In 2009, an anonymous software developer named Satoshi Nakamoto developed Bitcoin. Run by a network of volunteer computers, Bitcoin has seen explosive growth over the past seven years: going from pennies to nearly $1,000 per coin in the fall of 2016. Yet for all its success, Bitcoin has a key limitation: payments made on the […]
Avi Rubin, professor of computer science and technical director of the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, and several cyber security experts spoke with NPR regarding reports that President Donald Trump may still be using a potentially unsecured phone to tweet.
On NPR’s TED Radio Hour, Avi Rubin, professor of computer science and technical director of the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, says that all of our smart devices can be hacked.
OpenVPN, a widely used virtual private networking technology, will be audited for security flaws by Matthew Green, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute.
The spotlight in baseball tends to fall on the clutch moment, the final inning, the key at-bat with the game on the line. But players also reveal themselves when the team’s got little to gain or lose. In time for Major League Baseball’s winter meetings this week, a team of computer scientists from the Johns […]
This fall, Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute (JHUISI) appointed Adjunct Associate Research Scientist Seth Nielson as Director of Advanced Research Projects. “Seth brings to JHUISI the ideal combination of talents and experience to be able to focus on new opportunities in the information security space for JHUISI’s faculty and research staff,” said Anton Dahbura, Executive […]
Matthew Green, assistant professor of computer science, comments on the support for file-based encryption in Android 7.0 Nougat and its imperfections.
