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Summer Research, Conference, Internship, and Beyond
Last summer in 2016, after just completing her freshman year, Josephine Chow worked at Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHUISI) as a research assistant with Dr. Xiangyang Li. She analyzed the randomness in different network data sets in order...
JHUISI Capstones at a Glance
Conducting research is the signature of the Master of Science in Security Informatics (MSSI) program experience at Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHUISI). Students present their research as capstone projects. Students pursue independent...
JHUISI Offers Cybersecurity Courses at Local Community College
In August 2015, Johns Hopkins University (JHUISI) launched its academic program partnership with Hagerstown Community College (HCC) in Hagerstown, Maryland. During the fall semester, JHUISI delivered a series of seminar lectures on selected topics in cybersecurity. ...
ZeroCash System Solves Bitcoin Privacy Issue
In 2009, an anonymous software developer named Satoshi Nakamoto developed Bitcoin. Run by a network of volunteer computers, Bitcoin has seen explosive growth over the past seven years: going from pennies to nearly $1,000 per coin in the fall of 2016. Yet for all its...
Statisticians look at which baseball players come through when there’s little on the line
The spotlight in baseball tends to fall on the clutch moment, the final inning, the key at-bat with the game on the line. But players also reveal themselves when the team's got little to gain or lose. In time for Major League Baseball's winter meetings this week, a...
Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute Appoints Director of Advanced Research Projects
This fall, Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute (JHUISI) appointed Adjunct Associate Research Scientist Seth Nielson as Director of Advanced Research Projects. “Seth brings to JHUISI the ideal combination of talents and experience to be able to focus on new...
Recent hacks raise questions about security of U.S. voting results
Avi Rubin, a computer security expert at Johns Hopkins University, joined Public Radio International’s ‘Science Friday’ program last week for a discussion about the security of U.S. voting systems. The segment comes on the heels of a massive and well-publicized breach...
JHUISI’s Matt Green among EFF 2016 Pioneer Award recipients
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has awarded a 2016 Pioneer Award to the group behind the “Keys Under Doormats” report on data security and backdoors for law enforcement access to digital information and communications. Matt Green, assistant professor of computer...
Johns Hopkins scientists brings down hobby drones to expose security flaws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ihin_9wVuA Sales of drones—small flying machines equipped with cameras—are soaring, but new research by a Johns Hopkins computer security team has raised concerns about how easily hackers could cause these robotic devices to ignore...