Argyro Karanasiou to Give 11/30 Wed@Hariri/RISCS Seminar
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM, networking and refreshments at 2:45 PM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 In collaboration with Boston University's Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security Group (RISCS), the Hariri Institute for Computing will be hosting Argyro Karanasiou (Senior Lecturer of Law, Bournemouth University) for a Wednesday@Hariri seminar. Emergent Normative and... More
BUSec Seminar – Prof. Tai Moreshet & Aanchal Malhotra
Friday, June 10, 2016 12pm -1 pm Location: PHO 339, 8 St Marys St Prof. Tai Moreshet - Spider Goat: Transactional Memory for Security Abstract: Modern Intel CPUs support the detection and resolution of memory conflicts between multiple threads that access the same data: This is called Transactional Synchronisation Extension (TSX). Hardware-supported TSX technology... More
BUSec Seminar – Bryan Ford, EPFL
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 9:45am–10:45am Location: MCS-180 (Hariri Seminar Room), 111 Cummington Mall Collective Authorities: Securely Decentralizing Trust at Scale Online infrastructure depends on many security-critical authorities such as logging, time, directory, and software update services. These authorities represent high-value attack targets to hackers, criminals, and spy agencies, who can secretly compromise many hosts by... More
Sharon Goldberg, Institute Fellow, Discovers Flaw in Computers’ Timekeeping
As featured in recent worldwide news, Sharon Goldberg, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Hariri Institute Fellow, discovered a potential vulnerability in the Network Time Protocol (NTP), the software that synchronizes clocks on computers. In a paper released on October 21st, Goldberg and her team reported a security problem that affects... More
Teaching the Next Generation – Hacking with Holyoke Codes
Boston University researchers, including Hariri Institute Founding Director, Azer Bestavros, hosted a free, hands-on cybersecurity workshop at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) in Holyoke, MA on December 12, 2015. The Hacking with Holyoke Codes workshop was attended by over 20 young people who learned about secret codes and cryptography. Both... More