Tag: Cybersecurity
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...
Is the new iPhone designed for cybersafety?
Arun Vishwanath, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
As eager customers meet the new iPhone, they’ll explore the latest installment in Apple’s...
The only safe email is text-only email
Sergey Bratus, Dartmouth College and Anna Shubina, Dartmouth College
It’s troubling to think that at any moment you might open an email that looks like...
EXPLORING NATURE
LA fires showed how much neighborliness matters for wildfire safety –...
Elizabeth A. Logan, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and William Deverell, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
