J. Alex Halderman

Election security expert J. Alex Halderman dissects Antrim County’s election debacle to help future contests go more smoothly.

Today, over 225 million websites are protected by free certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt.

Expert advice for voting in an unprecedented election.

The upcoming presidential election in the middle of a pandemic has jurisdictions exploring new technologies. They’re not secure.

The projects impact voting systems, physical sensors, integrated circuit fabrication, and multiple microarchitectural side-channel vulnerabilities.

The team will develop a secure, data-intensive network solution to effectively transport extremely high volumes of research data on and off campus.

Researchers carried out the first study on voter behavior with electronic assistive devices, found 93% missed incorrect ballots.

A Q&A with J. Alex Halderman, who co-founded the nonprofit organization.

Technology pioneered by Michigan researchers can circumvent many effective website blocking tools

Halderman will work to further educate lawmakers, future cybersecurity experts, and the public about how to ensure that election results can relied upon and verified

The meeting began the commission’s review and assessment of election security in Michigan.

The effort seeks to protect the integrity of every vote.

In congressional testimony, professor urges $370M in federal funding to replace outdated machines.

McDonald works to develop better privacy and security tools for marginalized communities

A new special topics course on election cybersecurity gives students an examination of the past, present, and future of US elections.

When it comes to their smartphones, immigrants struggle to apply instinctive caution, according to a study by a team of University of Michigan researchers.

Professor Alex Halderman and the New York Times staged a mock election to demonstrate voting machine vulnerability.

In this video, CSE PhD Student Matt Bernhard weighs in on the matter Facebook data harvesting, such as that done by Cambridge Analytica.

Censys is the first commercially available internet-wide scanning tool. It helps IT experts to secure large networks with a constantly changing array of devices.

His remarks focused on vulnerabilities in the US voting system and a policy agenda for securing the system against the threat of hacking.

The evening’s program included a screening of I Voted? and a lecture by Prof. Halderman.

DROWN allows attackers to break encryption used to protect HTTPS websites and read or steal sensitive communications.

In order to bring HTTPS to everyone, Prof. Halderman joined forces in 2012 with colleagues at Mozilla and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to found Let’s Encrypt, a non-profit certificate authority with the mission of making the switch to HTTPS vastly easier.

Let's Encrypt allows anyone to request a free website security certificate without needing an invitation.

In their paper, the researchers present the first report on global adoption rates of SMTP email security extensions.

Diffie-Hellman is a popular algorithm used for encrypted communications, including emails VPNs, HTTPS, and other protocols where a client and server negotiate a shared secret key for communication

Halderman has met significant contributions in the areas of electronic voting security, internet security, and electronic censorship resistance.

This project strives to positively impact the availability and reliability of the Internet and provide the security community with tools, platforms, and comprehensive vulnerability measurement data.

A CSE graduate student, Durumeric’s work focuses on developing quantitative, measurement-based approaches to combat threats against hosts and networks on the Internet.

Congratulations to the faculty members that received promotions this year.

Securing Internet voting requires solving some of the hardest problems in computer security, and even the smallest mistakes can undermine the integrity of the election result.

The professorship is awarded to junior faculty members in recognition of outstanding contributions to teaching and research.

The foundation honors researchers it deems “rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders,” according to a statement. The fellows, who were nominated by their peers and chosen by a panel of senior scholars, each receives $50,000 to further their research.

Prof. Halderman’s research interests span software security, network security, data privacy, anonymity, electronic voting, censorship resistance, digital rights management, computer forensics, ethics, and cybercrime, as well as the interaction of technology with law, governmental regulation, and international affairs.

Congratulations to the following CSE Faculty recipients of 2014-15 College of Engineering Awards.

A project is underway which will offer a free, automated, and easy process for converting webservers from HTTP to HTTPS that is implemented with a single command.

The research team performed a comprehensive, measurement-based analysis of the impact of the recent Heartbleed vulnerability.