WSE celebrates 2018 National Engineers Week
February 16, 2018
Johns Hopkins University’s annual celebration of engineers’ contributions to society begins today and runs through Friday, Feb. 23 on the Homewood campus.
News: News Headlines
WSE In The News
The Analytics Guy Failed to Compute One Thing: How to Be Accepted in Mexico, ISI Anton Dahbura, The New York Times
January 12, 2018
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.
WSE In The News
WhatsApp Security Flaws Could Allow Snoops to Slide Into Group Chats, ISI’ Matthew Green, Wired
January 10, 2018
Wired reports on a security flaw in WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption that puts group chats at risk of infiltration. Matthew Green comments.
WSE In The News
Huge security flaws revealed – and tech companies can barely keep up, ISI’ Avi Rubin, The Washington Post
January 9, 2018
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 >>
Johns Hopkins computer scientist, cybersecurity expert Gerald Masson dies at 74
November 28, 2017
Gerald Masson was founder of JHU’s Information Security Institute and founding chair of the Department of Computer Science
WSE In The News
‘Crypto Anchors’ Might Stop the Next Equifax-Style Megabreach, CS/ISI’s Matthew Green, Wired
October 12, 2017
Matthew Green comments on the wider adoption of crypto anchors taking place at some tech firms.
WSE In The News
465k patients told to visit doctor to patch critical pacemaker vulnerability, JHUISI’ Matthew Green, Ars Technica
September 1, 2017
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Pacemakers have thousands of vulnerabilities hackers can exploit, study finds, JHUISI’ Matt Green, Quartz
June 5, 2017
Quartz reports on a recent report that uncovered a number of security vulnerabilities in pacemakers.
WannaCry ransomware: What it is and what you need to know
May 17, 2017
Johns Hopkins computer scientists Matt Green and Avi Rubin discuss the cyberattack holding computers hostage around the world.
