Graduate students at the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHUISI) teamed up with OnBoard Security, a company that develops products for vehicle communication security, to develop a system to protect safety-related messages transmitted between two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s), often called “drones.” This collaboration succeeded at implementing a secured type of Sense and Avoid […]
WIRED reports that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol hasn’t been verifying the digital signatures on e-Passports.
Johns Hopkins University’s annual celebration of engineers’ contributions to society begins today and runs through Friday, Feb. 23 on the Homewood campus.
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.
Wired reports on a security flaw in WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption that puts group chats at risk of infiltration. Matthew Green comments.
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 >>
Gerald Masson was founder of JHU’s Information Security Institute and founding chair of the Department of Computer Science
CNBC reports on the mystery surrounding Satoshi Nakamoto—the pseudonym for the creator of the bitcoin cryptocurrency. Matthew Green, assistant professor of computer science and member of the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, is quoted.
The bug affects the ubiquitous WPA2 protocol that protects users by encrypting information that passes over wireless Internet networks—including passwords or financial or personal information.