Tag: Cybersecurity
30 years ago, the world’s first cyberattack set the stage for...
Scott Shackelford, Indiana University
Back in November 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, son of the famous cryptographer Robert Morris Sr., was a 20-something graduate student at...
Russians hack home internet connections – here’s how to protect yourself
Sandeep Nair Narayanan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Sudip Mittal, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
In late...
Defending hospitals against life-threatening cyberattacks
Mohammad S. Jalali, MIT Sloan School of Management
Like any large company, a modern hospital has hundreds – even thousands – of workers using countless...
Encrypted smartphones secure your identity, not just your data
Susan Landau, Tufts University
Smartphones store your email, your photos and your calendar. They provide access to online social media sites like Facebook and Twitter,...
How secure is your data when it’s stored in the cloud?
Haibin Zhang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
As cloud storage becomes more common, data security is an increasing concern. Companies and schools have been increasing...
Real security requires strong encryption – even if investigators get blocked
Susan Landau, Tufts University
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice have been fighting against easy, widespread public access to encryption technologies for 25...
Is it time for a Cyber Peace Corps?
Scott Shackelford, Indiana University
Hackers around the world are attacking targets as diverse as North Dakota’s state government, the Ukrainian postal service and a hospital...
Equifax breach is a reminder of society’s larger cybersecurity problems
Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Equifax data breach was yet another cybersecurity incident involving the theft of significant personal data from a...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
