Tony Dahbura, Director of ISI, has been quoted in Consumer Reports recent publication on the changing world of virtual reproductive care. Illustration by: Kiersten Essenpreis While online telehealth visits surged during the pandemic, consumers now seeking remote reproductive health services face a number of privacy and legal challenges Understand The Risks of Searches and Conversations […]
BY MICHAEL EISENSTEIN // ILLUSTRATIONS BY DAN PAGE Threats to cybersecurity loom large in today’s world, putting us all at risk of being exploited by bad actors. Whiting School experts are focused on spotting cyber vulnerabilities and defending against them—a never-ending task, where the villains’ tactics are evolving just as rapidly as the technology they exploit. […]
The New York Times released their list of top podcasts on “The Dark Side of the Internet,” listing Hacking Humans cohosted by ISI’s Joe Carrigan. Hosted on The CyberWire, Hacking Humans is a weekly podcast highlighting social engineering scams, phishing scams, and criminal exploits of cyberattacks that are taking tolls on organizations and individuals around […]
The National Science Foundation CyberCorps grant will aid in the development of a robust cybersecurity workforce. Cybersecurity efforts and infrastructures are paramount to protect the digital world from ever-growing cybersecurity threats. Working to combat these threats and bolster national cybersecurity, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (ISI) […]
Resilience in the face of ransomware: considerations for executives. By Tim Nodar, the CyberWire staff At the 8th Annual Cybersecurity Conference for Executives, hosted by Ankura and the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHU ISI) on March 16th, industry experts discussed cybersecurity trends, regulations, and threats. IMAGE COURTESY OF THE CYBERWIRE Ankura’s Christopher Todd Doss […]
IMAGE COURTESY: Intelligencer and Getty Images From the 2016 election to a spree of ransomware attacks that disrupted private industry last summer, Americans are all too familiar with the chaos Russian hackers can create. But during the first two weeks of Russia’s Ukraine invasion, the cybercriminals in league with the Kremlin haven’t played a major role. Anton Dahbura, the executive […]
ProbeTheProto framework developed by computer scientist Yinzhi Cao helps identify and alert websites vulnerable to a flaw that allows malicious actors to ‘pollute’ important web code Millions of developers use JavaScript to build websites and mobile apps, making it one of the most popular programming languages in the world. But according to Johns Hopkins researchers, […]
Experts say Russia could launch a cyberattack against the U.S. and now is the time to protect yourself by taking specific steps. VIDEO COURTESY: WMAR2 BALTIMORE WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Russia wages war on the ground in Ukraine, there’s another war taking shape in cyberspace: one with the potential to cripple real-world systems […]
Anton Dahbura from the Information Security Institute suggests that individuals and enterprises should take steps now to secure cyber systems against attack from Russian agents Getty Images The invasion of Ukraine has put cybersecurity experts on alert for potential Russian cyberattacks against the United States and other countries. “Americans have particular reason to worry,” Anton […]
Experts say both the Kremlin and Russia-allied hackers may launch cyber attacks that cripple critical systems and business applications far beyond Ukraine. IMAGE: Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images By: Ben Brody, Senior Reporter for Protocol Cybersecurity experts have a warning for people in the U.S.: It’s time to install software patches, use multifactor authentication and strengthen […]
