On October 8th, the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, Louisiana State Guard, and Louisiana State University (LSU) convened over 100 representatives from state and local governments, academia,…
By Gil Baram and Derek Manky An insurance company was locked out of its digital systems by ransomware. The attackers wanted 40 bitcoin — about US$3.5 million. The legal…
In March 2026, CLTC’s AI Security Initiative (AISI) partnered with SaferAI, a European nonprofit, to convene an online workshop focused on risk modeling, an important but under-researched aspect…
CLTC researchers Nada Madkour, Director of the Artificial Intelligence Security Initiative (AISI), and Deepika Raman, Non-Resident Research Fellow, have been appointed to serve as co-chairs of the Emerging Technology subcommittee on the California Cybersecurity Task Force (CCTF), a leading cybersecurity advisory body for California state officials.
I School alum Anna Lanzino applied her experience with the UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic to launch a consulting firm serving at-risk organizations
Artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly lowered the barrier to entry for the production and distribution of nonconsensual intimate images (NCII) and child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), leading to…
A new CLTC white paper proposes recommendations for policies that can be implemented to regulate technologies that enable the creation and dissemination of AI-powered nonconsensual intimate images (NCII) and child sexual abuse materials (CSAM),
