Hopkins professor wins big on poker class bet
January 30, 2020
Nearly 250 students registered for the class, which had lectures focused on strategy, calculating odds, and Machiavellian maneuvers and ended with a home tournament.
News & Events
Three Johns Hopkins engineers named as fellows of IEEE
December 5, 2019
Ashutosh Dutta, Michael Miller, and Tza-Huei (Jeff) Wang were recognized for outstanding contributions to IEEE fields of interest.
ISI’s Ashutosh Dutta named an IEEE Fellow
December 5, 2019
Ashutosh Dutta, senior wireless research scientist and Lawrence R. Hafstad Sabbatical Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and an adjunct faculty member at WSE’s Information Security Institute, has been named an IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2020. “Fellow” is the highest designation that the IEEE bestows, and is reserved for those who […]
WSE In The News
Does encryption help with privacy, or does it violate public safety?, ISI’s Matthew Green, Marketplace
October 10, 2019
Matthew Green, associate professor of computer science and member of the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, offers insight.
On the Road: Shagging in Hagerstown, ISI’ Tony Dahbura, MiLB.com
September 18, 2019
Dahbura’s “dabbling” in the world of baseball scheduling is, literally, a whole other story. Via his role as executive director of Johns Hopkins University’s Information Security Institute, Dahbura works with students and faculty in the applied math and statistics department to create computer-generated optimized schedules for a variety of Minor League Baseball circuits. Read […]
New ISI curriculum will soon be available online for community colleges and more
September 9, 2019
The Information Security Institute (ISI) has developed a series of online video presentations that will introduce students to a broad range of topics in cybersecurity. The course is targeted toward students enrolled in community colleges and will be made available at no cost to any educational institution that wants it. The course was funded by […]
Baltimore ransom: what’s next?
September 6, 2019
Avi Rubin, Information Security Institute’s Technical Director, gives opinion on Baltimore ransomware’s latest developments. This year, Baltimore was hit with a sophisticated, nasty ransomware attack. The incident crippled much of the city’s IT infrastructure and brought such things as utility bill payments and real estate transactions to a halt. The outage lasted months and estimates […]
New ISI course provides safeguards for smart technologies
September 5, 2019
It’s hard to imagine a world without smartphones, cellular, Wifi, Bluetooth, or GPS. These are just a few examples of wireless networks that have forever changed society. A 2018 study from ABI Research predicted there will be over 35 billion connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices worldwide by 2023. As a result, internet access will […]
Welcome to ISI!
September 3, 2019
Since its founding 19 years ago, ISI has been a vibrant focal point for information security research and education. Our research scope has grown with the recent addition of Assistant Professor Yinzhi Cao, with varied interests in areas such as web security and privacy, mobile security and privacy, and machine learning security and privacy. Of […]
How One Texas County Stopped a Ransomware Attack, ISI’s Avi Rubin, WSJ
August 30, 2019
“Ransomware has been around for quite some time,” said Avi Rubin, professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University and technical director of the Information Security Institute. “But recently, the big targets have been municipalities and local governments because they tend to have lower IT budgets than they should.” Malwarebytes, a company that specializes in cybersecurity, said […]
