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Cybersecurity and Cyberterrorism

Title Investigators Project Period
Consensus Framework for Informing Decision-Making in the Biological Threat Characterization Program Gary Ackerman -
Developing Impact and Effectiveness Assessment Tool for Influence Operations Steve S. Sin, Ph.D. -
Project Title Publication Date Publication Type
A Practical Taxonomy for Online Terrorist Content 2021-07-01T12:00:00 Report
A Surveillance Banner on Compromised Computer Systems Reduces Hackers’ Active Engagement 2015-07-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Advancements in the Connection Between Internet of Things (IoT) and Geospatial Technologies 2024-09-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
An Exploratory Analysis of the Characteristics of Ideologically Motivated Cyberattacks 2020-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Another Tool in the Arsenal 2016-07-02T12:00:00 Research Brief
Call to Action: Mobilizing Community Discussion to Improve Information-Sharing About Vulnerabilities in Industrial Control Systems and Critical Infrastructure 2019-07-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
Choosing Where to Fight: Do Social Networks Distinguish American ISIS Foreign Fighters from ISIS-Inspired Terrorists? 2023-03-26T12:00:00 Journal Article
Computing in Compromised Environments: Beyond the Castle Model of Cyber-Security 2016-02-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Cyber Threat posed by North Korea and China to South Korea and US Forces Korea 2009-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cyber-Dependent Crimes: An Interdisciplinary Review 2019-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Cyber-Sophistication Assessment Methodology for Public-Facing Terrorist Web Sites 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Defender–Attacker Games with Asymmetric Player Utilities 2019-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Determining Extremist Organizations' Likelihood of Conducting Cyber Attacks 2016-06-01T12:00:00 Conference Paper
Domestic Violent Extremist Targeting of the U.S. Electrical Transmission Grid 2023-11-16T12:00:00 Report
Examining Ideologically Motivated Cyberattacks Performed by Far-Left Groups 2019-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Exploring the Subculture of Ideologically Motivated Cyber-Attackers 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Hacking the Human Body: The Cyber-Bio Convergence 2019-04-01T12:00:00 White Paper
Illegal Roaming and File Manipulation on Target Computers: Assessing the Effect of Sanction Threats on System Trespassers’ Online Behaviors 2017-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Influence-to-Action Model and Campaign/Narrative Impact Assessment Tool 2022-05-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Influence-to-Action Model Development: A Tool to Assess the Impact of Foreign Influence Operations 2021-12-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Perspectives on Cybersecurity Information Sharing among Multiple Stakeholders Using a Decision-Theoretic Approach 2017-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Repression, Education, and Politically Motivated Cyberattacks 2016-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Research Brief: Significant Multi-Domain Incidents against Critical Infrastructure (SMICI) Dataset 2019-12-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Russian Government’s Narratives on Twitter in the Context of Events in the Ukraine War 2024-12-10T12:00:00 Research Brief
Significant Multi-Domain Incidents against Critical Infrastructure (SMICI) Dataset 2023-10-02T12:00:00 Research Brief
South Korean Printed and Internet Media: An Information Operations Challenge 2007-01-01T12:00:00 Report
Taxonomy Expansion and the Global Terrorism Database: Effectively Leveraging Academic Data Collection Initiatives 2021-07-01T12:00:00 Report
Terror on the Blockchain: The Emergent Crypto-Crime-Terror Nexus 2024-09-11T12:00:00 Book Chapter
The Application of Social Bookmarking Technology to the National Intelligence Domain 2006-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Damoclean Sword of Offensive Cyber: Policy Uncertainty and Collective Insecurity 2019-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Impact of Events in the War in Ukraine on Pro-Russian Narratives: The Case of Twitter 2024-05-27T12:00:00 START Reports
The Impact of Events in the War in Ukraine on Pro-Russian Narratives: The Case of Weibo and Telegram 2024-09-30T12:00:00 START Reports
U.S. Assistance to Ukraine in the Information Space: Intelligence, Cyber, and Signaling 2023-02-28T12:00:00 START Reports
When the Levee Breaks: A Global Trend of Cyber-Physical and Cyber-Operational Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure and Future Implications on the Great Power Competition 2022-09-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Title Job Title Institution
Egle Egle Murauskaite Senior Researcher & Simulation Developer, ICONS Project, START University of Maryland
Gary Ackerman Gary Ackerman Associate Professor, SUNY Albany University at Albany, State University of New York
Lafee Gary LaFree Founding Director, START
Distinguished University Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice 		University of Maryland
Joshua Freilich Joshua Freilich Professor John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Izsak Katherine Katherine Worboys Izsak Academic Director, UMD College of Information (iSchool) University of Maryland
Oleksiy Oleksiy Krylyuk Former Researcher, GTD University of Maryland
Prabhakar misra Prabhakar Misra Professor of Physics Howard University
person-default Rhyner Washburn Research Affiliate University of Maryland
Clark tyler Tyler A. Clark Data Scientist, Doctoral Student University of Maryland