Projects

Using publicly available data along with data compiled by the Temple University CARE Lab under Dr. Aunshul Rege, Ian is researching conditions surrounding Ransomware incidents to identify common patterns and trends among victims. With this data, he hopes to then map consistent patterns by threat actors and create greater awareness to the best mitigation steps to interrupt the flow of ransomware attacks that occur more frequently with each day.

Annemarie's project is to go through and explain the basics of Wireshark. She will explain what Wireshark does, and how to read through and sort the information it collects, as well as what some of the basic forms of internet protocol are. She will also go through some of the ways to customize Wireshark for ease of reading through the material you are looking for.

Anna analyzes and reverse engineers compiled machine code with a specific focus on Malware. She identifies and categorizes malware in order to spot common attack vectors so she can better identity exploits that malware might use. She practices with simulated reverse engineering challenges using Ghidra and GDB before analyzing real malware in a virtual environment. Through this project, Anna hopes to learn indicators of compromise that malware produces and how security researchers can reverse engineer malicious code.

Justin is creating a tool in Python that will implement the new academic password cracking model called TarGuess. Building upon open source PCFG software, he is modifying it to implement the most effective targeted password cracking model to date.

For Kate's personal project in this research lab, she is working on increasing her knowledge of reverse engineering. Kate started by finding and completing different tutorials/challenges that she found online. These resources that she has found has helped her learn and practice different tools and techniques to use in reverse engineering. Going further with this project, she plans to continue working with different reverse engineering tools and plans to learn more skills related to reverse engineering positions in the cybersecurity industry.

Anaïs is learning how to use the software Tableau for her personal project. This consists of reading through documentation, watching tutorials, and interacting with the software itself with mock data in order to gain a comprehensive understanding. This data visualization software will help with research in the lab as well as any future development projects Anaïs may build in the future.

Drew is writing Python scripts to gather and analyze Search Engine Optimization (SEO) data with the intent to develop a better understanding of how search engines index and rank sites in search results. His goal is to develop skills in web scraping that can be automated to gather metadata and key information about a site, and gain an understanding of how search engines synthesize that data to provide Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs).