Johns Hopkins grad students work to prevent hacking attacks on drones
March 27, 2018
Cybersecurity students partner with OnBoard Security to enhance UAV safety.
News & Events
JHUISI Students Participate in 2018 Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge
March 20, 2018
Thirty-eight teams from 26 universities in 14 states competed in the sixth annual Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge. Sponsored by the Atlantic Council and MITRE Corporation, the competition is designed to offer students in diverse academic disciplines the opportunity to engage in a policy exercise in cyber conflict. Students are confronted with a cyber policy challenge and must respond with […]
Hopkins Mechanical Engineering students Partner with the Information Security Institute to Assess Security of Authentication System
March 19, 2018
Senior Mechanical Engineering (ME) students have developed an authentication and authorization system that will be used to grant or deny access to machinery in the Whiting School’s machine shop. In order to use a machine in the machine shop, a person must have been trained on that machine and have a budget to which machine […]
How Secure Is Mobile Banking? ISI’s Joe Carrigan, The Wall Street Journal
March 19, 2018
Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute’s Senior Security Engineer Joe Carrigan on the safety of mobile banking, ‘I wouldn’t do mobile banking with a bank that doesn’t have some kind of two-factor authentication.” Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal >>
Johns Hopkins Researchers and OnBoard Security Team Up to Protect Drones
February 23, 2018
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 […]
WSE In The News
U.S. Border Patrol Hasn’t Validated E-Passport Data for Years, ISI’s Matthew Green, WIRED
February 23, 2018
WIRED reports that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol hasn’t been verifying the digital signatures on e-Passports.
WSE celebrates 2018 National Engineers Week
February 16, 2018
Johns Hopkins University’s annual celebration of engineers’ contributions to society begins today and runs through Friday, Feb. 23 on the Homewood campus.
WSE In The News
The Analytics Guy Failed to Compute One Thing: How to Be Accepted in Mexico, ISI Anton Dahbura, The New York Times
January 12, 2018
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.
WSE In The News
WhatsApp Security Flaws Could Allow Snoops to Slide Into Group Chats, ISI’ Matthew Green, Wired
January 10, 2018
Wired reports on a security flaw in WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption that puts group chats at risk of infiltration. Matthew Green comments.
