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ISI’s Joe Carrigan Appears as Special Guest on Smashing Security Podcast
February 22, 2019
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ISI’s Lanier Watkins and team hack drones to test their vulnerabilities and more, Hacakable
December 21, 2018
ISI Lecturer Lanier Watkins and team demo their latest research on drone vulnerability at the Hopkins Campus during a recent podcast, Hackable. At first, the intention of the research was to expose issues so that manufacturers can create a safer drone, but now, the team has taken it a step further. As drones become more […]
ISI Student Awarded Ankura-Information Security Institute Scholarship
December 19, 2018
Congratulations to Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute’s graduate student Yu-Tsern Jou who was recently awarded a $3,000 Ankura-Information Security Institute Scholarship. Jou is expected to graduate in December 2018 with a MS in Security Informatics. His research interest include cryptography and blockchain. Jou has accepted a software engineer position at Bloomberg and will start shortly […]
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How to protect yourself from the giant Marriott hack, ISI’s Matthew Green, Wired
December 3, 2018
Wired reports on the massive hack affecting as many as 500 million customers who made a reservation at a Starwood hotel. Matthew Green, associate professor of computer science, is quoted.
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These legislators preach internet privacy, but they still use website tools that snoop, ISI’ Yinzhi Cao, Miami Herald
November 16, 2018
Miami Herald reports that dozens of lawmakers in Congress use tracking tools on their websites to collect personal information about online visitors, despite the fact that those lawmakers are often vocal critics of privacy practices employed by social media companies like Facebook. Yinzhi Cao, assistant professor of computer science, is quoted.
ISI Students Win Third Place and Cash Prize in Cybersecurity Competition
November 1, 2018
The Information Security Institute’s graduate students won third prize and $2,500 at Raymond James’ annual Capture the Flag cybersecurity competition. On Saturday, October 27, 2018, the financial organization hosted the event at its headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida. Graduate students representing 12 universities from around the country competed in the all-day cybersecurity challenge. Student teams […]
Solid password practice on Capital One’s site? Don’t bank on it, ISI’s Joe Carrigan, The Register
September 14, 2018
In this article, Information Security Institute’s Joe Carrigan discusses Capitol One’s password change interface and their decision to not allow users to paste their passwords into the field making the use of a password manager more difficult.
Yinzhi Cao Joins ISI Faculty
September 11, 2018
How can a self-driving car learn to avoid mistakes? How can researchers spot errors in a malware detection system before they cause problems? These are some of the questions new assistant professor Yinzhi Cao explores in his research. Cao comes to Johns Hopkins from Lehigh University, where he served as an assistant professor for the […]
ISI Host Workshop on Encryption, Surveillance, and Transparency
August 30, 2018
On August 14, 2018, the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (ISI) held a workshop on encryption, surveillance, and transparency. More than 50 people from the systems security research community, civil society, industry, and the law enforcement and intelligence communities gathered on the Homewood campus. Representatives from the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI, and the […]
New podcast co-hosted by Hopkins expert explores cybersecurity, phishing, and ways people fall for online scams
August 23, 2018
Cybercriminals are continually thinking up new ways to manipulate online users into giving up their private information. Social engineering attacks, an increasingly common hacking technique, allows scammers to target vulnerable individuals through illicit and deceptive methods. Experts at the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute have teamed up with the Cyberwire, a Baltimore-based cyber-security news […]
