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  • It’s easier to defend against ransomware than you might think

    • May 24, 2016

    Ransomware – malicious software that sneaks onto your computer, encrypts your data so you can’t access it and demands payment for unlocking the information – has become an emerging cyberthreat. Several reports in the past few years document the diversity of ransomware attacks and their increasingly sophisticated methods. Recently, high-profile ransomware attacks on large enterprises such as hospitals and police departments have demonstrated that large organizations of all types are at risk of significant real-world consequences if they don’t protect themselves properly against this type of cyberthreat.

    Ransomware

  • 3Qs: Can ‘scrubbing’ your online identity save your reputation?

    • May 23, 2016

    What hap­pens when you Google your­self? For those wor­ried about less than favor­able search results or news sto­ries, “scrub­bing” has emerged as a pop­ular approach to improving a poor online rep­u­ta­tion. From celebri­ties and large cor­po­ra­tions to uni­ver­si­ties and orga­ni­za­tions, there is a growing appetite to boost the online image of their brand. One way to do that is to hire experts to clean up and lit­er­ally wipe neg­a­tive men­tions of them from the Internet. Here, David Choffnes, pro­fessor in the Col­lege of Com­puter and Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence, weighs in on whether scrub­bing is an effec­tive and real­istic way to manage and improve an online reputation.

  • Is that a turnip or a bomb?

    • May 4, 2016

    Com­puter sci­ence pro­fessor Mitchell Wand has a sure­fire way of intro­ducing his research in social settings. "When people come up to me at a cock­tail party and ask about my research, I tell them this: Some­where down in the bowels of the Pen­tagon is this guy whose job is to write a com­puter pro­gram. The pro­gram will take the video feed from a drone over in Afghanistan or Iraq, or wher­ever drones fly these days, and figure out if that guy kneeling on the side of the road is planting turnips or planting a bomb."

    Mitchell Wand

  • CCIS Alum Chris Lambert Leads Lyft’s Tech Teams

    • April 21, 2016

    CCIS graduates are taking on leadership roles throughout the computer science and tech fields, whether as professors, startup founders or company heads. Take for example Chris Lambert (BSCS ’07) who […]

    Chris Lambert

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