Pitt Cyber Blog
What We're Reading
This week we're diving into Jeff Horwitz's new book on Facebook's innerworkings (building on his previous WSJ reporting informed by whistleblower Frances Haugen), weighing the tradeoffs of...
What We're Reading
Lots of great content this week: we especially recommend Mustafa Suleyman piece in Foreign Affairs on AI containment. Other reading includes the intersection of human trafficking and cybercrime at...
What We're Reading
This week, we're reading about how disinformation has endangered population immunity for some diseases in the U.S., the sinister intent behind the Taliban's commitment to digital connectivity, and...
Applications Now Being Accepted for Spring 2023 Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grants (PCAG)
The University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security (Pitt Cyber) announces a funding opportunity for Pitt researchers: the Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grants (PCAG) program. PCAG...
What We're Reading
Tops reads this week include AI plagiarism, the growth in ransomware attacks in 2023, a report by the UN High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence and contrasting examples of how AI...
What We're Reading
Happy 2024! This week, we're reading a few big think pieces on neuro-ethics and the fragmentation of the internet, U.S. intelligence community findings on foreign interference efforts in the 2022...
What We're Reading
This week, we're reading about the PRC's expanded cyberattack targets as well as Chinese efforts to establish dominance in developing countries' AI infrastructure, the latest speculation from...
What We're Reading
This week, we're reading about opportunities to develop 'RegTech' that supports compliance with new EU technology regulations, research on how reigning in BigTech through antitrust enforcement...
What We're Reading
This week, we're reading about initial public sector ventures in AI-supported operations, the complicated relationship between emerging technology and...
What We're Reading
Lots of great content to highlight this week! In AI news, a new UNESCO report explores how generative AI can supercharge online gender-based violence and an op-ed by ...
What We're Reading
This week, we highlight a few ways in which the culture wars are manifesting through technology, to include Musk's 'anti-woke' LLM, cybersecurity concerns about Speaker ...
Pitt Cyber’s Cybersecurity Camp Highlighted by the White House
Pitt Cyber was highlighted in today’s...
A Conversation with Amin Rahimian Assistant Professor, Swanson School of Engineering
Pitt Cyber has nearly 100 affiliate scholars drawn from across the University. Affiliate scholars are Pitt faculty working on cyber-related transdisciplinary research. Every so often we catch up with one of them on the blog to learn more about what they’re working on.