Ashutosh Dutta appointed three-year term as a Distinguished Speaker for ACM
July 29, 2020
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4 Experts Agree: Craig Wright’s Latest Cryptography Claims Are ‘Nonsense’, ISI’s Matt Green, Coindesk
July 29, 2020
WSE In The News
House lawmakers agree secure remote voting is possible, but implementation still divides, Roll Call, ISI’s Avi Rubin
July 23, 2020
If lawmakers or staff notice that an intended vote position was incorrect or cannot access the system, a backup process would need to be available, said Avi Rubin, professor and technical director at the the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute. Read more at Roll Call.
Johns Hopkins Aids Effort To Build A Secure Smart Home, ISI’s Avi Rubin, The Hub
July 2, 2020
Smart homes of today—with lights, refrigerators, and Alexa all talking to each other—aren’t nearly as smart as they need to be to thwart virtual burglars from breaking in. To address the massive security threat to interconnected devices known as the Internet of Things, or IoT, Johns Hopkins University and six other institutions are embarking […]
Ashutosh Dutta appointed chair of Engineering for Professionals’ Electrical and Computer Engineering
July 1, 2020
Ashutosh Dutta, a senior scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, on his appointment as chair of Engineering for Professionals’ Electrical and Computer Engineering program, effective July 1. This program prepares students to develop systems for computation, communications, information transformation, power generation and transmission, and measurement and control. A highly accomplished electrical engineer […]
WSE In The News
Here’s when you can trust Zoom and when you shouldn’t, ISI’s Matt Green, Fast Company
June 11, 2020
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Zoom tries to address privacy, security concerns, ISI’s Matt Green, Politico
June 11, 2020
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So Wait, How Encrypted Are Zoom Meetings Really? ISI’s Matt Green, Wired
June 11, 2020
New ISI course uncovers online scams used by cyber criminals
April 29, 2020
Phishing scammers, beware! Information Security Institute’s graduate student fall course, Cybersecurity Hygiene & Literacy in a Digital Age, will expose all your online conning tactics. For Karol Pierre, the course instructor, it’s personal. While finishing up her typical day of classes during her sophomore year at Villanova University, she called her parents, presumably home in […]
New outbreak model better predicts COVID-19 hotspots, ISI’s Tony Dahbura, The Hub
April 27, 2020
Viruses, such as the one that causes COVID-19, spread quickly through large cities because of a complex web of interactions between people taking place in a densely populated area. But how viruses move from person to person in smaller, rural communities is less well understood, resulting in public health and economic decisions that are […]
