Huge thanks to Institute friend and community member Nick Bargnesi from Recorded Future for an awesome, highly technical Forensic Malware Analysis workshop last night! RIC students followed along using their REMnux instances, decompiling malware and learning the tricks of the trade. Fantastic stuff!

Prepping a raspberry pi image for our upcoming K-12 teacher workshops. Look closely and you can see the computer on the chair - pretty good cpu-to-display size ratio!

We don’t have to warn Rhode Islanders about the scam DMV texts that have been aggressively making the rounds these past few weeks, but do be sure to tell your vulnerable friends and family about them! They wouldn’t keep sending them if it wasn’t working…

I asked two different LLM’s to give me a rundown of today’s cyber security headlines.
In order, here’s what I got back from Perplexity and from Google Gemini about the same story. Spot the difference?

Bias in AI is real, and it’s insidious.

We're on the move! The NSA has designated Rhode Island College as a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense, telling the world that @rhodeislandcollege.bsky.social is the gold standard for cybersecurity education! Our students are ready to hit the ground running on day one in the workforce.

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Another great networking event this week! Thanks to those who joined us for trivia and an insightful panel discussion on the state of government cybersecurity programs.

Join us for our next get-together on Tuesday, April 1st. Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/new-englan....

Great turnout last night at the New England Cybersecurity Professionals Meetup at RIC! 🔐 We had cyber trivia, an engaging panel on trends for 2025 w/ Patrick Laverty & David Albernaz, and a sneak peek at the new Cyber Range under construction. Exciting times for our community! 🙌 #CyberSecurity

Distinguished Chair Jim Langevin joined National Cyber Director Harry Coker and dozens of Rhode Island school districts as they pledged to enact a stronger network protection system to safeguard the digital privacy of our K-12 students and their teachers. Together, we will defend our schools.

Our first Institute Cyber Defense Professionals meetup went even better than expected! We hope to see everyone back again on 12/10. #cyberinstitute #cybermeetup #cybersecurity