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2025 Media Coverage and Press Releases

Article Title Source Date
Researchers lead project to fortify Canada's cybersecurity Engineering 11/13/2025
Meng Xu and Sihang Liu awarded $254k from National Cybersecurity Consortium to strengthen security of LLM agents Cheriton School of Computer Science 11/13/2025
Dr. Alec Cram awarded $223K in National Cybersecurity Consortium funding for human-centric cybersecurity research project School of Accounting and Finance 11/13/2025
Anudeep Das and collaborators awarded $58,100 USD from Open Philanthropy to advance research on stealthy and resilient LLM backdoors Cheriton School of Computer Science 09/29/2025
Robots are prone to privacy leaks despite encryption Waterloo News 09/22/2025
Cybersecurity researchers win big at ARES 2025 for robotics research Cheriton School of Computer Science 09/22/2025
Exploring Safe Child-Robot Interactions at ICSR 2025 Safe Interactions Lab

09/20/2025

Global Futures Fund awards Waterloo faculty and their interdisciplinary teams with more than $2.2 million Waterloo News 09/09/2025
Diogo Barradas wins FOCI Rising Star Award for advances in censorship-resistant communications Cheriton School of Computer Science 07/28/2025
What is quishing: How QR code scams steal your data — and why they’re hard to detect InsideHalton.com 07/23/2025
Watermarks offer no defence against deepfakes Waterloo News 07/23/2025
Two CPI members have received a 2024 Outstanding Performance Award Cheriton School of Computer Science 07/08/2025
Anudeep Das, Vasisht Duddu, Rui Zhang and N. Asokan win Best Paper Award at CODASPY 2025 Cheriton School of Computer Science 06/11/2025
Are public charging stations safe? What you need to know about ‘juice jacking’ and how to protect your phone from hackers InsideHalton.com 05/26/2025
Can I delete my 23andMe DNA data? Here’s everything Canadians need to know before the DNA data auction in May InsideHalton.com 04/22/2025
Smishing texts can trick you into turning off your iPhone’s security protections. Here’s why replying to scammers is a bad idea Waterloochronicle.ca 03/25/2025
Vasisht Duddu awarded 2024 IBM PhD Fellowship Cheriton School of Computer Science 02/14/2025
Cheriton researchers awarded $1.6M from CFI and ORF to protect security and privacy of Canadians Cheriton School of Computer Science 02/10/2025
Interop Labs Pledges $1 Million to Advance Blockchain and AI Research at University of Waterloo The Defiant 02/06/2025

Cybersecurity Experts Explain Why China's Alleged U.S. Treasury Hack Is a Big Deal

Newsweek 01/07/2025

2024 Media Coverage and Press Releases

Article Title Source Date

More Frequent—and Disruptive—Tech Outages Are on the Way

MacLean's 12/17/2024

University of Waterloo leads the way for AI literacy in Canada with online course

Waterloo Region Record 12/10/2024

Waterloo is leading the way in AI education across society

Waterloo News 12/04/2024
Waterloo EDC 12/04/2024

Man living in Kitchener, Ont. alleged to be involved in massive data breach

CTV News Kitchener 11/27/2024

Robotics cybersecurity training program receives $1 million in funding

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering - UWaterloo 11/01/2024

Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute secures $1.5M in funding

Waterloo News 11/01/2024

National Cybersecurity Consortium Distributes $22.8M in Funding to Advance Canadian Digital Security

NCC 10/16/2024

Tackling Canada’s cybersecurity challenges

Waterloo News 10/11/2024

Security researchers honoured with 2024 Best Portuguese Internet Research Award by ISOC.pt

Cheriton School of Computer Science 10/09/2024

Reshaping and securing Canada’s digital future

Waterloo News 10/04/2024

UW and IBM spinoff Kyndryl unveil cybersecurity partnership

Waterloo Region Record 09/25/2024

UW partners with IT firm to improve cybersecurity research

CityNews 09/24/2024
Kyndryl collaborates with University of Waterloo’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute Kyndryl 09/24/2024

Biometrics in the workplace may be the way of the future. But at what cost?

CBC Radio 08/25/2024

Job scam exposed: Spam text scheme turns victims into "money mules"

Global News 08/13/2024

Solving the crisis: Securing our digital privacy

Waterloo News 08/09/2024

Gautam Kamath and international colleagues win best paper award at ICML 2024

Cheriton School of Computer Science 07/25/2024

Critical sectors short on cybersecurity pros

07/22/2024

Professor Xi He wins the Golden Jubilee Research Excellence Award

Cheriton School of Computer Science 07/19/2024

Gautam Kamath and colleagues win 2024 Caspar Bowden PET Award

Cheriton School of Computer Science 07/17/2024

TTC lacked proper measures to prevent 2021 cyberattack despite internal warning years earlier: reports

CTV News 07/02/2024

Vasisht Duddu, Sebastian Szyller and N. Asokan receive Distinguished Paper Award at 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Cheriton School of Computer Science 06/21/2024

The Pros and Cons of Alcohol Deregulation

The Agenda with Steve Paikin 06/04/2024

Quantum Connections Conference at University of Waterloo Emphasizes Collaborative Solutions for Addressing Quantum’s Societal Impact

India Education Diary 05/15/2024

Exploring Canada’s quantum future

Waterloo News 05/07/2024

Meet the students that broke the vending machine story

Waterloo News 05/07/2024

Q&A: Legal implications of generative artificial intelligence

TechXplore 04/17/2024

BTQ Technologies Joins the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at the University of Waterloo

The Globe and Mail 03/13/2024

University of Waterloo cryptographer helps protect iMessages from quantum hackers

Waterloo Region Record 03/02/2024

EDRM’s Upcoming Workshop Deep Dives into Generative AI with eDiscovery Experts

EIN Presswire 02/26/2024

Protect Good Faith Security Research Globally in Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty

Electronic Frontier Foundation 02/07/2024
Age of e-Discovery: Generative AI could revolutionize e-discovery - but buyer beware ABA Journal 02/01/2024
Keeping Deepfakes Out of Court May Take Shared Effort Government Technology.com 01/24/2024

Artificial Intelligence: Can It be Trusted?

Inside the Perimeter 01/19/2024

Can we really trust AI?

Waterloo News 01/18/2024

2020 Media Coverage and Press Releases

Article Title Source Date
Lessons Learned From the Redtail Data Breach                  Wealth Management 03/16/2020