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July 15, 2024 - The CAP group congratulates Ryan on the acceptance of his paper titled "Release the Hounds! Automated Inference and Empirical Security Evaluation of Field-Deployed PLCs using Active Network Data" into CCS 2024!

August 14, 2023 - The CAP group congratulates Ryan and Tohid on the acceptance of their paper titled "Compromising Industrial Processes using Web-Based Programmable Logic Controller Malware" into NDSS 2024!

July 13, 2023 - The CAP group congratulates Qinying and Binbin on the acceptance of their paper titled "SyzTrust: State-aware Fuzzing on Trusted OS Designed for IoT Devices" into IEEE S&P 2024!

March 27, 2023 - The CAP group congratulates Binbin on the acceptance of his paper titled "UVSCAN: Detecting Third-Party Component Usage Violations in IoT Firmware" into USENIX Security 2023!

November 19, 2022 - The CAP group congratulates Chenyang and Binbin on the acceptance of their paper titled "MINER: A Hybrid Data-Driven Approach for REST API Fuzzing" into USENIX 2023!

April 8, 2022 - The CAP group congratulates Ning and Tohid on the acceptance of their paper titled "Magnetic Signature of Vacuum Interrupters during Load Switching" into IEEE EIC 2022!

April 8, 2022 - The CAP group congratulates Binbin and Chenyang on the acceptance of their papers titled "A Large-Scale Empirical Analysis of the Vulnerabilities Introduced by Third-party Components in IoT Firmware" and "SLIME: Program-sensitive Energy Allocation for Fuzzing" into ISSTA 2022!

February 18, 2022 - The CAP group congratulates Tohid on the acceptance of his paper titled "MaDIoT 2.0: Modern High-Wattage IoT Botnet Attacks and Defenses" into Usenix 2022!

December 12, 2021 - The CAP group congratulates Sizhuang on the acceptance of his paper titled "Hiding My Real Self! Protecting Intellectual Property in Additive Manufacturing Systems Against Optical Side-Channel Attacks" into the NDSS 2022!

October 20, 2021 - The CAP group congratulates Chenyang and Binbin on the acceptance of their paper titled "EMS: History-Driven Mutation for Coverage-based Fuzzing" into the NDSS 2022!

October 12, 2021 - The CAP group congratulates Anni on the acceptance of her paper titled "OnAI-Comp: An Online AI Experts Competing Framework for Early Sepsis Detection" into the IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics!

September 18, 2021 - The CAP group congratulates Changjiang and Shouling on the acceptance of their paper titled "Towards Certifying the Asymmetric Robustness for Neural Networks: Quantification and Applications" into the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing!

August 28, 2021 - The CAP group congratulates Tuan and Sizhuang on the acceptance of their paper title "Physical Logic Bombs in 3D Printers via Emerging 4D Techniques" into the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2021!

July 8, 2021 - The CAP group congratulates Peiyu and Shouling on the acceptance of their paper title "iFIZZ: Deep-State and Efficient Fault-Scenario Generation to Test IoT Firmware" into the 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2021)!

June 10, 2021 - The CAP group congratulates Qinchen and David on the acceptance of their paper title "This Hacker Knows Physics: Device Physics Aware Mimicry Attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems" into the IEEE Transactions on Distributed and Secure Computing!

May 25, 2021 - The CAP group congratulates Qinying and Binbin on the acceptance of their paper title "MPInspector: A Systematic and Automatic Approach for Evaluating the Security of IoT Messaging Protocols" into the 30th USENIX Security Symposium 2021!

May 13, 2021 - The CAP group congratulates Celine on the successful defense of her dissertation!

May 5, 2021 - The CAP group congratulates Tohid and Celine on the acceptance of their paper titled "MaMIoT: Manipulation of Energy Market Leveraging High Wattage IoT Botnets" into the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), 2021!

April 2, 2021 - The CAP group congratulates Chenghui and Shouling on the acceptance of their paper titled "Adversarial CAPTCHAs" into the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB) 2021!

March 22, 2021 - The CAP group congratulates Tianyu on the acceptance of her paper titled "Cert-RNN: Towards Certifying the Robustness of Recurrent Neural Networks" into the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), 2021!

March 17, 2021 - The CAP group congratulates Sizhuang on the acceptance of his paper titled "A Practical Side-channel Based Intrusion Detection System for Additive Manufacturing Systems" into the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2021!

March 10, 2021 - The CAP group congratulates Sizhuang on the acceptance of his paper titled "Physics-Aware Security Monitoring against Structural Integrity Attacks in 3D Printers" into the 51st IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2021)!

November 5, 2020 - The CAP group congratulates BinBin on the acceptance of his paper titled "A Large-scale Empirical Study on the Vulnerability of Deployed IoT Devices" into the Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing!

August 15, 2020 - The CAP group congratulates Shouling, Yuwei, and Qinchen on the acceptance of their paper titled "V-Fuzz: Vulnerability Prediction Assisted Evolutionary Fuzzing for Binary Programs" into the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics!

August 15, 2020 - The CAP group congratulates Shouling, Yuwei, Yuan, and Sizhuang (and our collaborators) on the acceptance of their paper titled "UNIFUZZ: A Holistic and Pragmatic Metrics-Driven Platform for Evaluating Fuzzers" into USENIX Security 2021!

July 6, 2020 - The CAP group congratulates Peiyu Liu and Shouling Ji on the acceptance of their paper titled "Understanding the Security Risks of Docker Hub" into the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), September 2020.

June 5, 2020 - The CAP group congratulates Chenghui and Shouling on the acceptance of their paper titled "Text Captcha Is Dead? A Large Scale Deployment and Empirical Study" into the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 2020.

Mar 13, 2020 - The CAP group congratulates Celine on passing her PhD proposal exam, which is titled "Network Traffic Characterization and Intrusion Detection in Building Automation Systems". The committee was very pleased with her work!

Feb 16, 2020 - The CAP group congratulates Tianyu and Shouling on the acceptance of their paper titled "SirenAttack: Generating Adversarial Audio for End-to-End Acoustic Systems" into the 15th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2020).

Dec 27, 2019 - The CAP group congratulates Qinchen and Shouling on the acceptance of their paper titled "De-Health: All Your Online Health Information Are Belong to Us" into the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2020.

Dec 27, 2019 - The CAP group congratulates Qinchen and Shouling on the acceptance of their paper titled "OB-WSPES: A Uniform Evaluation System for Obfuscation-based Web Search Privacy" into the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.

Oct 30, 2019 - The CAP group congratulates Celine and Tohid on the acceptance of their paper titled "If I Knew Then What I Know Now: On Reevaluating DNP3 Security using Power Substation Traffic" into the Fifth Industrial Control System Security (ICSS19) Workshop.

Sep 8, 2019 - The CAP group congratulates Abbas Acar and Arif Selcuk Uluagac on the acceptance of their paper titled "A Privacy-preserving Multi-factor Authentication System" into the Security and Privacy Journal (Wiley).

Sep 8, 2019 - The CAP group congratulates David Formby and Raheem Beyah on the acceptance of their paper titled "Temporal Execution Behavior for Host Anomaly Detection in Programmable Logic Controllers" into the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security.

May 3, 2019 - The CAP group congratulates Chenyang Lv and Shouling Ji on the acceptance of their paper titled "MOPT: Optimized Mutation Scheduling for Fuzzers" into the Proceedings of the Usenix Security (Security) Symposium, 2019.

Mar 9, 2019 - The CAP group congratulates Long Cheng on the acceptance of his paper titled "Checking is Believing: Event-Aware Program Anomaly Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems" into the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.

Jan 30, 2019 - The CAP group congratulates Shreyas (from Dr. Divan's group) and Qinchen on the acceptance of their paper titled "Enabling a Decentralized Smart Grid using Autonomous Edge Control Devices" into the IEEE Internet of Things Journal - Special Issue on IoT for Smart Energy Systems.

Nov 28, 2018 - The CAP group congratulates Zhen Hong on the acceptance of his paper titled "A Secure Routing Protocol with Regional Partitioned Clustering and Beta Trust Management in Smart Home" into the (Springer) Wireless Networks Journal.

Nov 7, 2018 - The CAP group congratulates Tohid and Christian on the acceptance of their paper titled "RFDIDS: Radio Frequency-based Distributed Intrusion Detection System for the Power Grid" into the 2019 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium.

Sep 22, 2018 - The CAP group congratulates Dr. Zhen Hong on the acceptance of his paper on source location privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems into IEEE TIFS.

July 23, 2018 - The CAP group congratulates Selcuk Uluagac and Raheem Beyah on the acceptance of their paper "SOTA: Secure Over-the-Air Programming of IoT Devices" into the IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) 2018.

June 6, 2018 - David will be giving a talk at Black Hat USA 2018 on GRFICS: A Graphical Realism Framework for Industrial Control Simulations. See more details here.

June 6, 2018 - David and Milad's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates David and Milad on the acceptance of their paper "Lowering the Barriers to Industrial Control System Security with GRFICS" into the USENIX Workshop on Advances in Security Education (ASE) 2018!

March 17, 2018 - Dr. Beyah gave a talk in Virginia Tech titled Toward Maintaining Control of Industrial Control Systems. See more here.

February 23, 2018 - Prof. Raheem Beyah is serving as a Guest Editor for the special issue "Emerging Technologies for Connected and Smart Vehicles" in IEEE Communications Magazine. Click here for details.

February 23, 2018 - Prof. Raheem Beyah served as a Guest Editor for the special issue "Edge Computing for the Internet of Things " in IEEE Network Magazine. Click here for details.

Feb 9, 2018 - Celine Named IISP Cybersecurity Fellow
The CAP group congratulates Celine for being named IISP cybersecurity follow! Click here for details.

December 6, 2017 - Qinchen and David's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Qinchen and David on the acceptance of their paper "Fingerprinting for Cyber Physical System Security: Device Physics Matters Too" into the IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine!

December 1, 2017 - Dr. Shouling's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Dr. Shouling on the acceptance of his paper "Quantifying Graph Anonymity, Utility, and De-anonymity" into the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2018!

November 10, 2017 - Dr. Xiaojing's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Peng and Dr. Xiaojing on the acceptance of their paper "Game of Missuggestions: Semantic Analysis of Search-Autocomplete Manipulations" into the Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium!

September 5, 2017 - Celine's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Celine on the acceptance of her paper "HoneyBot: A Honeypot for Robotic Systems" into the Proceedings of the IEEE!

August 4, 2017 - Dr. Beyah named interim school chair for Electrical and Computer Engineering!
The CAP group Dr. Beyah on being appointed the interim school chair for Electrical and Computer Engineering!

August 4, 2017 - Shouling and Qinchen's Paper Accepted into the International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm)!
The CAP group congratulates Shouling and Qinchen on the acceptance of their paper titled " HSTS Measurement and A New Stripping Attack Against HTTPS" in the International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2017!

June 29, 2017 - Shukun and Shouling's Paper Accepted into the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security!
The CAP group congratulates Shukun and Dr. Shouling on the acceptance of their paper "DPPG: A Dynamic Password Policy Generation System." into the 2017 IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security!

June 15, 2017 - Xiaojing, Preethi, and David's Paper Accepted into the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
The CAP group congratulates Dr. Xiaojing Liao, Preethi Srinivasan, David Formby on the acceptance of their paper "Di-PriDA: Differentially Private Distributed Load Balancing Control for the Smart Grid." into the 2017 IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing!

May 30, 2017 - Shouling and Weiqing's Paper Accepted into the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
The CAP group congratulates Dr. Shouling Ji and Weiquing on the acceptance of their paper "De-SAG: On the De-anonymization of Structure-Attribute Graph Data." into the 2017 IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing!

May 11, 2017 - Christian's Paper Accepted into Usenix Security Conference
The CAP group congratulates Christian on the acceptance of his paper "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Feel No Evil, Print No Evil? Malicious Fill Patterns Detection in Additive Manufacturing" into the 2017 Usenix Security Conference!

April 13, 2017 - Congratulations to David for winning 2nd place AND the People's Choice Award at the IISP Demo Day competition! See more here.

April 4, 2017 - Dr. Beyah gave a talk in Rome titled Toward Maintaining Control of Control Systems. See more here.

April 4, 2017 - Celine featured in ECE student spotlight!
Check out Celine where she is featured in Georgia Tech's ECE Student Spotlight here, discussing her work on honeybots.

February 19, 2017 - David's RSA Presentation Featured in Vice
Check out David's work on Ransomware in Industrial Control Systems presented at RSA here and paper here. It has also been featured on vice here

February 12, 2017 - Xiaojing's Paper Accepted to IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium
The CAP group congratulates Xiaojing on the acceptance of her paper "Under the Shadow of Sunshine: Understanding and Detecting BulletProof Hosting on Legitimate Service Provider Networks" into the 2017 IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium (Oakland)!

February 9, 2017 - David selected as RSA Scholar
The CAP group congratulates David on being selected as an RSA Scholar. See more here!

February 1, 2017 - Prof. Beyah named Emerging Scholar
The CAP group congratulates Professor Beyah on being named as an Emerging Scholar in the January 26 edition of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education!

January 1, 2017 - David's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates David on the acceptance of his paper titled "A Case Study in Power Substation Network Dynamics" into the 2017 ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems(SIGMETRICS).

December 7, 2016 - David Successfully Defends Proposal
The CAP group congratulates David on his successful proposal defense entitled "Network Based Fingerprinting Techniques for Industrial Control Systems"

December 2, 2016 - Xiaojing Successfully Defends Proposal
The CAP group congratulates Xiajing on her successful proposal defense entitled "Evaluating Security Risk and Cyber Intelligence of Promotional Infection Attack"

November 30, 2016 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Named ACM Distinguished Scientist
The CAP group congratulates Professor Raheem Beyah for being named an ACM Distinguished Scientist!

November 29, 2016 - Shouling's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling on the acceptance of his paper "Graph Data Anonymization, De-anonymization Attacks, and De-anonymizability Quantification: A Survey." into the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (COMST).

November 29, 2016 - Shouling and Shukun's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling and Shukun on the acceptance of their paper "Password Correlation: Quantification, Evaluation and Application." To appear in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 2017

November 12, 2016 - Xiaojing's paper wins 3rd place!
The CAP group congratulates Xiaojing for winning 3rd place in the CSAW '16 Applied Research Competition on her paper "Acing the IOC Game: Toward Automatic Discovery and Analysis of Open-Source Cyber Threat Intelligence."[Link]

November 6, 2016 - Supreeth's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Supreeth on the acceptance of his paper "On The Outside Looking In: Towards Detecting Counterfeit Devices Using Network Traffic Analysis". To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems.

October 25, 2016 - Prof. Raheem Beyah gave talk at Dartmouth
Prof. Raheem Beyah gave talk at the Dartmouth titled "Toward Maintaining Control of Industrial Control Systems".

October 24, 2016 - We had the opportunity to host Admiral Michael Rodgers, Director of NSA, to discuss our various research efforts going on in CAP

October 15, 2016 - Xiaojing is a finalist for the CSAW'16 Applied Research Competition
The CAP group congratulates Xiaojing on being a finalist for the CSAW'16 Applied Research Competition for her paper "Acing the IOC Game: Toward Automatic Discovery and Analysis of Open-Source Cyber Threat Intelligence."[Link]

October 11, 2016 - David Invited to Attend RSA 2017
The CAP group congratulates David on his invitation to attend the 2017 RSA Conference - a premier information security conference - under the "RSA Security Scholars" program.

October 3, 2016 - David Wins in Fall 2016 Demo Day
The CAP group congratulates David on being one of the five winners in the Fall 2016 Demo Day preliminary competition with his poster "Under Control: Techniques for Securing Industrial Control Systems".

July 24, 2016 - Xiaojing's Two Papers Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Xiaojing on the acceptance of her papers "Lurking Malice in the Cloud: Understanding and Detecting Cloud Repository as a Malicious Service." and "Acing the IOC Game: Toward Automatic Discovery and Analysis of Open-Source Cyber Threat Intelligence." To appear at the proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2016.

June 27, 2016 - Ram and Shruthi's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Ram and Shruthi on the acceptance of their paper "Simple Visualization and Programming Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks." To appear in the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal.

June 14, 2016 - Prof. Raheem Beyah gave talk at M3AAWG
Prof. Raheem Beyah gave talk at the June Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) meeting on securing Industrial Control Systems.

May 09, 2016 - Sam and David's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Sam and David on the acceptance of their paper "Re-thinking the Honeypot for Cyber-Physical Systems." To appear in the IEEE Internet Computing Magazine - Special Issue on Cyber-Physical Security and Privacy.

March 28, 2016 - Celine got Honorable Mention
Celine Irvene has been awarded Honorable Mention at NSF GRFP. [Link]

March 27, 2016 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins the INFOCOM 2017 Technical Program Committee
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been invited to join the International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2017 Technical Program Committee.

March 08, 2016 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Received Promotion
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been promoted to full professor.

February 16, 2016 - Weiqing and Shouling's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Weiqing and Shouling on the acceptance of their paper "General Graph Data De-anonymization: From Mobility Traces to Social Networks." To appear in the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security.

February 08, 2016 - Xiaojing's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Xiaojing on the acceptance of her paper "Seeking Nonsense, Looking for Trouble: Efficient Promotional-Infection Detection through Semantic Inconsistency Search." To appear in the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland).

January 28, 2016 - Weiqing and Shouling's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Weiqing and Shouling on the acceptance of their paper "Structural Data De-anonymization: Theory and Practice." To appear in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

January 13, 2016 - Robot Zoo in Georgia Tech
The CAP group is part of the new robotarium project led by Prof. Magnus Egerstedt to make robotics accessible to all. [Link]

December 29, 2015 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Received a Patent
Prof. Raheem Beyah is awarded a patent on "Systems and methods for fingerprinting physical devices and device types based on network traffic". [Link]

December 28, 2015 - PARS v0 Release
PARS is now available for download on http://www2.ece.gatech.edu/cap/PARS/

December 15, 2015 - Xiaojing's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Xiaojing on the acceptance of her paper "Characterizing Long-tail SEO Spam on Cloud Web Hosting Services." To appear in the International World Wide Web Conference, April 2016.

December 07, 2015 - Weiqing and Shouling's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Weiqing and Shouling on the acceptance of their paper "Seed based De-anonymizablity Quantification of Social Networks." To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security.

November 27, 2015 - Shukun, Weiqing and Shouling's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shukun, Weiqing and Shouling on the acceptance of their paper "On the Relative De-anonymizability of Graph Data: Quantification and Evaluation." To appear in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April 2016.

November 11, 2015 - Shouling Passes PhD Dissertation Defense
The CAP group congratulates Shouling on successfully defending his PhD dissertation titled "Evaluating the Security of Anonymized Big Graph/Structural Data". He did an excellent job and the committee was very impressed.

October 30, 2015 - CAP members find vulnerability in Siemens Ethernet Frame Padding.
GT CAP members have identified a Ethernet Vulnerability in Siemens RuggedCom. More details can be found in the following advisory (ICSA-15-300-01): [Link]

October 23, 2015 - David and Preethi's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates David and Preethi on the acceptance of their paper "Who's in Control of Your Control System? Device Fingerprinting for Cyber-Physical Systems." To appear in the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, February 2016.

October 06, 2015 - Weiqing and Shouling's Poster Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Weiqing and Shouling on the acceptance of their poster "ShareSafe the Complete Collection of Tools for Graph Data Privacy Analysis." For presentation at Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2015.

October 01, 2015 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Spoke at University of Southern California
Prof. Raheem Beyah gave an invited talk on "Password Security, Measurement, and Correlation" at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.[Link]

September 24, 2015 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Spoke at Vanderbilt University
Prof. Raheem Beyah gave an invited talk on "Password Security, Measurement, and Correlation" at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.[Link]

August 29, 2015 - Shouling and Shukun's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling and Shukun on the acceptance of their paper "Zero-Sum Password Cracking Game: A Large-Scale Empirical Study on the Crackability, Correlation, and Security of Passwords." To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC).

August 19, 2015 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Receives NSF Grant.
Prof. Raheem Beyah has received a grant for $500,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project (SI2-SSE) titled "ShareSafe: A Framework for Researchers and Data Owners to help facilitate Secure Graph Data Sharing."

August 12, 2015 - Xiaojing's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Xiaojing on the acceptance of her paper "Cracking App Isolation on Apple: Unauthorized Cross-App Resource Access on MAC OS X and iOS." To appear in the Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 2015

August 11, 2015 - Shouling and Shukun's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling and Shukun on the acceptance of their paper "PARS: A Uniform and Open-source Password Analysis and Research System." To appear in the Proceedings of Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2015

July 16, 2015 - CAP members find vulnerability in global power grid
GT CAP members have identified a Ethernet Vulnerability in Eaton's Cooper Power Series From 6 Control and Idea/IdeaPlus Relays. More details can be found in the following advisory (ICSA-15-006-01): [Link]

July 02, 2015 - Chris and Selcuk's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Chris and Selcuk on the acceptance of their paper "Information Leakage in Encrypted IP Video Traffic." To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2015.

June 18, 2015 - CAP members find vulnerability in global power grid
GT CAP members have identified a TCP predictability vulnerability that exists in Wind River's VxWorks embedded software. More details can be found in the following advisory (ICSA-15-169-01): [Link]

June 02, 2015 - CAP members find vulnerability in global power grid
GT CAP members have identified a TCP initial sequence numbers vulnerability in two of Beckwith Electric's digital voltage regulator controllers. More details can be found in the following advisory (ICSA-15-153-01): [Link]

May 28, 2015 - Shouling's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling on the acceptance of his paper "Semi-Structure Routing and Analytical Frameworks for Cognitive Radio Networks." To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

May 16, 2015 - Shouling and Weiqing's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling and Weiqing on the acceptance of their paper "SecGraph: A Uniform and Open-source Evaluation System for Graph Data Anonymization and De-anonymization." To appear in the Proceedings of USENIX Security (Security) Symposium, August 2015

May 14, 2015 - Prof. Beyah gives cybersecurity primer to judges
Prof. Beyah gave a primer on cybersecurity to the Gate City Bar Association Judicial Section as part of their Continuing Legal Education (CLE) training.

May 07, 2015 - CAP alum receives NSF CAREER Award
Prof. Selcuk Uluagac, a former CAP PhD student and Research Engineer, received an NSF CAREER Award in the area of Cyber-Physial Systems Security. Prof. Uluagac is currently an Assistant Professor at Florida International University.

March 25, 2015 - Shouling Passes PhD Proposal Exam
The CAP group congratulates Shouling on successfully passing his PhD proposal exam. The committee thought that his work was excellent.

March 14, 2015 - Shouling's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling on the acceptance of his paper "Whitespace Analysis and Virtual Backbone Construction in Cognitive Radio Networks: A Social Networking Perspective." To appear in the IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), June 2015.

March 14, 2015 - Shouling's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling on the acceptance of his paper "Primary Social Behavior aware Routing and Scheduling for Cognitive Radio Networks." To appear in the IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), June 2015.

March 10, 2015 - CAP members find vulnerability in global power grid
GT CAP members identified a predictable TCP sequence vulnerability in GE Digital Energy's Hydran M2 device, containing the 17046 Ethernet option. More details can be found in the following advisory (ICSA-15-041-02): [Link]

March 07, 2015 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins the INFOCOM 2016 Technical Program Committee
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been invited to join the International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2016 Technical Program Committee.

February 27, 2015 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins the SmartGridComm 2015 Team
Prof. Raheem Beyah will be the "Cyber Security and Privacy Symposium TPC Co-Chair" for the IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) 2015.

February 18, 2015 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Spoke at MIT Lincoln Labs
Prof. Raheem Beyah gave an invited talk at MIT Lincoln Labs, Lexington, Massachusetts.

February 06, 2015 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Spoke at the National Security Agency
Prof. Raheem Beyah gave an invited talk at the National Security Agency, Georgia.

January 09, 2015 - Troy's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Troy on the acceptance of his paper "InterSec: An Interaction System for Network Security Applications." To appear in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2015.

November 08, 2014 - Sang Shin's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Sang Shin on the acceptance of his paper "Attacking and Securing Beacon-Enabled 802.15.4 Networks." To appear in the Springer Journal of Mobile Communication, Computation and Information (Wireless Networks).

October 22, 2014 - Shouling and Weiqing's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling and Weiqing on the acceptance of their paper "On Your Social Network De-anonymizablity: Quantification and Large Scale Evaluation with Seed Knowledge." To appear in the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, February 2015.

September 26, 2014 - Sakthi's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Sakthi on the acceptance of his paper "GTID: A Technique for Physical Device and Device Type Fingerprinting." To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.

September 22, 2014 - Lanier's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Lanier on the acceptance of his paper "Using Network Traffic to Infer Hardware State: A Kernel-Level Investigation." To appear in the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems.

August 26, 2014 - David and Sang Shin's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates David and Sang Shin on the acceptance of their paper "An Empirical Study of TCP Vulnerabilities in Critical Power System Devices." To appear in the Smart Energy Grid Security Workshop (SEGS), November 2014.

August 22, 2014 - Shouling's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling on the acceptance of his paper "Broadcast Scheduling with Latency and Redundancy Analysis for Cognitive Radio Networks." To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

July 23, 2014 - Shouling and Weiqing's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling and Weiqing on the acceptance of their paper "Structure based Data De-anonymization of Social Networks and Mobility Traces." To appear in the Information Security Conference (ISC), October 2014.

July 23, 2014 - Shouling, Shukun, Weiqing, and Xiaojing's Poster Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling, Shukun, Weiqing, and Xiaojing on the acceptance of their poster "Password Cracking: A Large-Scale Empirical Study." For presentation at Usenix Security Conference (USENIX Security), August 2014.

July 23, 2014 - Shouling and Weiqing's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling and Weiqing on the acceptance of their paper "Structural Data De-anonymization: Quantification, Practice, and Implications." To appear in the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2014.

July 10, 2014 - Troy Passes PhD Dissertation Defense
The CAP group congratulates Troy on successfully defending his PhD dissertation. He did an excellent job and the committee was very pleased.

July 09, 2014 - David and Sang Shin's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates David and Sang Shin on the acceptance of their paper "A Physical Overlay Framework for Insider Threat Mitigation of Power System Devices." To appear in the IEEE Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), November 2014.

July 09, 2014 - Sang Shin and David's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Sang Shin and David on the acceptance of their paper "A First Look at Machine-to-Machine Power Grid Network Traffic." To appear in the IEEE Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), November 2014.

June 21, 2014 - Selcuk's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Dr. Selcuk Uluagac on the acceptance of his paper "Sensory Channel Threats to Cyber Physical Systems: A Wake-up Call." To appear in the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), October 2014.

May 31, 2014 - Shouling's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling on the acceptance of his paper "Minimum-sized Influential Node Set Selection for Social Networks under the Independent Cascade Model". To appear in the 15th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (ACM MobiHoc 2014), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, August 11-14, 2014.

May 13, 2014 - Xiaojing Receives Travel Grant to Attend the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
Xiaojing has been awarded a student travel grant to attend the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) in Atlanta, Georgia.

April 14, 2014 - Shouling and Weiqing's Poster Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling and Weiqing on the acceptance of their poster "Optimization based Data De-anonymization" for presentation at the IEEE Security & Privacy (Oakland) Poster Session, May 2014.

April 14, 2014 - Xiaojing and David's Poster Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Xiaojing and David on the acceptance of their poster "Di-PriDA: A Privacy-preserving Meter Querying System for Smart Grid Load Balancing" for presentation at the IEEE Security & Privacy (Oakland) Poster Session, May 2014.

April 12, 2014 - Shouling Receives Travel Grant to Attend the IEEE Security & Privacy Conference
Shouling has been awarded a student travel grant to attend the 2014 IEEE Security & Privacy (Oakland) Conference in San Jose, California.

April 12, 2014 - Xiaojing Receives Travel Grant to Attend the IEEE Security & Privacy Conference
Xiaojing has been awarded a student travel grant to attend the 2014 IEEE Security & Privacy (Oakland) Conference in San Jose, California.

April 9, 2014 - Xiaojing and David's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Xiaojing and David on the acceptance of their paper "Towards Secure Meter Data Analysis via Distributed Differential Privacy." To appear in the International Workshop on Trustworthiness of Smart Grids (ToSG 2014), June 2014.

March 26, 2014 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins the INFOCOM 2015 Technical Program Committee
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been invited to join the International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2015 Technical Program Committee.

February 22, 2014 - Xiaojing's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Xiaojing on the acceptance of her paper "S-MATCH: Verifiable Privacy-preserving Profile Matching for Mobile Social Services." To appear in the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2014.

February 9, 2014 - Wenyi's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Wenyi on the acceptance of her paper "MACA: A Privacy-Preserving Multi-factor Cloud Authentication System Utilizing Big Data." To appear in the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'14) Workshop on Security and Privacy in Big Data (BigSecurity), April 2014.

February 9, 2014 - Albert's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Albert on the acceptance of his paper "Active Deception Model for Securing Cloud Infrastructure." To appear in the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'14) Workshop on Security and Privacy in Big Data (BigSecurity), April 2014.

January 23, 2014 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins IEEE CNS 2014 Technical Program Committee
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been invited to join the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS) 2014 Technical Program Committee.

January 8, 2014 - Shouling and Weiqing's Poster Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling and Weiqing on the acceptance of their poster "De-anonymizing Mobility Traces and Social Data using Social Auxiliary Information." For presentation at the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, February 2014.

January 8, 2014 - Shouling's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling on the acceptance of his paper "Constructing Load-Balanced Virtual Backbones in Probabilistic Wireless Sensor Networks via Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm." To appear in the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT).

December 15, 2013 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins the ACSAC 2014 Team
Prof. Raheem Beyah will be the "Posters & WiPs Chair" for the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2014.

December 15, 2013 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins the ICC 2015 Team
Prof. Raheem Beyah will be the "Communication and Information System Security Symposium TPC Co-Chair" for the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2015.

September 13, 2013 - Beyah and colleagues Receive DOE Grant
Prof. Raheem Beyah along with Profs. Sakis Meliopolous and Santiago Grijalva, Seth Walters of GTRI, and Carson Day of NEETRAC have received a $1.7M grant (Beyah's share - $230K) to detect and prevent attacks on utilities and power grids. [more information]

September 10, 2013 - Xiaojing Receives Travel Grant to Attend CNS
Xiaojing has been awarded a student travel grant to attend IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) 2013 in Washington, D.C.

August 29, 2013 - Beyah and Uluagac Receive NSF Grant
Dr. Raheem Beyah and Dr. Selcuk Uluagac have been awarded a grant for $500,000 from the National Science Foundation for a project titled "A Sustainable Wireless Sensor Software Development Framework for Science and Engineering Researchers."

August 24, 2013 - Troy's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Troy on the acceptance of his paper "NAVSEC: A Recommender System for 3D Network Security." To appear in the ACM Visualization for Cyber Security Workshop (VizSec), October 2013.

August 23, 2013 - Xiaojing's Poster Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Xiaojing on the acceptance of her poster "S-Match: An Efficient Privacy-preserving Profile Matching Scheme." For presentation at the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), October 2013.

August 22, 2013 - Beyah Receives NSF Grant
Dr. Raheem Beyah has been awarded a grant for $107,000 (Beyah's share) from the National Science Foundation for a project focused on website usability. This work will be done in collaboration with Dr. Adia Harvey Wingfield at Georgia State University.

August 06, 2013 - Beyah Receives NSF Grant
Dr. Raheem Beyah has been awarded a grant for $250,000 (Beyah's share) from the National Science Foundation for a project titled "Collaborative Research: Delay Signatures: Blurring the Boundary between the Network and the Processor." This work will be done in collaboration with Dr. William H. Robinson at Vanderbilt University.

July 25, 2013 - Supreeth's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Supreeth on the acceptance of his paper "A Network-based Approach to Counterfeit Detection." To appear in the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), November 2013.

July 17, 2013 - Shouling's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling on the acceptance of his paper "Semi-Structure Routing and Performance Analysis for Cognitive Radio Networks." To appear in the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), October 2013. (short paper)

July 17, 2013 - Ram's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Ram on the acceptance of his paper "PROVIZ: An Integrated Visualization and Programming Framework for WSNs." To appear in the IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications (SenseApp), October 2013. (short paper)

July 1, 2013 - Sakthi's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Sakthi on the acceptance of his paper "Realizing an 802.11-based Covert Timing Channel Using Off-The-Shelf Wireless Cards." To appear in the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2013.

July 1, 2013 - CAP Group's Paper Accepted
Our paper, "A Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm for Constructing Load-Balanced Virtual Backbones in Probabilistic Wireless Sensor Networks," was accepted for publication in the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2013.

June 21, 2013 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Spoke at the University of Pittsburgh
Prof. Raheem Beyah gave an invited talk at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Science (iSchool), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

June 15, 2013 - Sakthi's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Sakthi on the acceptance of his paper "A Passive Technique for Fingerprinting Wireless Devices with Wired-side Observations." To appear in the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), October 2013.

June 10, 2013 - Shouling Receives The Chinese Government Award for Self-Financed Students Abroad
The CAP Group congratulates Shouling being selected as one of the recipients of The Chinese Government Award for Self-Financed Students Abroad from China Scholarship Council, China, 2013. The award announcement message is as follows:
“Congratulations to Shouling Ji, a recipient of the 2012 Chinese Government Award for Self-Financed Students Abroad. Shouling was among 489 students chosen from 29 countries worldwide and among 11 disciplines covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, and management. The Chinese Government Award for Self-Financed Students Abroad was established in 2003 to implement the policy of "Supporting study abroad, Encouraging return home, Coming and going free." This program has been highly extolled by the majority of Chinese students and researchers who are studying and working abroad. The Education Department of the Chinese Consulate in different countries will host a variety of activities to award the winners of a certificate and scholarship.
-- China Scholarship Council, China, 2013.”

May 23, 2013 - Shouling Receives Travel Grant to Attend SECON
Shouling has been awarded a student travel grant to attend IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking SECON 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

April 19, 2013 - Prof. Raheem Beyah chosen for Leadership Atlanta
Dr. Raheem Beyah has been selected to participate in Leadership Atlanta's class of 2014. Leadership Atlanta is the oldest sustained community leadership program in the nation. The core of Leadership Atlanta's programming is the signature nine-month, executive-level series. Approximately eighty established leaders are chosen from a pool of several hundred applicants each year to represent a broad cross-section of metro Atlanta. Through retreats, full-day seminars, service projects, discussion groups and community tours, members explore critical community issues, examine themselves as leaders and build relationships of trust and mutual understanding.

April 8, 2013 - Congratulations to Troy Nunnally
The CAP group congratulates Troy on successfully defending his Ph.D. Proposal titled "Advanced Visualizations for Network Security." The committee was very impressed with his work.

April 2, 2013 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins the INFOCOM 2014 Technical Program Committee
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been invited to join the International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2014 Technical Program Committee.

March 25, 2013 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins the ACSAC 2013 Technical Program Committee
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been invited to join the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2013 Technical Program Committee.

March 25, 2013 - Penyen Chi receives College of Engineering Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
The CAP Group congratulates Penyen on being selected as one of the recipients of this year's College of Engineering Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. The award includes a monetary stipend ($250) and desk award. Selections for the award were based on research work of high quality and demonstration of leadership on the project. Penyen has been working with Selcuk and Troy.

March 14, 2013 - Shouling's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling on the acceptance of his paper "Minimum-Latency Broadcast Scheduling for Cognitive Radio Networks." To appear in the IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON) 2013.

March 11, 2013 - Prof. Beyah joins the University of Pittsburgh's iSchool Board of Visitors (BOV)
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been invited to join the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences' Board of Visitors (BOV). The Board of Visitors of the School of Information Sciences includes University Trustees, corporate and business community representatives, distinguished librarians, professional educators, and other experts in particular fields of study.

January 22, 2013 - Beyah Receives DARPA Grant
Dr. Raheem Beyah has received a matching grant for $250,000 from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a project titled "A Smart Power Grid Testbed for Cyber Security Evaluation."

January 21, 2013 - Venkat's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Venkat on the acceptance of his paper "Examining the Characteristics and Implications of Sensor Side Channels." To appear in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2013.

January 21, 2013 - Troy's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Troy on the acceptance of his paper "P3D: A Parallel 3D Coordinate Visualization for Advanced Network Scans." To appear in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2013.

January 21, 2013 - Laura's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Laura on the acceptance of her paper "CLIP: Content Labeling in IPv6, a Layer 3 Protocol for Information Centric Networking." To appear in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2013.

January 23, 2013 - Shouling's Poster Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling on the acceptance of his poster "Broadcast Scheduling for Cognitive Radio Networks." for presentation in the International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2013.

January 18, 2013 - Shouling's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling on the acceptance of his paper "Snapshot and Continuous Data Collection in Probabilistic Wireless Sensor Networks." To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

December 15, 2012 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins the ACSAC 2013 Team
Prof. Raheem Beyah will be the "Posters & Works-in-Progress Chair" for the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2013.

November 27, 2012 - Beyah Receives NEETRAC Grant
Dr. Raheem Beyah has received a grant for $250,000 (with co-PIs John Copeland and Sakis Meliopolous) from the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center (NEETRAC) for a project titled "A Smart Power Grid Testbed for Cyber Security Evaluation."

November 20, 2012 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins IEEE CNS 2013 Technical Program Committee
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been invited to join the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS) 2013 Technical Program Committee.

October 10, 2012 - Selcuk Speaks at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
On October 10, 2012, Dr. Selcuk Uluagac gave an invited talk at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

September 18, 2012 - Venkat Receives Travel Grant to Attend MASS
Venkat has been awarded a student travel grant to attend IEEE International Conference on International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems MASS 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

September 14, 2012 - Shouling's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Shouling on the acceptance of his paper "Cell-based Snapshot and Continuous Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks." To appear in the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.

September 13, 2012 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Receives NSF Grant.
Prof. Raheem Beyah has received a one-year grant for $50,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project titled "Characterizing Microarchitectural Mechanisms for Network Delay Signatures." This work will be done in collaboration with Dr. William H. Robinson at Vanderbilt University.

August 23, 2012 - Prof. Raheem Beyah gives Commencement Speech.
On August 23, 2012 Prof. Raheem Beyah served as the Commencement Speaker for the Clayton County Schools' Summer High School Commencement.

August 15, 2012 - Dr. Cai joins the faculty at GSU
Dr. Zhipeng Cai joined the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University as an Assistant Professor.

August 6, 2012 - CAP Group's SURE summer research student, Jose, Awarded Best Presentation.
The CAP group congratulates Jose Acevedo (from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez) on receiving the GT SURE summer research best presentation award (out of 35 students).

July 19, 2012 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Speaks at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California.
On July 19, 2012, Prof. Raheem Beyah gave an invited talk at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

July 17, 2012 - Marco, Ram, and Venkat's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Marco, Ram, and Venkat on the acceptance of their paper "The Monitoring Core: A Framework for Sensor Security Application Development." To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2012), October 2012.

July 16, 2012 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Speaks at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
On July 16, 2012, Prof. Raheem Beyah gave an invited talk at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya.

July 12, 2012 - Sakthi's Poster Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Sakthi on the acceptance of his poster "A DCF-Based Covert Timing Channel for IEEE 802.11 With Off-The-Shelf Wireless Cards." for presentation in the Usenix Security, August 2012

July 6, 2012 - CAP Group's Paper Accepted
Our paper, "Plugging the Leaks Without Unplugging Your Network in the Midst of Disaster." was accepted for publication in the IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference (LCN), October 2012. (short paper)

July 6, 2012 - Troy's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Troy on the acceptance of his paper "3DSVAT: A 3D Stereoscopic Vulnerability Assessment Tool for Network Security." To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference (LCN), October 2012.

July 1, 2012 - Ram and Venkat's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Ram and Venkat on the acceptance of their paper "SIMAGE: Secure and Link-Quality Cognizant Image Distribution for Wireless Sensor Networks." To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2012.

June 13, 2012 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Speaks at Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, China
On June 13, 2012, Prof. Raheem Beyah gave an invited talk at Harbin Institute of Technology.

May 26, 2012 - CAP Group's Paper Accepted
Our paper, "Secure SOurce-BAsed Loose Synchronization (SOBAS) for Wireless Sensor Networks." was accepted for publication in the Journal of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

May 7, 2012 - Marco Receives Travel Grant to Attend ICC
Marco has been awarded a student travel grant to attend IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC 2012 in Canada.

April 16, 2012 - Congratulations to Dr. Marco Valero
The CAP group congratulates Marco on successfully defending his dissertation. He did a great job. The committee was very impressed with his work.

April 13, 2012 - Selcuk Elevated to Sr. Member of the IEEE
The CAP group congratulates Dr. Selcuk on being elevated to Sr. Member of the IEEE.

April 13, 2012 - Marco to Join Internap
The CAP group congratulates Marco on accepting a full-time position with Internap Network Services Coorporation. He will join Internap, upon completing his Ph.D., as a Senior Network Architect.

March 30, 2012 - Venkat Accepted Summer Intern Position at InterDigital Communications
The CAP group congratulates Venkat on his internship with InterDigital Communications where he will be working with the Wireless LAN Security team.

March 29, 2011 - Marco and Sang Shin's Journal Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Marco and Sang Shin on the acceptance of their paper titled "An Incrementally Deployable Energy Efficient 802.15.4 MAC Protocol (DEEP)" into the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal.

March 21, 2012 - Supreeth Accepted Summer Intern Position at Amazon
The CAP group congratulates Supreeth on his internship with Amazon this summer.

March 8, 2012 - Marco Valero wins Outstanding Graduate Student Award
The CAP group congratulates Marco on being chosen for the Outstanding Graduate Student Award. It is "Awarded to a senior graduate student with an outstanding body of research accomplishments over his/her stay at GSU along with supporting teaching and/or service activities."

March 8, 2012 - Dr. Selcuk joins ACSAC 2012 Technical Program Committee
Dr. Selcuk Uluagac has been invited to join the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2012 Technical Program Committee.

March 5, 2012 - Ram and Sakthi Accepted Summer Intern Positions at Qualcomm
The CAP group congratulates Ram and Sakthi on their internships with Qualcomm this summer. Great job guys!

February 27, 2012 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins INFOCOM 2013 Technical Program Committee
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been invited to join the International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2013 Technical Program Committee.

January 9, 2012 - Marco's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Marco on the acceptance of his paper "EDR2: A Sink Failure Resilient Approach for WSNs." To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), June 2012.

December 24, 2011 - CAP Group's Paper Accepted
Our paper, "Practical Unicast and Convergecast Scheduling Schemes for Cognitive Radio Networks" was accepted for publication in the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization.

December 13, 2011 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins the ACSAC 2012 Team
Prof. Raheem Beyah will be Publicity Co-Coordinator for the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2012.

December 01, 2011 - Brian Passes MS Project Defense
The CAP group congratulates Brian Strickland on successfully defending his MS project titled "Consumer Network Traffic Analysis Using Snort." He did an excellent job and the committee was very pleased.

November 22, 2011 - Marco Defended PhD Dissertation Proposal
The CAP group congratulates Marco on successfully defending his PhD Dissertation Proposal titled "Di-Sec: A Distributed Security Framework for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks." He did an excellent job and the committee was very impressed with his work.

November 17, 2011 - Marco, Sang Shin and Selcuk's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Marco, Sang Shin and Dr. Selcuk on the acceptance of their paper "Di-Sec: A Distributed Security Framework for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks." To appear in the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2012).

November 17, 2011 - CAP Group's Paper Accepted
Our paper, "Snapshot/Continuous Data Collection Capacity for Large-Scale Probabilistic Wireless Sensor Networks" was accepted for publication in the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2012).

November 14, 2011 - Selcuk to Speak at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
On November 15, Dr. Selcuk Uluagac will give an invited talk in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The topic will be "Di-Sec: A Distributed Security Framework for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks".

November 10, 2011 - Di-Sec Webpage Now Available
More information about the Di-Sec framework is now available at www.di-sec.org. Di-Sec is a security framework for sensor networks, targeted primarily for research and educational use.

September 17, 2011 - CAP Group's Poster Accepted
Our poster, "The Monitoring Core (M-Core): Toward Fully Securing Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks" was accepted for presentation in the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2011.

September 2, 2011 - CAP at the ECE Rush
The CAP Group participated at the 2011 ECE Rush where they introduced some of their research and projects (Video available here)

August 17, 2011 - CAP Group's Demo Accepted
Our demo, "Di-Sec: A Distributed Security Framework for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks" was accepted for presentation in the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), September 2011.

August 10, 2011 - Faculty Books Are Bestsellers
Books edited by Prof. Raheem Beyah and Dr. Yi Pan are listed as bestselling titles in a recent catalog of digital security books issued by World Scientific Publishing Company.

July 11, 2011 - CAP Group's Paper Accepted
Our paper, "Rogue Access Point Detection: Challenges, Solutions and Future Directions" was accepted for publication in the IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine.

July 5, 2011 - CAP Group's Paper Accepted
Our paper, "Continuous Data Collection Capacity of Wireless Sensor Networks Under Physical Interference Model" was accepted for publication in the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), October 2011.

July 5, 2011 - Russell's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Russell on the acceptance of his paper "Covert DCF: A DCF-Based Covert Timing Channel in 802.11 Networks." To appear in the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), October 2011.

June 18, 2011 - CAP Group's Paper Accepted
Our paper, "A Genetic Algorithm for Constructing a Reliable MCDS in Probabilistic Wireless Networks" was accepted for publication in the International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), August 2011.

May 16, 2011 - CAP Research in the Media
Prof. Raheem Beyah was recently interviewed about some of the CAP Group's work. Click here to read the interview.

May 13, 2011 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Becomes ACM Senior Member
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been elevated to Senior Member grade in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM Senior Member status recognizes the top 25% of ACM Professional Members for their demonstrated excellence in the computing field.

May 3, 2011 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Tenured and Promoted
CAP Group congratulates Prof. Raheem Beyah on being tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University.

April 20, 2011 - Sang Shin accepted at Georgia Tech
CAP group congratulates Sang Shin on being accepted into the Georgia Tech College of Computing PhD program.

April 15, 2011 - Prof. Raheem Beyah to Speak at University of South Carolina
On April 22, Prof. Raheem Beyah will give an invited talk in the University of South Carolina's Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The topic will be "A Passive Approach to Wireless Device Fingerprinting".

April 14, 2010 - Marco appointed Chair of the Georgia State University student chapter of the ACM
Marco Valero has been appointed Chair of the Georgia State University student chapter of the ACM for the 2011 - 2012 academic year.

April 14, 2011 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins Securecomm 2011 Technical Program Committee
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee for the International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks Securecomm 2011.

April 11, 2011 - Marco Accepted an Engineering Intern Position at Internap
Marco has accepted an engineering summer intern position at Internap Network Services Coorporation - Atlanta, Georgia.

April 11, 2011 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Receives DARPA Grant
Prof. Raheem Beyah has received a two-year grant for $400,000 from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for a project titled "Network Intrusion Detection Using Hardware Signatures." The grant will allow Prof. Raheem Beyah to investigate how to secure networks from insider threats involving the insertion of unauthorized devices. He will be developing a prototype hardware signature IDS (intrusion detection system) that employs techniques similar to those used in human speech identification.

April 9, 2011 - CAP Group's Paper Accepted
Our paper, "OFDMA Resource Allocation in Mobile Multi-hop Relay Networks Using an Adaptive Frame Structure" was accepted for publication in the Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal.

March 25, 2011 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins ANCS 2011 Technical Program Committee
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee for the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS) 2011.

March 10, 2011 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins INFOCOM 2012 Technical Program Committee
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been invited to join the International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Technical Program Committee.

February 2, 2011 - Sang Shin passes MS thesis defense
The CAP group congratulates Sang Shin on passing his thesis defense titled "Attacking and Securing Beacon-Enabled 802.15.4 Networks". He did an excellent job and the committee was very pleased.

January 20, 2011 - Russell Accepted Security Research Position
The CAP group congratulates Russell on accepting a security researcher position with Secureworks.

November 24, 2010 - Lanier's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Lanier on the acceptance of his paper "A Passive Solution to the CPU Resource Discovery Problem in Cluster Grid Networks." To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

November 22, 2010 - Russell passes MS thesis defense
The CAP group congratulates Russell on successfully defending his MS thesis today titled "COVERT DCF: A DCF-BASED COVERT TIMING CHANNEL IN 802.11 NETWORKS".

November 19, 2010 - CAP Group's Paper Accepted
Our paper, "SMITE: A Stochastic Compressive Data Collection Protocol for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks" was accepted for publication in the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2011).

October 22, 2010 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Chosen for Leadership Georgia
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been selected to participate in Leadership Georgia's class of 2011. Established in 1971, Leadership Georgia is one of the nation's oldest and most successful leadership-training programs for young business, civic, and community leaders, typically between 25 and 45 years old.

September 2, 2010 - Marco Receives Travel Grant to Attend MILCOM 2010
Marco has been awarded for a student travel grant to attend the 2010 Military Communications Conference - Unclassified Technical Program to be held in San Jose, California.

August 17, 2010 - Prof. Raheem Beyah and Dr. Li Receive NSF Grant
Prof. Raheem Beyah and Dr. Yingshu Li have received a grant for $83,884 from the National Science Foundation for a project titled "EAGER: Evaluating the Feasibility of Self-Protecting Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks." The two researchers will tackle the problem of building a "self-protecting" wireless sensor network (WSN) that can defend against known attacks as well as potential future attacks.

August 15, 2010 - Marco appointed Vice Chair of the Georgia State University student chapter of the ACM
Marco Valero has been appointed Vice Chair of the Georgia State University student chapter of the ACM for the 2010 - 2011 academic year.

July 26, 2010 - CAP Group's Paper Accepted
Our paper, "On the Construction of k-Connected m-Dominating Sets in Wireless Networks" was accepted for publication in Journal of Combinatorial Optimization.

June 23, 2010 - Selcuk's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Selcuk on the acceptance of his paper "TIme-Based Dynamic Keying and En-route Filtering (TICK) for Wireless Sensor Networks." To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2010.

June 12, 2010 - Lanier's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Lanier on the acceptance of his paper "A Passive Solution to the Memory Resource Discovery Problem in Computational Clusters." To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.

June 09, 2010 - Sang Shin and Marco's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Sang Shin and Marco on the acceptance of their paper "Attacking Beacon-Enabled 802.15.4 Networks." To appear in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2010.

June 08, 2010 - Selcuk passes PhD dissertation defense
The CAP group congratulates Selcuk Uluagac on his successful PhD dissertation defense at Georgia Tech.

May 28, 2010 - Marco Passes Qualifying Exam
The CAP group congratulates Marco Valero on passing his PhD qualifying exam. Great job!!

May 05, 2010 - Russell Accepted a Cyber Defenders Internship
Russell has accepted a Cyber Defenders Internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, California. LLNL's Cyber Defenders program is a summer internship to provide students practical experience directed towards understanding computer systems, network operations, computer security and information protection. Students in the Cyber Defenders program will work on technical projects applying technologies and developing solutions to computer security related problems of national interest.

April 30, 2010 - Marco Receives Travel Grant to Attend ICC
Marco has been awarded for a student travel grant to attend IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC 2010 in South Africa. This year the award ratio was less than 15%.

April 12, 2010 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins INFOCOM 2011 Technical Program Committee
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been invited to join the International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Technical Program Committee.

April 04, 2010 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Named to DARPA Study Group
Prof. Raheem Beyah is one of 12 junior faculty members in the U.S. to be named to a highly selective research study group sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The Computer Science Study Group (CSSG) is a program that supports university research in computer science and related fields while allowing younger researchers to become more knowledgeable about Department of Defense (DoD) information technology needs. As a member of CSSG, Prof. Raheem Beyah will be eligible for up to three years of funding to develop ways to integrate innovative computer science and technology advances with DoD projects.

April 01, 2010 - Himali and Marco's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Himali and Marco on their paper titled "DSF - A Distributed Security Framework for Heterogenous Wireless Sensor Networks" being invited to be presented (and published) at the IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM).

February 25, 2010 - Kevin's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Kevin on the acceptance of his paper titled "A Passive Approach to Wireless Device Fingerprinting" in the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN).

February 17, 2010 - Telvis' Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Telvis on the acceptance of his paper titled "An 802.11 MAC Layer Covert Channel" in the Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal.

January 21, 2010 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Named Minority in Research Science Trailblazer
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been named a Minority in Research Science Trailblazer. The award, which is given to "men and women who are demonstrating outstanding performance that will shape the future course of science and technology," will be presented on February 18 at the 24th Black Engineer of the Year Awards STEM Global Competitiveness Conference in Baltimore.

January 05, 2010 - Lanier passes PhD dissertation defense
The CAP group congratulates Lanier Watkins on his successful PhD dissertation defense. He did an excellent job and the committee stated that his dissertation was "solid work".

December 28, 2009 - Marco's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Marco on the acceptance of his paper "DEEP: A Deployable Energy Efficient 802.15.4 MAC Protocol for Sensor Networks." To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), 2010.

December 28, 2009 - Aravind's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Aravind on the acceptance of his paper "A Wired-side Approach to MAC Misbehavior Detection." To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), 2010.

December 28, 2009 - Selcuk's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Selcuk on the acceptance of his paper "Analysis of Varying AS Path Lengths from the Edge of the Network." To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), 2010.

December 4, 2009 - Marco completed OPNET training
Marco has completed the Introduction to OPNET Modeler and Advanced OPNET Modeler training at OPNET Technologies, Inc. in Bethesda, MD. OPNET Modeler is a graphically oriented simulation tool that the CAP group has incorporated in current research projects.

December 4, 2009 - Himali passes MS project exam
The CAP group congratulates Himali on passing her MS project exam.

December 3, 2009 - Selcuk's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Selcuk on the acceptance of his paper "VEBEK: Virtual Energy-Based Encryption and Keying for Wireless Sensor Networks" for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

October 22, 2009 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Is Co-Editor of Network Security Book
Prof. Raheem Beyah is a co-editor of the soon-to-be-published book Security in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (ISBN 978-981-4271-08-0). The book, which is volume 3 of the Computer and Network Security series, consists of thirteen chapters written by experts in network security, grouped into four sections: Authentication and Confidentiality, Privacy, Reliability, and Network Management and Configuration. Published by World Scientific, Security in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks is a 406-page hardcover book. It can be pre-ordered at Amazon.com for $120.

October 01, 2009 - Prof. Raheem Beyah joins SecureComm 2010 Technical Program Committee
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been invited to join the International ICST 2010 Conference on Security and Privacy in Communications Networks (SecureComm) Technical Program Committee.

October 01, 2009 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Is Co-Chair for Computer and Network Security Symposium
Prof. Raheem Beyah will serve as a co-chair for the Computer and Network Security Symposium, one of thirteen symposia to be conducted at the 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2010). Under the theme of "Innovative Communications for a Better Future," IWCMC 2010 will target a wide spectrum of state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to wireless networks, wireless communications, and mobile computing. The conference will be held in Caen, France on June 28, 2010.

July 29, 2009 - CAP Group's Paper Accepted
Our paper, "Delay Bounded and Energy Efficient Composite Event Monitoring in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks" was accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

July 24, 2009 - CAP group members host technology academy at local middle school
Prof. Raheem Beyah and Ph.D. student Marco Valero hosted the ACKnowledge Academy (sponsored by the National Science Foundation) comprised of rising 8th graders at KIPP WAYS - a local Atlanta Public School middle school. The week-long academy focused on hardware, software, and computer networks.

June 18, 2009 - Aravind's Paper Accepted
The CAP group congratulates Aravind on the acceptance of his paper "Rogue Access Point Detection Using Innate Characteristics of the 802.11 MAC" at the International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (Securecomm) 2009.

June 08, 2009 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Becomes IEEE Senior Member
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been elevated to Senior Member grade in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Senior Member is the highest grade for which IEEE members can apply.

June 05, 2009 - Valero appointed Vice Chair of the Georgia State University student chapter of the ACM
Marco Valero has been appointed Vice Chair of the Georgia State University student chapter of the ACM for the 2009 - 2010 academic year.

May 30, 2009 - CAP Group's Paper Accepted
Our paper, "Toward Revealing Kernel Malware Behavior in Virtual Execution Environments" was accepted to the 2009 International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID).

May 21, 2009 - CAP Group's Paper Accepted
Our invited paper, "Key Challenges in Securing WiMAX Mesh Networks" will appear in the Security and Communication Networks Journal (Wiley) - Special Issue on WiMAX Security and Applications.

May 19, 2009 - Ke passes qualifying exam
The CAP group congratulates Ke (Kevin) Gao on passing his PhD qualifying exam. Great job!

April 23, 2009 - CAP Group's Paper Accepted
Our paper, "Sensor Scheduling for p-Percent Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks" was accepted for publication in the Journal of Cluster Computing - Special Issue on Algorithm and Distributed Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks.

April 13, 2009 - CAP Group's Paper Accepted
Our paper, "Shepherding Loadable Kernel Modules through On-demand Emulation" was accepted to the 2009 SIG SIDAR Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA).

April 08, 2009 - Prof. Raheem Beyah and Bourgeois Honored by Career Services
Prof. Raheem Beyah and Dr. Anu Bourgeois were recently commended by Kevin F. Gaw, the director of University Career Services, for "supporting the career development process of Georgia State University students."

April 08, 2009 - Marco passes MS thesis defense
The CAP group congratulates Marco Valero on successfully defending his MS thesis titled "IMPLEMENTING ENERGY-SAVING IMPROVEMENTS TO THE IEEE 802.15.4 MAC PROTOCOL."

March 23, 2009 - Telvis passes MS thesis defense
The CAP group congratulates Telvis Calhoun on successfully defending his MS thesis titled "A Covert Channel Using 802.11 LANs."

February 20, 2009 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Receives NSF CAREER Award
Prof. Raheem Beyah has received a five-year, $400,000 award from the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program.

January 29, 2009 - Lanier defended PhD dissertation proposal
The CAP group congratulates Lanier who successfully defended his PhD dissertation proposal.

January 16, 2009 - Prof. Raheem Beyah Joins Editorial Board
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been appointed an associate editor of the Journal of Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications.

January 5, 2009 - Prof. Raheem Beyah appointed Vice Chair of KIPP WAYS Academy Advisory Board
Prof. Raheem Beyah has been appointed Vice Chair of the Advisory Board of a local Atlanta Public School middle school - KIPP WAYS.