Capture the Flag Event Highlights The Recypher team in collaboration with LUMS Women in Computing (LWiC) organized a “Capture The Flag (CTF)” event at LUMS on July 15, 2023. This was a one-day boot-camp event with the objective of raising awareness among participants against the cybersecurity threats and guide them Read more…
Cybersecurity Awareness Center Set Up at LUMS The Cyber Security Awareness Centre at LUMS is established to promote cybersecurity awareness and to educate students and professionals about security vulnerabilities, cyber-attacks, and defense mechanisms. The center offers an open invitation to everyone interested in attending interactive sessions conducted by the RECYPHER Read more…
CYBERSECURITY Capture the Flag by LUMS Women in Computing (LWiC) LUMS Women in Computing (LWiC) is excited to announce that the first-ever Cybersecurity Capture the Flag (CTF) event is now on the 15th of July 2023, at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. CTF is an international event, and we are proud to introduce it in Read more…
Authors: Taha and Afaq Ashraf (TODO affiliations) Problem/Motivation While the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated internet growth and made life easier for the masses, it increased the incidence of cybercrime worldwide. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) reported receiving 17,000 cybercrime-related complaints in 2020, a 40% increase compared to reports received in 2019. Read more…
Author: Noshaba Nasir (Noshaba is a former Research Associate at SIA LUMS and currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland Baltimore County) Money-making mobile phones have accumulated massive downloads and users over the years and are very popular in countries such as India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Previous research Read more…
Author: Sumair Ijaz Hashmi (currently a junior and Research Assistant at SIA LUMS, and summer intern at CISPA) Society today is highly dependent on digital communication platforms as a means to connect with people from across the world. Whatsapp is one such platform that is widely popular because of its Read more…
Author: Sumair Ijaz Hashmi (currently a junior and Research Assistant at SIA LUMS, and summer intern at CISPA) Voice-based phishing attacks (vishing or commonly known as scam calls) involve scammers who try to convince victims over a phone call to perform actions of the attackers’ choosing, such as transferring money Read more…
Author: Zain Sarwar (former UG student and Research Assistant at SIA LUMS, currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago) Recent advances in deep learning have enabled language models to produce high-quality text which is often indistinguishable from human-written text. While this reflects significant progress in generative modeling, these Read more…
September 26, 2022, and September 27, 2022 Agenda Research Marketplace (Career Paths of Graduates) Presentations by Project Partners (Security in Study Programs of Partner University) Open Discussion (The Future is Interdisciplinary – How can we build bridges to other disciplines?) Group Activity (Review of Job Advertisements) Open Discussion(Interdisciplinary Competences and Read more…
September 25, 2022 All of the Recypher project partners, visited Walled city Lahore on September 25, 2022.