The Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics has launched a new website (https://cybersecurityclinics.org) that aims to help universities in the U.S. and around the world to share insights and best practices for launching and operating a cybersecurity clinic.
Diverse processes and practices have been developed in recent years for documenting artificial intelligence (AI), with a shared aim to improve transparency, safety, fairness, and accountability for the development and uses of AI systems. On May 25, 2022, CLTC’s AI Security Initiative presented an online panel discussion on the…
Cybersecurity clinics, like clinics in law and medicine, train university students to provide digital security assistance to outside organizations with limited resources. Cybersecurity clinics provide the students with valuable real-world experience while providing vital support to their public interest clients. Yet the process of starting and operating a cybersecurity clinic…
A team of CLTC-funded researchers from the UC Berkeley School of Information have discovered that the Log4Shell vulnerability — a widely-reported cybersecurity issue discovered in late 2021 — still has not been patched in many applications, especially those that use the Log4Shell indirectly.
Nick Merrill, a Research Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity and Director of the Daylight Security Research Lab, was interviewed for a recent episode of the Tech Policy Grind Podcast. The Tech Policy Grind is produced by the Internet Law and Policy Foundry, a “collaborative collection of early-career…
UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ recognized the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) and its founding director, Steven Weber, with the 2021-2022 Chancellor’s Award for Research in the Public Interest.
On April 5, 2022, CLTC hosted a presentation by Anni Hellman, a Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission who is currently an EU Fellow at UC Berkeley. Hellman’s talk, which was co-sponsored by the Institute of European Studies, the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), and the UC…
On March 31, 2022, CLTC convened a panel discussion focused on the use of data scraping for research purposes. Among the questions considered: to what extent should researchers be allowed to “scrape” (i.e., export) data from platforms on which users post data that is left open to the public? What governance mechanisms could protect researchers and privacy? How might data scraping be handled differently in different contexts?
Jordan Famularo, a postdoctoral fellow at CLTC, authored an essay in Brookings TechStream arguing for a new collective framing of the challenges of the digital age as “digital harms.” The piece argues that efforts to mitigate digital harms can benefit from adopting concepts from other domains
Check out this summary of highlights from CLTC’s activities and impact in 2021, including our work on understanding the impacts of privacy laws; shaping guidelines for the responsible use of artificial intelligence; mapping the structural risks to the internet; creating tools to help organizational leaders act on foresight; and more!