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Johns Hopkins Aids Effort To Build A Secure Smart Home, ISI’s Avi Rubin, The Hub
Smart homes of today—with lights, refrigerators, and Alexa all talking to each other—aren't nearly as smart as they need to be to thwart virtual burglars from breaking in. To address the massive security threat to interconnected devices known as the Internet of...
Ashutosh Dutta appointed chair of Engineering for Professionals’ Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ashutosh Dutta, a senior scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, on his appointment as chair of Engineering for Professionals’ Electrical and Computer Engineering program, effective July 1. This program prepares students to develop...
New ISI course uncovers online scams used by cyber criminals
Phishing scammers, beware! Information Security Institute’s graduate student fall course, Cybersecurity Hygiene & Literacy in a Digital Age, will expose all your online conning tactics. For Karol Pierre, the course instructor, it’s personal. While finishing up her...
New outbreak model better predicts COVID-19 hotspots, ISI’s Tony Dahbura, The Hub
Viruses, such as the one that causes COVID-19, spread quickly through large cities because of a complex web of interactions between people taking place in a densely populated area. But how viruses move from person to person in smaller, rural communities is less...
ISI’s Yaamini Barathi Mohan and Hyoeun Choi attend 2020 RSA Conference
“The RSA conference was an exhilarating experience for a student who is starting out in the cyber security field,” said Master of Science in Security Informatics program student Yaamini Barathi Mohan. Mohan and fellow Master of Science in Security Informatics program...
Voting by mail might be safer, but is it secure?
Avi Rubin, Information Security Institute’s Technical Director, gives opinion on the security threats of voting by posting mail in the upcoming elections. Voting by postal mail is an increasingly attractive option for the upcoming November election. While “vote by...
It’s a double whammy for minor league baseball schedule makers, ISI’s Anton Dahbura, Boston Globe
The work output, and lack of it, from a squad of applied mathematics undergraduates in Baltimore are all the proof you need of the heightened state of uncertainty that swirls around baseball’s minor leagues. Members of the Johns Hopkins Minor League Scheduling...
Abhishek Jain receives NSF CAREER Award
Abhishek Jain, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Early CAREER Award, which recognizes early stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence. Jain’s research concerns with all...
Hopkins professor wins big on poker class bet
Nearly 250 students registered for the class, which had lectures focused on strategy, calculating odds, and Machiavellian maneuvers and ended with a home tournament.
Three Johns Hopkins engineers named as fellows of IEEE
Ashutosh Dutta, Michael Miller, and Tza-Huei (Jeff) Wang were recognized for outstanding contributions to IEEE fields of interest.
New ISI curriculum will soon be available online for community colleges and more
The Information Security Institute (ISI) has developed a series of online video presentations that will introduce students to a broad range of topics in cybersecurity. The course is targeted toward students enrolled in community colleges and will be made available at...
Baltimore ransom: what’s next?
Avi Rubin, Information Security Institute’s Technical Director, gives opinion on Baltimore ransomware’s latest developments. This year, Baltimore was hit with a sophisticated, nasty ransomware attack. The incident crippled much of the city’s IT infrastructure and...
New ISI course provides safeguards for smart technologies
It’s hard to imagine a world without smartphones, cellular, Wifi, Bluetooth, or GPS. These are just a few examples of wireless networks that have forever changed society. A 2018 study from ABI Research predicted there will be over 35 billion connected Internet of...
Welcome to ISI!
Since its founding 19 years ago, ISI has been a vibrant focal point for information security research and education. Our research scope has grown with the recent addition of Assistant Professor Yinzhi Cao, with varied interests in areas such as web security and...
How One Texas County Stopped a Ransomware Attack, ISI’s Avi Rubin, WSJ
“Ransomware has been around for quite some time,” said Avi Rubin, professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University and technical director of the Information Security Institute. “But recently, the big targets have been municipalities and local...
New Software Improves Speed and Accuracy of Cryptography
Cryptographers often spend time on tasks that are both very complex and very tedious. Precision is key: a single error can compromise an entire system. Associate Research Professor Susan Hohenberger Waters at JHU’s Information Security Institute leads a research team...
New Fall 2019 Course: Cybersecurity Innovation and Entrepreneurship
This fall, the Whiting School of Engineering is offering a new course for graduate students interested in cybersecurity and entrepreneurship. The course “Cybersecurity Innovation and Entrepreneurship,” designed for students in the 3-semester Master of Science in...
5th Annual Cybersecurity Conference for Executives: The regulatory playing field
So does regulation have a downside? Its promised upside is clear enough: an analogue of public health and public safety measures, transposed to cyberspace. The conference held on March 13, 2019, on the Homewood Campus of JHU, was organized by the Johns Hopkins Whiting...
Online to On Campus: Customize Your Class Schedule
Graduate students in several master’s degree programs at the Whiting School of Engineering can now jumpstart their coursework months before they step foot on the Homewood campus, thanks to “Home2Homewood” (H2H). The new program allows new students enrolling in select...
ISI’s Jennifer Li and Kalyani Pawar attended the 2019 RSA Conference
Master of Science in Security Informatics program students Jennifer Li and Kalyani Pawar joined over 45,000 attendees at the RSA conference held in San Francisco, CA from March 4-8, 2019. The IT security conference gathers cybersecurity industry experts from around...
ISI’s Matt Green Receives $100,000 Google Security and Privacy Research Award
Cutting-edge research plays a key role in advancing the security and privacy of users across the Internet. To accelerate the next generation of security and privacy breakthroughs, Google has created the Security and Privacy Research Awards. In February 2019, Google...
ISI Student Awarded Ankura-Information Security Institute Scholarship
Congratulations to Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute’s graduate student Yu-Tsern Jou who was recently awarded a $3,000 Ankura-Information Security Institute Scholarship. Jou is expected to graduate in December 2018 with a MS in Security Informatics. His...
ISI Students Win Third Place and Cash Prize in Cybersecurity Competition
The Information Security Institute’s graduate students won third prize and $2,500 at Raymond James’ annual Capture the Flag cybersecurity competition. On Saturday, October 27, 2018, the financial organization hosted the event at its headquarters in St. Petersburg,...
Yinzhi Cao Joins ISI Faculty
How can a self-driving car learn to avoid mistakes? How can researchers spot errors in a malware detection system before they cause problems? These are some of the questions new assistant professor Yinzhi Cao explores in his research. Cao comes to Johns Hopkins from...