SocIoTy connects common home devices to your phone to provide extra security Smartphones are the center of our digital lives, but they are easily lost, stolen, or hacked, giving adversaries access to sensitive information. Experts at Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute have developed a new system to enhance smartphone security, transforming devices that most […]
Researchers’ new tool exposes how easily AI’s hidden instructions can be extracted Hopkins engineers have developed a method to uncover the hidden instructions that guide AI-powered applications—a breakthrough that could lead to the design of more resilient systems less vulnerable to manipulation. Led by Yinzhi Cao, technical director of the Johns Hopkins University Information Security […]
Xinyue Huang, a graduate student in the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute’s Master of Science in Security Informatics program, clinched first place among all participants at the three locations of the Amazon x Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) Capture the Flag (CTF) competition in November. Huang traveled to Amazon’s Washington, D.C. office, one of three locations […]
A team of five Johns Hopkins students earned second place in two categories at the ETHGlobal Hackathon, held in San Francisco, California in mid-October. The 36-hour event, hosted by blockchain platform ETHGlobal, brought together industry professionals, students, and more for the largest internationally recognized blockchain hackathon competition. The Hopkins team presented ChainSplash—a charitable donation application that […]
Anton “Tony” Dahbura, is executive director of the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy, and associate research scientist in computer science in the Whiting School of Engineering. With the U.S. general election less than a week away, social media platforms and online spaces are saturated with a deluge of campaign […]
A team of five Johns Hopkins students finished second in the annual Raymond James “Capture the Flag” cybersecurity competition held on Saturday, Oct. 5 in St. Petersburg, Florida. The event challenged 14 teams of students from universities across North America to solve real-world cybersecurity scenarios. This year’s results mark Johns Hopkins’ best-ever performance in the […]
The Johns Hopkins Provost’s Office has announced the five recipients of its 2024 Digital Education and Learning Technology Acceleration (DELTA) Awards, which offer grants of up to $75,000 to JHU educators seeking to enhance student learning through innovative digital technology. “EACH YEAR, I’M THOROUGHLY IMPRESSED AND INSPIRED BY THE NEW IDEAS AND CREATIVE SOLUTIONS THAT DELTA […]
Machine learning technologies hold the potential to revolutionize decision-making. But how can we ensure AI systems are free of bias? Our experts weigh in. What’s in a name? Sometimes, more than might be expected. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Anjalie Field has shown that something as seemingly innocuous as people’s names can offer insight into how […]
Recently, a hacked version of ChatGPT called “Godmode” was released. The rogue LLM, which provided users with instructions on cooking napalm using ingredients found at home and hotwiring a car, only lasted a few hours before being shut down by OpenAI. Yinzhi Cao, an assistant professor of computer science at Whiting School of Engineering and […]
Qian Wang, a recent graduate of the Whiting School of Engineering’s Information Security Institute’s Master of Science in Security Informatics program, attended the RSA Conference 2024 in San Francisco in early May. The conference focuses on cybersecurity and related topics. Wang was selected to attend the conference as an RSAC Security Scholar, a program that […]
