Our lab visited the Pera Chorio Nisou Gymnasium School on 14/04/2022 to talk about Online Social Networks, their risks, and minor users. Our lab member, Pantelitsa Leonidou gave a talk to the students of 1st and 2nd grade, about the online risks they may experience and advised them on how to detect/avoid/handle those risks. Around … Continue Reading
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Understanding the needs of youth: Teaching Cybersecurity & Cybersafety to high-school students
Nowadays, we are trying to protect the users from online threats and attacks, keeping in mind that generally, users have no cybersecurity skills or knowledge. The idea here is to improve that baseline by having future users with basic or even advanced cybersecurity skills. How to do that? Educate the students from an early stage … Continue Reading
Michael Sirivianos showcased ReCRED at the Horizon Europe kick-starting event organized by the Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Transformation of Cyprus.
Dr Michael Sirivianos from CUT showcased ReCRED as one of the H2020 success stories in the Horizon Europe kick-starting event organized by the Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Transformation of Cyprus.
The impact of State–sponsored Trolls during the 2016 US Presidential Election Discourse
It is a widely accepted fact that state-sponsored Twitter accounts operated during the 2016 US presidential election, spreading millions of tweets with misinformation and inflammatory political content. Whether these social media campaigns of the so–called “troll” accounts were able to manipulate public opinion is still in question. In this post we discuss the findings of … Continue Reading
A “Cybersafety meeting” with Aradippou A’ Primary School students and teachers
Savvas Zannettou among the recipients of the SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award.
SigmaLive wrote about our EU-funded CONCORDIA project
SigmaLive is a Cypriot news website and the most read website in Cyprus. They wrote about our EU-funded CONCORDIA project.See more here : SigmaLive
Concordia project kick off meeting !
The CONCORDIA project ( Cyber security cOmpeteNCe fOr Research anD InnovAtion) kick off meeting took place at Universität der Bundeswehr München. See more at : https://www.concordia-h2020.eu/
The Conversation and the US News published an article highlighting our research
The Conversation published the article “Propaganda-spewing Russian trolls act differently online from regular people” highlighting our research “Disinformation Warfare: Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls on Twitter and Their Influence on the Web”. Subsequently, US News redistributed this article.
Finally, a scientific list of the most popular memes on the internet.
“Finally, a scientific list of the most popular memes on the internet. The group, from Cyprus University of Technology, University College London, University of Alabama at Birmingham and King’s College London, set out to make «the first attempt to provide a multiplatform measurement of the meme ecosystem, with a focus on fringe and potentially dangerous … Continue Reading
