RISCS Seminar on Practical Security: Zach Lister and Brian Bowlby

July 7th, 2014

Monday, July 28, 2014 12–1pm Location: PHO 339 The intent of the seminar is to focus on practical elements of security, including implementation, offensive and defensive approaches, and even physical security: the type of security that is typically represented in non-academic hacker conferences such as BLACKHAT and DEFCON. Such practical areas of security are... More

RISCS Seminar on Practical Security: Carrie Cramer and Amit Sinha

July 7th, 2014

Monday, July 21, 2014 12–1pm Location: PHO 339 Talk 1 Title: Cybersecurity Threats in Autonomous Cars Speaker/Bio: Carrie Cramer is an undergraduate student of Computer Engineering at BU. Abstract: Autonomous (driverless) vehicle technology has the potential to provide many benefits to the public, such as reducing accidents caused by human error, improving traffic efficiency, and giving more... More

RISCS Seminar on Practical Security: Max Timchenko and Eran Simhon

July 7th, 2014

Monday, July 14, 2014 12–1pm Location: PHO 339 The intent of the seminar is to focus on practical elements of security, including implementation, offensive and defensive approaches, and even physical security: the type of security that is typically represented in non-academic hacker conferences such as BLACKHAT and DEFCON. Such practical areas of security are... More

Charles River Privacy Day

November 12th, 2013

Friday, November 15, 2013 9am Location: Hariri Institute The Charles River Privacy Day will take place on Friday November 15, in the Hariri Institute at Boston University (111 Cummington Mall, MCS 180). There will be four talks covering different aspects of the challenge of protecting privacy of personal information in public databases. The Charles... More

Pinning Down “Privacy” in Statistical Databases: Adam Smith, Penn State

November 12th, 2013

Wednesday, November 13, 2013 3–4:30pm Location: Hariri Institute Abstract: Consider an agency holding a large database of sensitive personal information—medical records, census survey answers, web search records, or genetic data, for example. The agency would like to discover and publicly release global characteristics of the data (say, to inform policy and business decisions)... More