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Northeastern designated by the NSA as a National Center of Academic...
Northeastern University has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations by the National Security Agency. The program, in which students can pursue a new specialty in...
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3Qs: Analyzing the cybersecurity threat posed by hackers
Last week, Anonymous, a global group of hackers, successfully infiltrated the Department of Justice’s system and released stolen data. At the same time, al-Qaida, the international terrorist...
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3Qs: Fortifying the country’s mainframe
[media-credit name=“Photo by Christopher Huang” align=“alignleft” width=“150”][/media-credit]Last week, The Washington Post reported the Pentagon has proposed that military cyberspecialists be...
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3Qs: Controlling a robot from another planet
Prior to joining the Northeastern faculty as an assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Science, Marsette Vona worked for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part of the teams...
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Sinister code-breakers, beware
In the early– to mid-20th century, governments commonly used cryptography to encrypt top-secret messages or military communications. But now that the computer and Internet age has evolved to a point...
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Data mining in a complex world
Gold mining requires a certain amount of patience: For example, you would have to sift through about 300 tons of earth and rock to come up with enough of the precious metal to make a single wedding...
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The evolution of language, from Shakespeare to present day
A generation ago, students would say they “graduated from college,” but now they “graduate college.” These tiny fluctuations in the way we use language are ubiquitous because “children don’t learn the...
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Take 5: How to protect your passwords
Northeastern University cybersecurity expert Wil Robertson, an associate professor with joint appointments in the College of Computer and Information Science and the College of Engineering, offers some...
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Game on
If Northeastern’s Game Demo Day wanted to adopt an official slogan, “Do you want to play?” should be considered the heavy favorite. That phrase could be heard throughout Thursday evening’s event at the...
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3Qs: Big Data project reaches for the ‘cloud’
Northeastern University is a key partner in the Massachusetts Open Cloud Project, a university-industry collaboration designed to create a new public cloud computing infrastructure to spur Big Data...
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New master’s program to prepare future security professionals
Northeastern will launch a first-of-its-kind, interdisciplinary graduate program this fall to train the next generation of security professionals to face the new and evolving challenges of the 21st...
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Researchers aim to thwart targeted cyberattacks
When it comes to Internet attacks, hackers have traditionally taken a blanket approach, sending out malware to large, random groups of people and hoping that something would stick. But in recent years,...
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Looking ahead: Cybersecurity in 2015
A score of highly publicized data breaches in 2014 has motivated President Barack Obama to announce that strengthening cybersecurity will be one of his administration’s top priorities in 2015, with a...
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Northeastern researchers connect diseases based on their molecular similarities
Northeastern University network scientists have found a way to connect diseases based on their shared molecular interactions. Published in the journal Science, the Northeastern team created a...
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NASA selects Northeastern for humanoid robot research
NASA has its sights set on sending astronauts to Mars, a space mission for which Northeastern University will now play a key role. On Tuesday, NASA announced that Northeastern and the Massachusetts...
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Why ransomware is on the rise
A California hospital recently had its patients’ records held hostage. But the perpetrators did not commandeer a room full of paper files. They were in fact hackers who restricted access to the...
View ArticleNurturing a seed of discovery
Network scientists at Northeastern University have collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of colleagues in cell biology and interactive data acquisition to create the first large-scale map of a...
View Article3Qs: Is a potential Facebook hack on the horizon?
The hacker group Anonymous recently announced through a YouTube video that it plans to “kill” Facebook on Nov. 5 for supposedly abusing the privacy of its users. We asked Engin Kirda, the Sy and...
View ArticleWhy one researcher is putting science and innovation under the microscope
If you leave a plant in a dark closet and it dies, you can probably guess what happened. But to investigate it scientifically, you would need an identical plant, with the same soil and water, placed...
View ArticleThe new iPhone comes out today. Is Apple slowing down your old device to make...
The new iPhone XR comes out Friday, and while some people might be lining up outside Apple stores to buy the latest device from the tech giant, conspiracy theorists have a different plan—wait until...
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