Thirty-eight teams from 26 universities in 14 states competed in the sixth annual Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge. Sponsored by the Atlantic Council and MITRE Corporation, the competition is designed to offer students in diverse academic disciplines the opportunity to engage in a policy exercise in cyber conflict. Students are confronted with a cyber policy challenge and must respond with […]
Senior Mechanical Engineering (ME) students have developed an authentication and authorization system that will be used to grant or deny access to machinery in the Whiting School’s machine shop. In order to use a machine in the machine shop, a person must have been trained on that machine and have a budget to which machine […]
Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute’s Senior Security Engineer Joe Carrigan on the safety of mobile banking, ‘I wouldn’t do mobile banking with a bank that doesn’t have some kind of two-factor authentication.” Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal >>
Graduate students at the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHUISI) teamed up with OnBoard Security, a company that develops products for vehicle communication security, to develop a system to protect safety-related messages transmitted between two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s), often called “drones.” This collaboration succeeded at implementing a secured type of Sense and Avoid […]
WIRED reports that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol hasn’t been verifying the digital signatures on e-Passports.
Johns Hopkins University’s annual celebration of engineers’ contributions to society begins today and runs through Friday, Feb. 23 on the Homewood campus.
Anton Dahbura’s work in baseball analytics and the difficulty of gaining acceptance for sabermetrics in the Mexican baseball system is profiled in The New York Times.
Wired reports on a security flaw in WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption that puts group chats at risk of infiltration. Matthew Green comments.
The Washington Post reports on Meltdown and Spectre, newly discovered types of security flaws. Avi Rubin, professor of computer science, comments. Read more at The Washington Post >>
