News and outside events Ross J. Anderson 1956-2024 We are deeply saddened by the passing of Ross Anderson, a respected colleague. Two new vacancies in Security and Privacy Group The Security and Privacy group at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh seeks to hire two faculty at the level of lecturer/senior lecturer/reader (equivalent to assistant professor, associate professor in the US). Cyber Security Christmas Lectures 2017 We warmly invite local schools to join us for this year’s Cyber Security Christmas Lectures, 14 December 2017. University of Edinburgh to become Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security Research The Government has today announced the University of Edinburgh as the latest UK university to become a Government-approved Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security Research in the UK. Beyond Bitcoin - IOHK and University of Edinburgh establish Blockchain Technology Laboratory IOHK, a leading blockchain research and development company and the University of Edinburgh, today announced the establishment of a Blockchain Technology Laboratory within the university’s School of Informatics. Smart scales leak personal data Student project reveals security and privacy flaws in some eHealth devices. Cyber Security Christmas Lectures We warmly invite local schools to join us for this year’s Cyber Security Christmas Lectures, 15 December 2016. Cyber Challenge winners Emilia Bogdanova, Joshua Green, Paul Sinclair and Dylan Ashcroft have won the Scottish University Cyber Challenge. Built it, broke it, fixed it! Final year undergraduate Thomas Kerber has come second in the international security programming contest, ‘Build it, Break it, Fix it.' MSR PhD studentship on improving the usability of SSL/TLS APIs Fully funded 3 year PhD studentship for UK/EU students to work on the problem of SSL/TLS library usability. This article was published on 2024-11-22
