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.
Protecting web users’ privacy
System for disguising database queries could prevent customer profiling and price gouging.
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.
Protecting privacy in genomic databases
System helps ensure databases used in medical research will not leak patients’ personal information.
How to stay anonymous online
Network can protect users’ anonymity if all but one of its servers are compromised.
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We know where you live
From location data alone, even low-tech snoopers can identify Twitter users’ homes, workplaces.
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.
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.
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.
CSAIL report: Giving government special access to data poses major security risks
Whether “backdoor” or “front-door,” government access imperils your data, report authors say.
Privacy challenges
Analysis: It’s surprisingly easy to identify individuals from credit-card metadata.
Drones, Bitcoin, and robotic fish
Here are eight of the coolest things that happened at CSAIL in 2014.
Raising cryptography’s standards
Calculating encryption schemes’ theoretical security guarantees eases comparison, improvement.
Own your own data
A new system would allow individuals to pick and choose what data to share with websites and mobile apps.
