BE-cybersecurity
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Engineer to develop secure data center hardware for the public cloud with NSF CAREER award
Yuanchao Xu will lead this research with the support of one of the most prestigious grants in support of early-career faculty
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UC Santa Cruz trio takes third at 2026 Mistral AI hackathon with cybersecurity platform
A team of UC Santa Cruz students and an alumnus earned third place at the 2026 Mistral AI Worldwide Hackathon in San Francisco for developing an artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity solution to help companies prevent phishing attacks.
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With fastest solver and fourth place for D1 schools, UC Santa Cruz finishes strong at 2025 Codebreaker Challenge
The challenge tasks students to develop their reverse engineering and cryptography skills using a realistic cybersecurity scenario
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Misleading text in the physical world can hijack AI-enabled robots, cybersecurity study shows
New research anticipates hijacking against AI systems in order to create defenses for a more secure future.
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UC Santa Cruz named National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research
The recognition highlights UC Santa Cruz’s research and educational contributions to advancing cybersecurity.
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Engineering undergrad is fastest to solve national codebreaker challenge for the second year in a row
Astra Tsai was the fastest student to solve the National Security Administration’s codebreaker challenge, which stimulates real-world security cases
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Computer engineering student builds cybersecurity solutions for Joby Aviation
UC Santa Cruz Computer Engineering student Shipra Ithal participated in an internship at Joby Aviation via the CITRIS Workforce Innovation Program
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UCSC students discover, help patch cybersecurity flaw for free laundry
UCSC students worked with the company that provides the app and the machines, called CSC Serviceworks, to help patch the cybersecurity flaws that could let millions of customers run loads of laundry for free.
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Ukraine blackouts caused by malware attacks warn against evolving cybersecurity threats to the physical world
A new paper presents the first study of how two major malware attacks in Ukraine operated and interacted with the physical power system equipment to cause blackouts.
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Widespread machine learning methods behind ‘link prediction’ are performing very poorly, study shows
New research from UC Santa Cruz Professor of Computer Science and Engineering C. “Sesh” Seshadhri published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences establishes that the metric used to measure link prediction performance is missing crucial information, and link prediction tasks are performing significantly worse than popular literature indicates.
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UCSC computer science student selected into Major League Hacking’s top 50 list
Rising second-year computer science student Marina Lee was chosen out of a community of 150,000 hackers for her outstanding work in developing accessible STEM education programming and building an inclusive hacking community.