Cybersecurity

Thirty-eight Lab RATs, weary after 52 hours of hacking their competitors' computer networks, posed for a team photograph at the DEF CON Capture the Flag competition held at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory team scores big at international hacking event

Lab RATs take 10th place at the annual DEF CON Capture the Flag competition in Las Vegas.

September 20, 2017

“The concept of my startup is, ‘Let’s use hacker tools to defeat hackers,’” PhD student Gregory Falco says. “If you don’t know how to break it, you don’t know how to fix it.”

Gregory Falco: Protecting urban infrastructure against cyberterrorism

PhD student works at the intersection of urban planning and computer science.

September 5, 2017

Internet of things: Let the avatars talk to each other

Sanjay Sarma has focused his research on new uses for RFID and security for the internet of things.

May 30, 2017

"Our paper is about using Bitcoin to prevent online services from getting away with lying," says MIT graduate student Alin Tomescu.

Using Bitcoin to prevent identity theft

System piggybacks on the digital currency’s security protocols to thwart hijacked servers.

May 23, 2017

New funding enables work on Internet policy and cybersecurity for key infrastructure

Work made possible by grants from the Internet Policy Research Initiative.

May 19, 2017

WannaCry ransomware has limited impact at MIT

Information Systems and Technology staff is working with community members to secure devices against the Microsoft Windows-targeting system.

May 16, 2017

An MIT report urges the Trump administration to develop a coherent cybersecurity plan that coordinates efforts across departments, encourages investment, and removes parts of key infrastructure, like the electric grid, from the internet.

MIT experts urge Trump administration to take immediate action on cybersecurity

Report warns of hacking risk to electric grid, oil pipelines, and other critical infrastructure.

March 28, 2017

Nuclear physicist Ernest J. Moniz has been named chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative. He will continue to work at MIT as a part-time professor of physics post-tenure and special advisor to the president.

Ernest Moniz named co-chair and CEO of Nuclear Threat Initiative

Physics professor and former U.S. Energy Secretary will lead nuclear security nonprofit while continuing his work at MIT.

March 23, 2017

Researchers including MIT professor Daniela Rus (left) and research scientist Stephanie Gil (right) have developed a technique for preventing malicious hackers from commandeering robot teams’ communication networks. To verify the theoretical predictions, the researchers implemented their system using a battery of distributed Wi-Fi transmitters and an autonomous helicopter.

Security for multirobot systems

New technique could protect robot teams’ communication networks from malicious hackers.

March 16, 2017

In an effort to get ahead of the problem of counterfeit wireless chargers, MIT researchers have built a chip that blocks attempts to wirelessly charge a device’s battery unless the charger first provides cryptographic authentication.

Secure wireless chargers

New chip would thwart the counterfeiting that plagues the market for wired device chargers.

February 9, 2017

Fadel Adib has joined the Media Lab faculty to head the new research group Signal Kinetics.

Fadel Adib joins Media Lab faculty

Adib is directing a new research group at the Media Lab, aiming to uncover, analyze, and engineer natural and human-made networks.

January 27, 2017

The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund will support work around the world that advances the development of artificial intelligence in the public interest.

MIT Media Lab to participate in $27 million initiative on AI ethics and governance

Fund establishes a global initiative to advance artificial intelligence research for the public good.

January 10, 2017

In 2016, MIT CSAIL researchers worked on a range of projects in robotics, theory, wireless technology, software systems, and other disciplines.

Ingestible robots, glasses-free 3-D, and computers that explain themselves

A look at 16 of the coolest things that happened at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 2016.

December 16, 2016

“I see starting a company not only as an option, but the option,” says graduate student Keertan Kini. “It’s a way to make sustainable change in the world.”

Helping policy and technology work together

Engineering grad student Keertan Kini is working to strengthen the intersection of policy and technology.

December 12, 2016

The Lincoln Laboratory team working on a robust rerandomization technique for protecting networks from cyberattacks includes: (left to right) James Landry, David Bigelow, Hamed Okhravi, William Streilein, and Robert Rudd.

Foiling cyberattackers with rerandomization

A unique moving target technique combats information leakage attacks.

December 9, 2016

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