This week JHUISI host members from the Beijing Universities Alliance of Excellent Engineer Education Program! The group is led by Beihang University (through its Ecole Centrale PEKIN school, a collaboration with a French university). Eighteen junior students from 17 universities around Beijing, China will participate in a one-week engineering education enrichment program at the Homewood […]

Read More

The Guardian reports that cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab denies allegations that they played an active role in the hack of an NSA contractor in 2015. Matthew Green is quoted.

Visit Site

Visit Site

The recent Equifax breach, which compromised the personal data of more than 143 million American consumers, was a frequent topic of conversation during the fourth annual Cyber Security Conference held Tuesday at Johns Hopkins University. It topped conference organizer Anton Dahbura‘s “Unlucky 13” list of cyber concerns that have come to light in the past two weeks. Yes—that’s 13 concerns […]

Read More

Visit Site

Nine years ago this October, a mysterious figure named Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper entitiled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” on a cryptography mailing list. The subsequent years have made for an electrifying ride. Once valued at a rate of 10,000 Bitcoins for a pizza, this September the price of Bitcoin reached a […]

Read More

Computer breaches seem to be increasing in frequency and severity around the world, causing the leadership of organizations large and small to assess whether they’re doing enough to protect their data. At the 4th Annual Cyber Security Conference for Executives, hosted by COMPASS Cyber Security and the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, leading-edge presenters […]

Read More

The Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHUISI) was recently awarded a grant from the Centers for Academic Excellence (CAE). The grant funds JHUISI to develop a distributable course to introduce community college students to topics at the forefront of cybersecurity research.  “There is a real shortage of people to fill the cybersecurity positions in […]

Read More

Visit Site

The Verge reports on the recent takedown of one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges. Matthew Green, assistant professor of computer science and member of the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, is quoted.

Visit Site