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Researchers Create Way to Protect UAVs from Cyber Attacks
March 7, 2018
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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 […]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Huge security flaws revealed – and tech companies can barely keep up, ISI’ Avi Rubin, The Washington Post
January 9, 2018
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 >>
Johns Hopkins computer scientist, cybersecurity expert Gerald Masson dies at 74
November 28, 2017
Gerald Masson was founder of JHU’s Information Security Institute and founding chair of the Department of Computer Science
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Bitcoin’s creator may be worth $6 billion—but people still don’t know who it is, ISI’ Matthew Green, CNBC
October 27, 2017
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.
KRACK in the code: Software flaw affects security of nearly every Wi-Fi enabled device
October 17, 2017
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.
