Novel transmitter protects wireless data from hackers | MIT News

Device uses ultrafast “frequency hopping” and data encryption to protect signals from being intercepted and jammed.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
June 11, 2018 ~9 min

Vinod Vaikuntanathan wins Edgerton Faculty Award | MIT News

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty member is honored for his innovative work in cybersecurity and his engaging teaching style.

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science • mit
April 23, 2018 ~5 min


Private browsing gets more private | MIT News

New system patches security holes left open by web browsers’ private-browsing functions.

Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 22, 2018 ~7 min

Energy-efficient encryption for the internet of things | MIT News

Special-purpose chip reduces power consumption of public-key encryption by 99.75 percent, increases speed 500-fold.

Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 12, 2018 ~6 min

Gregory Falco: Protecting urban infrastructure against cyberterrorism | MIT News

PhD student works at the intersection of urban planning and computer science.

Dara Farhadi | MIT News correspondent • mit
Sept. 5, 2017 ~8 min

Internet of things: Let the avatars talk to each other | MIT News

Sanjay Sarma has focused his research on new uses for RFID and security for the internet of things.

Bernadette Esposito | MIT Industrial Liaison Program • mit
May 30, 2017 ~7 min

Using Bitcoin to prevent identity theft | MIT News

System piggybacks on the digital currency’s security protocols to thwart hijacked servers.

Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office • mit
May 23, 2017 ~7 min

New funding enables work on Internet policy and cybersecurity for key infrastructure | MIT News

Work made possible by grants from the Internet Policy Research Initiative.

Rachel Gordon | CSAIL • mit
May 19, 2017 ~4 min


MIT experts urge Trump administration to take immediate action on cybersecurity | MIT News

Report warns of hacking risk to electric grid, oil pipelines, and other critical infrastructure.

Adam Conner-Simons | CSAIL • mit
March 28, 2017 ~5 min

Ernest Moniz named co-chair and CEO of Nuclear Threat Initiative | MIT News

Physics professor and former U.S. Energy Secretary will lead nuclear security nonprofit while continuing his work at MIT.

MIT News Office • mit
March 23, 2017 ~2 min

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