The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $177,308 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, doing business as Colorado School of Mines. The grant supports a collaborative research project to explore security vulnerabilities in mobile computing platforms with shared memory. The research aims to uncover potential side-channel attacks that could be used to extract sensitive...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award of $166,924 aims to enhance privacy leak detection in mobile applications by identifying and analyzing sources of domain-sensitive user data. The key products and services to be delivered include: Conducting a crowdsourcing study to categorize domain-sensitive data within mobile app user interfaces. Developing a novel approach using static and...
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) awarded the University of Rochester $147,846 on June 15, 2024 to conduct research on security vulnerabilities in mobile computing platforms with shared memory. The project aims to uncover security threats that could enable malicious parties to circumvent protection mechanisms and extract sensitive information by monitoring data access patterns. The research will...
This Project Grant award for $200,000 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The project, awarded to New York University, focuses on improving the security of personal digital accounts and fostering safer digital ecosystems for individuals facing heightened cyber threats. The key objectives are to: 1) better understand the experiences of attack targets, support professionals, and...
This $194,999 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to enforce expressive security policies using trusted execution environments. The project aims to advance the state-of-the-art for building secure systems by automatically placing security-critical application components within secure enclaves, reducing the programming challenges. The work includes developing a...
This $206,542 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Indiana University will fund research to address privacy accountability challenges in the mobile software supply chain. The key objectives are: 1) understanding privacy accountability risks in third-party mobile code modules, 2) designing a privacy-accountable disclosure framework, and 3) continuously enforcing privacy accountability during...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070), supports research and development to create innovative distributed security frameworks for next-generation mobile network systems. The key products and services to be delivered under this $138,295 award include: 1) developing distributed public-key infrastructure (PKI) and symmetric-key cryptography schemes compliant with NIST...
The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) was awarded a $200,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2026. Under this award, ICSI will measure, validate and improve privacy labels for mobile applications. The organization will study how these labels currently work for app developers, app store administrators and end users, and analyze mobile...
This $299,993 National Science Foundation project grant supports research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop privacy-preserving models leveraging mobility data for public health purposes. The award was made to Florida A&M University on January 1, 2022 for work concluding December 31, 2023. A sub-award of $TBD was also provided to the University of West Florida to support this research. Through this funding, the awardees will deliver...
This $225,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research at The George Washington University to develop security and privacy solutions for 5G and beyond cellular networks. Key activities include designing a heterogeneous data plane framework combining multiple programmable data plane devices for network function processing. Most...