Cutting-edge research plays a key role in advancing the security and privacy of users across the Internet. To accelerate the next generation of security and privacy breakthroughs, Google has created the Security and Privacy Research Awards. In February 2019, Google announced that Matthew Green, cryptographer and assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Information Security Institute, […]

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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 […]

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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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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.

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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