Lanier Watkins, a team of cybersecurity experts, and students from the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute recently received two Best Paper Awards at IEEE UEMCON 2020. Held virtually this year from October 28 – 31, the annual conference provided researchers, educators, and students a platform to discuss and exchange ideas on issues, trends, and […]
Where in the world might the next cyberattack between nations take place? A new online database developed by a team of Johns Hopkins University computer scientists and international studies students predicts that there is an “extremely high likelihood” of a Russian cyberattack on Ukraine. The second most likely? The United States against Iran. The Cyber Attack […]
Nov. 3, 2020, is going to test the machinery of our elections as they’ve never been tested before. We are conducting an experiment with our voting process for the most high-stakes election of our time—in the midst of a pandemic. This is a perfect storm. In the past, security experts have worried about weaknesses in […]
By all accounts, the 2020 election will be historic. Perhaps the most emotionally charged election in the history of the United States is happening in the midst of a global pandemic. Never before has disinformation about the process of voting come directly out of the White House. The results of the election are likely to […]
Susan Hohenberger, a research professor in the Department of Computer Science, along with co-authors Venkata Koppula, a postdoctoral researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and Brent Waters, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and a distinguished scientist at NTT Research, took home a Best Paper Award at CRYPTO 2020, the field […]
