prof. Squicciarini!
- (Nov
2014) Award Nomination: Our
FSE’14 paper was nominated for the distinguished paper Award. FSE
is one of two finest conferences in the field of software engineering.
Congratulations Lannan, Jiang, Prof. Wu, Prof. Liu and Prof. Zhu!
- (Aug
2014) Alumni News: Jun Dai
has joined California State University as an Assistant Professor.
Congratulations Jun!
- (Aug
2014) New Grant: Prof. Peng
Liu received a new grant from NIST on secure cloud computing.
- (Aug
2014) New NSF Grants:
·
Prof. Peng Liu and Prof. Meng Yu at VCU received
a new SaTC grant on “Towards Agile and Privacy Preserving Cloud
Computing.”
·
Prof. Dongwon Lee, Prof. Peng Liu, Prof. Mary
Beth Rosson received a new TWC grant on “Privacy Protection in Social
Networks: Bridging the Gap between User Perception and Privacy
Enforcement.” This is a
collaborative research project jointly with a team led by Prof. Bo Luo at
Kansas University.
- (May
2014) Recent paper acceptance:
·
One paper led by Kai Chen was accepted to ICSE’14.
·
One paper led by Rui Wu and Ping Chen was
accepted to DSN’14.
·
One paper led by Wenhui Hu was accepted to WiSec’14.
·
One paper led by Fangfang Zhang was accepted to WiSec’14.
- (Jan
2014) Alumni News: Shengzhi
Zhang has joined Florida Institute of Technology as an Assistant
Professor. Congratulations Shengzhi!
- (Dec
2013) One paper led by Qiang Zeng and Dr. Rhee at NEC America Labs was
accepted by CGO’14.
- (Sept
2013) Code Release: The
source code of Cruiser is now
on Google code (http://code.google.com/p/cruiser-psu/).
Cruiser is a Linux shared library for highly efficient heap buffer
overflow detection through concurrent non-blocking monitoring of canaries.
The Cruiser paper is published on PLDI’11 (see the Publications page).
- (Sept
2013) Code Release: The
source code of Arbiter is now
released (http://www.personal.psu.edu/jow5222/arbiter/download.html). ARBITER is a run-time system aimed at fine-grained,
data-centric privilege separation in multithreaded applications. The
project website is here: http://www.personal.psu.edu/jow5222/arbiter/
- (June
2013) New Grant: Prof. Zhu,
Prof. Wu, and Prof. Liu have been awarded a new NSF grant on software
plagiarism and mobile app repackaging detection.
- (June
2013) Two papers were accepted by RAID;
one paper was accepted by ESORICS.
- (Jan
2013) New Grant: Prof.
Dinghao Wu and Prof. Peng Liu received an ONR grant ($423,000) on
“Towards Secure Lean Software.”
- (Dec
2012) Alumni News: Robert
Cole defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Robert!
- (Oct
2012) Alumni News: Xi Xiong
defended his PhD thesis and joined Amazon Cloud Computing Division.
Congratulations Xi!
- (August
2012) Alumni News: Meng Yu
received tenure at Virginia Commonwealth University. Congratulations Meng!
- (August
2012) New Grant: Prof.
Dinghao Wu and Prof. Peng Liu received a NSF Trustworthy Computing grant
($499,745) on “Software Cruising for Systems Security”.
- (August
2012) Internship: Qiang Zeng
returned from his summer intern at NEC Labs.
- (July
2012) Alumni News: Dr.
Shengzhi Zhang defended his thesis and joined Cisco.
- (June
2012) Alumni News: Dr. Jian
Liu defended his thesis and accepted an assistant professor position at
Nanjing Polytechnic University in China. Congratulations Jian!
- (March
2012) Alumni News: Yoon-Ho
Choi started his first day as an assistant professor at Kyonggi
University, Korea.
Congratulations Yoon-Ho!
- (March
2012) Alumni News: Donghai
Tian started his career as an assistant professor at Beijing Institute
of Technology, China. Congratulations Donghai!
- (Feb
2012) Best Paper Award: IEEE
CogSIMA 2012 paper “Experience-Based
Cyber Situation Recognition Using Relaxable Logic Patterns.” Congratulations Po-Chan, Prof.
Yen, and Prof. Liu!
- (Nov
2011) Paper accepted by NDSS-12:
A kernel cruising paper
written by Donghai Tian, Qiang Zeng, Dinghao Wu, P. Liu and C. Z.
Hu.
- (Nov
2011) Best Paper Award: Joint
work with Nanjing Unviersity in China: Replacement Attacks on Behavior Based Software Birthmark,
written by Zhi Xin et al., awarded by ISC 2011 (14th
Information Security Conference).
- (Oct
2011) Alumni News: Qijun Gu
has earned tenure at Texas State University. Congratulations Qijun!
- (August
2011) New Students: Welcome
MingYi Zhao, Gaoyao Xiao, and Chen Zhong to the Cyber Security Lab!
- (May
2011) Internships: During this
summer, Xi Xiong will work at Microsoft Research Seattle; Shengzhi Zhang
will work at Honeywell; and Qiang Zeng will work at IBM T. J. Watson.
- (April
2011) Grant: Prof. Peng Liu
received a component ITA grant (around $250,000) through a joint proposal
with IBM T. J. Watson.
- (Feb
2011) Alumni News: Dr.
Fengjun Li, who defended
her thesis in Dec. 2010, has accepted an Assistant Professor position at
University of Kansas (EECS dept.)
- Paper
accepted by PLDI-11: A software cruising paper written
by Qiang Zeng, Dinghao Wu, and Peng Liu.
- (Jan 2011) Grant: Professor Peng Liu is going to receive a DARPA grant on insider
mission identification, together with Boeing and RIT.
- (Dec 2010) Alumni News: Dr. Yoon-Chan
Jhi, who defended his thesis a few weeks ago, has joined Samsung.
- (Nov 2010) Press release: Professor
Peng Liu gave a talk titled "Security and Privacy Cannot be Taken
for Granted by the Cloud Computing Industry" at the Modern
Engineering & Technology Seminar (METS) in Taipei, Taiwan on Nov 8.
A main goal of this seminar is to let the Taiwan Government get advice
from experts in the US on critical economic development initiatives,
such as renovation of modern municipalities, green energy, cloud
computing, and sustainable health care. In the area of Cloud Computing,
three experts in the US are invited and Professor Liu is the only one
from academia. During the experts' visit to the President Office on Nov.
10, the summary report was handed to President Ma Ying-jeou. Photo with President Ma Ying-jeou
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- Paper
accepted by NDSS-11: A paper on protecting
commodity OS from untrusted extensions, written by Xi Xiong, Donghai
Tian, and Peng Liu.
- (July 2010)
Alumni News: Xiaoqi Jia
accepted an Assistant Professor position at the Software Institute of
the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- (April 2010)
Alumni News: Jun Shao accepted an Associate Professor
position at Zhejiang Gongshang University in Hangzhou, China.
- (Feb. 2010)
Scientific American News: A work on worms, done by Lunquan Li, Choi, Liu from IST
Cyber Security Lab and Kesidis from EE/CSE was storied in Scientific
American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=de-worming-software
- (Feb. 2010)
Liu to talk on IDGA summit: A talk on secure cloud computing on Feb 22 in
Washington D.C.
- (Feb. 2010)
Press Release: http://live.psu.edu/story/44246/nw3
- (Jan. 2010)
ARO MURI Website Launched: See http://ist.psu.edu/s2/cybersa/
- (Jan. 2010)
Alumni News: Meng Yu
accepted an Associate Professor position at Virginia Commonwealth
University.
- (Jan. 2010)
Job: Kun Bai accepted a post-doc research
fellow position at IBM T. J. Watson.
- (Jan. 2010)
Lions Center Lunch Seminar Launched: See http://faculty.ist.psu.edu/wu/lions-lunch/
- (Jan. 2010)
Paper accepted by INFOCOM’10: On anonymous Internet communications based
on “commutative path hopping” written by Fengjun Li, Bo Luo,
Peng Liu, and Chao-Hsien Chu.
- (Sept. 09)
New Faculty: Dr. Wu, an
expert on programming languages and software security, joined College of
IST from Microsoft Azure division.
- (Sept. 09)
Grant: Prof. Liu
won a NSF NeTS Grant on “Secure and Resilient Channel Allocation
in Multi-Radio Wireless Networks” together with Prof. Qijun Gu at
Texas State Univ. and Prof. Meng Yu at Western Illinois Univ.
- (Sept. 09)
Press Release: http://live.psu.edu/story/41383
- (Aug 09) Two papers accepted by
ACSAC-09: (1) An intrusion recovery paper written by
Xi Xiong, Xiaoqi Jia, and Peng Liu; (2) A system-call birthmark paper
written by Xinran Wang, Yoon-Chan Jhi, Sencun Zhu, and Peng Liu.
- (Aug 09) Grant: Professor Liu won a NSF Trustworthy-Computing Medium-Size Grant
on “self-protecting data centers” together with Prof. Sushil
Jajodia at GMU and Prof. Meng Yu at Western Illinois University.
- (July 09) Press Release: http://live.psu.edu/story/40372/nw70
- (July 09)
Paper accepted by CCS-09: A software theft detection paper written
by Xinran Wang, Yoon-Chan Jhi, Sencun Zhu, and Peng Liu.
- (July 09) Grant: A team with Professor Liu as the PI won a MURI award on topic
“Cyber Situational Awareness.”
- (April 09) Grant: Professor Liu, as a Co-PI, is awarded a major grant from DTRA.
The PI is Prof. Frank Ritter in College of IST.
- April 09:
Penn State is to be re-designated, by DHS and the National Security
Agency, as a "National Center
of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education" (CAE-Education)
for academic years 2009-2014.
The PSU’s re-designation application is led by Professor
Liu. Prof. Squicciarini and
Prof. Chu are co-leaders of this application.
- Jan 09:
Professor Liu is to serve as the program co-chair of AsiaCCS 2010 (http://www.dacas.cn/asiaccs2010/),
which will be held in Beijing, China.
- Dec 08: A
paper written by Prof. Xu, N. Irani, Prof. Zhu, and W. Xu on Children's
Online Privacy has appeared on the premier information systems
conference: ICIS 2008.
- Dec 08:
Professor Liu has given a Keynote Speech on Inscrypt 2008, titled
“Privacy Preserving Information Brokering”.
- Oct 08:
Professor Liu is to serve as the general chair of Securecomm 2009.
- Sept 08:
Professor Squicciarini won a NSF Cyber-Trust Medium-Size Grant
“Securing Dynamic Online Social Networks” in collaboration
with UT San Antonio and ASU.
- June 08: Penn State is among the first universities
in the nation to be designated, by the National Security Agency (NSA),
as a "National Center of Academic Excellence in Information
Assurance Research" (CAE-Research) for academic
years 2008-2013.
Congratulations to the Cyber Security Lab members and all the
security researchers at Penn
State for their
great contributions to this designation.
- May 08:
Professor Liu has been selected as a Program Co-Chair of INSCRYPT 2008:
4th International Conference on Information Security and
Cryptology, which will be held in December 14-17 in Beijing, China.
- May 08:
Robert (Bo) Luo accepted a tenure-track assistant professor offer from University of Kansas.
- March 08:
Professor Liu has been selected as a Program Co-Chair of SecureComm
2008: 4th International Conference on Security and Privacy in
Communication Networks, which will be held in September 22-25 in Istanbul, Turkey
- Feb 08:
Professor Liu won an AFRL SBIR Phase II grant, led by IAI, Inc.
- Jan 08:
Professor Squicciarini joined the Cyber Security Lab.
- Nov 07:
Professor Liu has successfully co-organized the ARO Workshop on Cyber Situational Awareness at Fairfax, VA
in Nov 14-15.
- Sept 07:
Professor Xu won a NSF Cyber Trust grant on “Privacy Assurance in
Location-Based Services,” joint with Professor Rosson and
Professor Carroll.
- Sept 07:
Professor Liu won a collaborative NSF Cyber Trust grant together with George Mason
University and Western Illinois University. This project is on Dynamic Damage
Assessment and Recovery for
data processing systems.
- Aug 07: The
paper “Automaton Segmentation: A New Approach to Preserve Privacy
in XML Information Brokering” written by Cathy Li, Bo Luo, Peng Liu,
Dongwon Lee, and Chao-Hsien Chu was accepted at the 2007 ACM Conference on Computer and
Communications Security (CCS’07).
- June 07:
Professor Liu won an ARO STTR Phase II grant, led by IAI, Inc.
- Spring 07:
Professor Zhu won a NSF CAREER award titled “CAREER: Combating
Worm Propagation in Emergent Networks.”
- Mar 07:
Professor Liu won a 5-year MURI
grant, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, titled “Autonomic
Recovery of Enterprise-wide Systems after Attack or Failure with Forward
Correction”, joint with GMU and Columbia University. This project will take a
“health care” approach to do non-stop enterprise computing
in the face of cyber attacks.
- Spring 07:
Professor Xu was a runner up for the 2006
ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition.
- Feb 2007 (press
coverage):
The PWC (proactive worm containment) technology developed by Professor
Liu and his students was reported about 80 times by both national media (e.g., The Association
Press, USA Today, Washington Post, Fox News, BusinessWeek, Forbes,
MSNBC, ABC Money, PC World) and international media (e.g., Times
Online), under such titles as “Penn State Researchers ID Worms by
Speed”.
- Dec 06: Liu and Zhu were awarded a grant from The
Technology Collaborative to develop signature-free techniques to filter
remote exploits.
- June 06: The
paper “SigFree: A Signature-free Buffer Overflow Attack
Blocker” written by X. Wang, C. Pan, P. Liu, and S. Zhu was
accepted at the 2006 USENIX
Security Symposium (SECURITY’06).
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