Cybersecurity

Information Protection @ MIT: Your source for securing data

Website provides access to policies, resources, and guides for safeguarding sensitive data at the Institute.

November 7, 2016

CNBC's Eamon Javers (left) with Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan (center) and former NSA counsel Rajesh De.

Cambridge Cyber Summit convenes industry, academia, and government

Hosted by CSAIL, event featured discussions on cybersecurity with tech leaders and officials from the NSA and FBI.

October 12, 2016

Sophia Yakoubov lectures the 2016 LLCipher class on public key encryption.

Students unlock the secrets of cryptography

LLCipher workshop hosted by the Lincoln Laboratory teaches the mathematics behind cryptography.

September 14, 2016

A new imaging system can read closed books. “The Metropolitan Museum in New York showed a lot of interest in this, because they want to, for example, look into some antique books that they don’t even want to touch,” says Barmak Heshmat, a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab.

Judging a book through its cover

New computational imaging method identifies letters printed on first nine pages of a stack of paper.

September 9, 2016

Researchers at MIT and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have developed a new anonymity scheme that provides strong security guarantees but uses bandwidth much more efficiently than its predecessors.

How to stay anonymous online

Network can protect users’ anonymity if all but one of its servers are compromised.

July 11, 2016

A new risk survey conducted by the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation and Infosys Global Risk Advisory Group highlights top risk concerns from 70 companies worldwide.

MIT Forum and Infosys Risk Group release preliminary global risk survey findings

Survey indicates 92.54 percent of companies think the nature of risk is changing due to complexity in the digital economy.

June 6, 2016

“[T]oday, if you want to write a program, you go and bring in these huge frameworks and these huge pieces of functionality that you then glue together, and you write a little code to get them to interact with each other. If you don’t understand what that big framework is doing, you’re not even going to know where your program is going to start executing,” says Armando Solar-Lezama.

Automatic bug finder

System could make complex analysis practical for programs that import huge swaths of code.

May 25, 2016

“[W]hen you send location data as a secondary piece of information, it is extremely simple for people with very little technical knowledge to find out where you work or live,” Ilaria Liccardi says.

We know where you live

From location data alone, even low-tech snoopers can identify Twitter users’ homes, workplaces.

May 17, 2016

MIT political scientist Kenneth Oye has discovered that collaborating with technologists is a very effective way to inform good policy on the issues he cares about most — from climate change to synthetic biology.

Ken Oye and the art of sociotechnical problem-solving

May 13, 2016

MIT Energy Initiative awards nine seed fund grants for early-stage energy research

Winning teams will use grants to advance research in areas including fuel cells, solar-powered desalination, and impacts of electric vehicle charging on the power grid.

April 25, 2016

AI<sup>2</sup> combs through data and detects suspicious activity using unsupervised machine-learning. It then presents this activity to human analysts, who confirm which events are actual attacks, and incorporate that feedback into its models for the next set of data.

System predicts 85 percent of cyber-attacks using input from human experts

Virtual artificial intelligence analyst developed by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and PatternEx reduces false positives by factor of 5.

April 18, 2016

Two MIT faculty win 2016 NSF CAREER Awards

James Swan and Konstantin Turitsyn are among 160 young scientists and engineers poised to explore new frontiers and inspire a future generation of scholars.

April 8, 2016

Andrus Ansip, vice president of the Digital Single Market in the European Commission, chats with Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker.

U.S., EU leaders talk Web policy and world economy at MIT

With EU vice president, U.S. secretary of commerce discusses EU-U.S. “Privacy Shield” and launches new policy program.

March 11, 2016

Students from MIT and Cambridge University completed various cybersecurity challenges as part of a 24-hour Cambridge 2 Cambridge hackathon.

MIT, Cambridge University team up for “Cambridge 2 Cambridge” hackathon

Hosted by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, event featured mixed student teams tackling cybersecurity challenges.

March 7, 2016

Researchers have designed an RFID chip that prevents so-called side-channel attacks, which analyze patterns of memory access or fluctuations in power usage when a device is performing a cryptographic operation, in order to extract its cryptographic key. Pictured here is a standard RFID chip.

Toward hack-proof RFID chips

New technology could secure credit cards, key cards, and pallets of goods in warehouses.

February 3, 2016

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