Vitaly Shmatikov thinks computer security experts and pranksters have a lot in common. “The nice thing about being a security researcher,” he says, “is that you’re sort of paid to be a troublemaker. You are kind of paid to do things that other people don’t want to do and don’t want to think about. For a certain type of personality, this is a very good match.”
Can unpredictability protect computers against malware? We want our computers to perform the way we expect. But what if the key to defeating malware is introducing a bit of chaos? We want our computers to perform the way we expect. But what if the key to defeating malware is introducing a bit of chaos?
University of Florida | Protecting Individual Data | Protecting Systems | Safeguarding the Connected World
Researchers in UF’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering such as Domenic Forte are developing new ways to keep us safe and secure in our increasingly digital lives.
The rise of digital devices and technologies has dramatically increased online activities for individuals, businesses, and governments. And though this accelerated connectivity brings many benefits, it also creates a treasure-trove of data to plunder — along with new forms of foul play.
The results of an American presidential election—from a population of 220 million eligible voters with no federal ID cards—has unparalleled implications for global politics.
The Johns Hopkins University | Protecting Individual Data | Protecting Systems | Safeguarding the Connected World | University Research
The Berklett Cybersecurity Project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to announce the publication of a new report entitled “Don’t Panic: Making Progress on the ‘Going Dark’ Debate.”
Website traffic security, one of the biggest concerns for a free and open Internet, has needed fixing for some time. The aging HTTP protocol, which is the default protocol in use by the majority of sites worldwide, is inherently insecure and provides no protection to sites or visitors from threats that range from surveillance through phishing and identity theft.
At the Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on Operating Systems Principles in October, a team of MIT researchers presented a new, untraceable text-messaging system designed to thwart even the most powerful of adversaries.
By using photons to communicate between two electrons through more than a mile of fiber optic cable, physicists have taken an important step toward proving the practicality of quantum networks.
Amit Sahai, UCLA professor of computer science at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been awarded a $2.8 million grant over four years from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Department of Defense’s research arm. The grant will support Sahai's work to develop the foundations for encrypted software that is capable of keeping its source code a secret from users behind a tangled barrier of ultra-hard mathematics. The technique is known as "program obfuscation" or "software obfuscation."