Team for Research in
Ubiquitous Secure Technology

News & Highlights

2013 Summer Program Applications Now Open

December 17, 2012

The TRUST REU is a nine-week summer residential program that offers rising juniors and seniors in computer science or electrical engineering programs the opportunity to conduct research in Cybersecurity, ... Read More...


NSF Awards $10 Million Grant to ICSI and Collaborators to Study Human Element of Cybercrime

September 26, 2012

The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), along with the University of California, San Diego and George Mason University have received $10 million in a 5-year grant from the National ... Read More...


Johannes Gerke of Cornell University wins IEEE Award

June 12, 2012

Johannes Gerke, computer science professor at Cornell University, is one of 14 prominent technologists to be honored at the IEEE Computer Society's annual awards dinner in Seattle. Professor Gerke ... Read More...


How Al Qaeda Hid Secrets in a Video

May 3, 2012

A May 1, 2012 Discovery News article, "How Al Qaeda Hid Secrets In a Porn Video" discusses using steganography ... Read More...


Secretary Of Homeland Security Speaks At San Jose State

April 18, 2012

On April 16th, Professor and TRUST campus Principal Investigator at San Jose State University Sigurd Meldal participated in hosting a visit by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to ... Read More...


Web Firms to Adopt 'No Track' Button.

February 26, 2012

Support for a do-not-track button by a coalition of Internet giants, including Google, has emerged as part of the White House's call for Congress to pass a "privacy bill of rights" giving people more control ... Read More...


Internet is still vulnerable to cyber-criminals

January 21, 2012

A January 21, 2012 San Francisco Chronicle article "Internet is still vulnerable to cyber-criminals" by James Temple ... Read More...


Android apps and advertising: A bit too cozy

December 13, 2011

A Tech Republic blog entry "Android apps and advertising: A bit too cozy" features the research ... Read More...


Carrier IQ cell phone monitor software is a nightmare

December 5, 2011

TRUST Professor Stephen Wicker was quoted in a NetworkWorld article, "Cornell ... Read More...


White House Honors Cornell's Salman Avestimehr with PECASE

October 5, 2011

TRUST investigator and Cornell Professor Salman Avestimehr was named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists ... Read More...


"The Science of Cyber Security"

August 9, 2011

US News and World Report's article, "The Science of Cyber Security" by Marlene ... Read More...


Erika Chin: "Seven ways to hang yourself with Google Android"

August 9, 2011

The research work of Erika Chin, an EECS graduate student studying smartphone security was featured in a Consumer Reports online magazine article titled ... Read More...


Stanford's Dan Boneh Receives Dean's Award for Industry Education Innovation

June 13, 2011

TRUST researcher and Stanford University Professor Dan Boneh was awarded the School of Engineering Dean's Award for Industry Education Innovation. ... Read More...


TRUST Researchers to Lead Intel Security Center

June 10, 2011

Intel Labs announced the creation of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Secure Computing (ISTCSC) to be led by UC Berkeley with partner institutions ... Read More...


Audio Captchas defeated

June 3, 2011

Stanford Professor John Mitchell, postdoctoral research Elie Bursztein and their colleagues have developed a way to defeat ... Read More...


Stephen Wicker on iOS user privacy

April 22, 2011

Professor Stephen Wicker was quoted in Network World's article "Cornell ... Read More...


Doug Tygar on the LinkedIn outage in China

February 26, 2011

Bloomberg's February 25, 2011 article "LinkedIn Service Is Restored in Beijing After ... Read More...


Cornell's Hakim Weatherspoon Awarded Sloan Fellowship

February 23, 2011

TRUST investigator and Cornell University Prof. Hakim Weatherspoon was named a recipient of the 2011 Sloan ... Read More...


Car Theft by Antenna

January 18, 2011

According to new research to be presented at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium next month in San Diego, California, car thieves ... Read More...


Commerce announces new shop to oversee online security

January 7, 2011

NextGov.com's article "Commerce announces new shop to oversee online security" covers ... Read More...


White House Honors Vanderbilt's Bradley Malin

November 16, 2010

TRUST investigator and Vanderbilt University Professor Bradley Malin was named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists ... Read More...


"Fabric" To Weave Security into Code

October 21, 2010

Cornell computer science faculty, Fred Schneider and Andrew Meyers are developing a new computer platform, dubbed Fabric, that offers a way to build security into computer systems from the ... Read More...


UC Berkeley's Dawn Song Awarded MacArthur Fellowship

September 29, 2010

TRUST researcher and UC Berkeley Professor Dawn Song was named a 2010 ... Read More...


TRUST Autumn 2010 Conference: Nov. 10-11, 2010

September 21, 2010

The next TRUST Conference will be held November 10-11, 2010 at the Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center on the campus of Stanford ... Read More...


WSJ: "J.P. Morgan Wrestles Web Snarl

September 20, 2010

UC Berkeley Professor Doug Tygar was quoted in a September 15, 2010 Wall Street Journal website article, "J.P. ... Read More...