The CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS) 11th Annual Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) was hosted by Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada on July 22-24, 2015. CUPS Director Lorrie Cranor welcomed the attendees for three days of workshops and proceedings with participation from researchers in business, academia and government....

In "Privacy and Human Behavior in the Information Age", a review published in the Jan. 30 special issue of the journal Science, CMU CyLab's Alessandro Acquisti and a team of fellow CMU researchers have detailed the privacy hurdles people face while navigating in the information age, and offered some perspectives on what should be done about...

Dr. Lorrie Cranor, 10th Annual CyLab Partners Conference (October 2013) Lorrie Faith Cranor, a professor in the Institute for Software Research and director of the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Lab, is one of 47 computer scientists named as 2014 Fellows by the Association for Computing Machinery. Cranor is a professor of computer science and...

The Fall 2014 CyLab Executive Briefing,  held at Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley campus (NASA Research Park), brought together an RSVP invitation-only group of  C-level executives, thought leaders, technical experts, venture capitalists, government investigators and one cyber journalist (with an exclusive) for an update from one of the world's...

Two recent news items underscore CyLab's vital role in contributing to the future of cyber security and privacy. CyLab Researchers Work To Make Commercial Technologies Secure for Defense Department  Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University CyLab and the University of Pennsylvania have received a four-year, $3.9 million grant from the Defense...

Student Poster Session, 11th Annual CyLab Partners Conference (October 2014) The eleventh annual CyLab Partners Conference was held at the main campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 7th and 8th, 2014. For two days, representatives of a dozen partners were briefed on CyLab's latest research across of broad spectrum...