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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...
ISI Host Workshop on Encryption, Surveillance, and Transparency
On August 14, 2018, the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (ISI) held a workshop on encryption, surveillance, and transparency. More than 50 people from the systems security research community, civil society, industry, and the law enforcement and...
New podcast co-hosted by Hopkins expert explores cybersecurity, phishing, and ways people fall for online scams
Cybercriminals are continually thinking up new ways to manipulate online users into giving up their private information. Social engineering attacks, an increasingly common hacking technique, allows scammers to target vulnerable individuals through illicit and...
ISI Promotes Cybersecurity Education in Liberal Arts Colleges
In late spring, the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (ISI) and College of Charleston hosted a two-and-a half-day workshop on cybersecurity education materials for liberal arts colleges. Thirty professors, undergraduates, and high school students...
Apple to Close iPhone Security Hole That Law Enforcement Uses to Crack Devices, ISI’s Matthew Green, The New York Times
Apple is closing a technological loophole that let authorities hack into locked iPhones, infuriating law enforcement officials and reigniting a debate over security versus privacy. Matthew Green, assistant professor of computer science and member of the Johns Hopkins...
The Under Armour Hack Was Even Worse Than It Had To Be, ISI’s Matthew Green, WIRED
WIRED reports on flaws in Under Armour’s password hashing function on MyFitnessPal. CS/JHUISI’s Matthew Green is quoted.
Johns Hopkins grad students work to prevent hacking attacks on drones
Cybersecurity students partner with OnBoard Security to enhance UAV safety.
JHUISI Students Participate in 2018 Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge
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...
Hopkins Mechanical Engineering students Partner with the Information Security Institute to Assess Security of Authentication System
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...
How Secure Is Mobile Banking? ISI’s Joe Carrigan, The Wall Street Journal
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
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...
WSE celebrates 2018 National Engineers Week
Johns Hopkins University’s annual celebration of engineers’ contributions to society begins today and runs through Friday, Feb. 23 on the Homewood campus.
Huge security flaws revealed – and tech companies can barely keep up, ISI’ Avi Rubin, The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/huge-security-flaws-revealed--and-tech-companies-can-barely-keep-up/2018/01/05/82ccbe18-f24e-11e7-b3bf-ab90a706e175_story.html?utm_term=.10cb751dc1daJohns Hopkins computer scientist, cybersecurity expert Gerald Masson dies at 74
Gerald Masson was founder of JHU’s Information Security Institute and founding chair of the Department of Computer Science
KRACK in the code: Software flaw affects security of nearly every Wi-Fi enabled device
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.
JHUISI host members from the Beijing Universities Alliance of Excellent Engineer Education Program!
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...
Equifax breach brings renewed attention to information security vulnerabilities, The Hub
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...
The Future of Blockchain
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...
4th Annual Cyber Security Conference for Executives is approaching
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...
Centers for Academic Excellence Partners with JHUISI to Provide Educational Opportunities for Local Community College Students
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...