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Cybersecurity and Cyberterrorism

Cybersecurity and Cyberterrorism

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Project Title	Investigators	Project Period
Developing Impact and Effectiveness Assessment Tool for Influence Operations	Steve Sin	January, 2021 to May, 2022
Consensus Framework for Informing Decision-Making in the Biological Threat Characterization Program	Gary Ackerman	September, 2013 to September, 2014

Project Title	Publication Date	START Authors	Publication Type
Hacking the Human Body: The Cyber-Bio Convergence	April 2019	Earnhardt, Rebecca (Becca)	White Paper
Research Brief: Significant Multi-Domain Incidents against Critical Infrastructure (SMICI) Dataset	December 2019	Washburn, Rhyner; Sin, Steve	Research Brief
A Surveillance Banner on Compromised Computer Systems Reduces Hackers’ Active Engagement	July 2015	Maimon, David	Research Brief
Taxonomy Expansion and the Global Terrorism Database: Effectively Leveraging Academic Data Collection Initiatives	July 2021	Miller, Erin	Report
A Practical Taxonomy for Online Terrorist Content	July 2021	Braniff, William	Report
Repression, Education, and Politically Motivated Cyberattacks	August 2016	Young, Joseph; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Exploring the Subculture of Ideologically Motivated Cyber-Attackers	April 2017	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Cyber-Sophistication Assessment Methodology for Public-Facing Terrorist Web Sites	April 2017	Ligon, Gina Scott	Journal Article
Illegal Roaming and File Manipulation on Target Computers: Assessing the Effect of Sanction Threats on System Trespassers’ Online Behaviors	August 2017	Maimon, David	Journal Article
Perspectives on Cybersecurity Information Sharing among Multiple Stakeholders Using a Decision-Theoretic Approach	August 2017	Zhuang, Jun	Journal Article
Cyber-Dependent Crimes: An Interdisciplinary Review	January 2019	Maimon, David	Journal Article
Examining Ideologically Motivated Cyberattacks Performed by Far-Left Groups	January 2019	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
The Damoclean Sword of Offensive Cyber: Policy Uncertainty and Collective Insecurity	March 2019	Leuprecht, Christian	Journal Article
Defender–Attacker Games with Asymmetric Player Utilities	September 2019	Zhuang, Jun	Journal Article
The Application of Social Bookmarking Technology to the National Intelligence Domain	June 2006	Ackerman, Gary	Journal Article
An Exploratory Analysis of the Characteristics of Ideologically Motivated Cyberattacks	August 2020	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Determining Extremist Organizations' Likelihood of Conducting Cyber Attacks	June 2016	Washburn, Rhyner; Sin, Steve	Conference Paper
Call to Action: Mobilizing Community Discussion to Improve Information-Sharing About Vulnerabilities in Industrial Control Systems and Critical Infrastructure	July 2019	Washburn, Rhyner	Conference Paper
Computing in Compromised Environments: Beyond the Castle Model of Cyber-Security	February 2016	Leuprecht, Christian	Book Chapter

Title	Byline
Unconventional Weapons and Technology (UWT) researchers present at 79th Midwest Political Science Association Conference
Unconventional Weapons and Technology team present research on influence operations at Laboratory for Analytic Sciences symposium	Erin Copland
START research travels far in the cyber-physical domain	Erin Copland
UWT director speaks about influence operations for Laboratory for Analytic Sciences podcast	Erin Copland
New Modern War Institute article series focuses on cyber and influence operations	Erin Copland
START formalizes commitment to Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism	Erin Copland
START team develops dataset on cyberattacks against critical infrastructure	Erin Copland
START Newsletter: Global terrorism increasing; GTD 2012 dataset released; New cyber research
Study finds that warning banners deter hackers	Mary Beck
START seeking 2014 Outstanding Article Award nominations	Jessica Rivinius
Call for Proposals: Interactive teaching units on human aspects of cybersecurity
LaFree gives talk at Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
START students discuss job opportunities with Lockheed Martin executives	Samantha Goldman
START researchers fight cybercrime with old school criminology	Samantha Goldman
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06

Image	Title	Job Title	Institution
	Egle Murauskaite	Senior Researcher & Simulation Developer, ICONS Project, START	University of Maryland
	Gary Ackerman	Associate Professor, SUNY Albany	University at Albany, State University of New York
	Gary LaFree	Founding Director, START; Chair, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice	University of Maryland
	Joshua Freilich	Professor	John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
	Katherine Worboys Izsak	Academic Director, UMD College of Information (iSchool)	University of Maryland
	Oleksiy Krylyuk	Researcher, GTD	University of Maryland
	Prabhakar Misra	Professor of Physics	Howard University
	Rhyner Washburn	Cyber Intelligence Researcher, START	University of Maryland
	Steve Sin	Director, Unconventional Weapons and Technology (UWT) Subject Matter Expert Instructor, National Center for Security & Preparedness	University of Maryland
	Tyler A. Clark	Data Scientist, Doctoral Student	University of Maryland

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