June 23, 2022
Susan Landau argues that The EU’s Proposal on CSAM is a Dangerous Misfire.
May 23, 2022
Susan Landau spotlights the Privacy Risk to Result from the Demise of Roe v. Wade.
May 5, 2022
Josephine Wolff discussed whether NATO expansion might prompt a Russian cyberattack.
April 19 & 27, 2022
Josephine Wolff appeared on the April 19 and April 27 episodes of the Planet Money podcast.
April 5, 2022
Josephine Wolff discusses the implications of big tech handing over user data to hackers.
March 30, 2022
Josephine Wolff Examines Nvidia’s Response to their Ransomeware Attack.
March 2, 2022
Josephine Wolff explains why Russia Hasn’t Launched a Cyberattack since Invading Ukraine.
March 1, 2022
Susan Landau warns against Being Dangerously Foolish About Cryptography.
February 22, 2022
Josephine Wolff asks, “Is Multifactor Authentication Less Effective than it used to be”
February 10, 2022
Josephine Wolff explains how “the crypto couple” got caught laundering billions.
January 19, 2022
Josephine Wolff asks, Should Insurance Companies Pay for Cyberattack Damage?
January 5, 2022
Josephine Wolff explores if Cyber Incident Response Confidentiality Laws Undermine Security.
November 10, 2021
Susan Landau and Ross Anderson: The Going Dark Debate & Risks of Client-Side Scanning.
November 4, 2021
Joe Biden Can’t Stop the Most Notorious Spyware Company in the World, writes Josephine Wolff.
October 10, 2021
Susan Landau writes about Bugs in Our Pockets: The Risks of Client-Side Scanning.
November 4, 2021
Is a hospital to blame is a patient dies during a ransomware attack? asks Josephine Wolff.
September 15, 2021
Susan Landau discusses the privacy concerns of Facebook’s camera-in-glasses on Marketplace.
November 4, 2021
You Really, Really Need to Update Your iPhone and Other Apple Devices,urges Josephine Wolff.
September 14, 2021
Laurin Weissinger asks Can You Trust Big Tech? in light of Apple’s phone-scanning plans.
September 13, 2021
Susan Landau discusses how pandemic tech has left public health experts out of the conversation.
September 10, 2021
Susan Landau offers how to design digital exposure tools.
September 9, 2021
Howard University’s Devastating Ransomware Attack Can Teach Other Colleges a Valuable Lesson, writes Josephine Wolff.
August 30, 2021
Susan Landau discusses the implications of Normalizing Surveillance.
August 1, 2021
Susan Landau discusses why we need to resist the normalization of health surveillance technologies.
July 27, 2021
Josephine Wolff writes about Russia’s Nonsensical, Impossible Quest to Create Its Own Domestic Internet.
July 9, 2021
Susan Landau appeared on the inaugural episode of Over The Rainbow: 21st Century Security and Privacy
July 9, 2021
Susan Landau discusses whether apps have helped tackle the pandemic.
June 24, 2021
Josephine Wolff asks, How Quickly Should Companies Have to Disclose Data Breaches?
June 23, 2021
Susan Landau writes about the Dangers Posed by Evidentiary Software—and What to Do About It.
June 10, 2021
Josephine Wolff writes As Ransomware Demands Boom, Insurance Companies Keep Paying Out.
June 10, 2021
Josephine Wolff shares Five Myths About Ransomware.
June 7, 2021
Susan Landau appeared on a podcast about A Digital Contact Tracing Retrospective.
June 3, 2021
Josephine Wolff writes that Amazon Wants to Connect Your Smart Speaker and Doorbell With Your Neighbor’s. It’s Actually Pretty Cool!
June 3, 2021
Susan Landau discussed A Digital Contact Tracing Retrospective.
May 27, 2021
Susan Landau appeared on the BBC’s The Briefing Room.
May 26 2021
Susan Landau offers Lessons from Contact-Tracing and Exposure-Notification Apps.
May 24, 2021
Susan Landau writes that Contact-tracing apps have serious limitations.
May 18, 2021
Josephine Wolff writes about The Laughable Phenomenon of Ethical Ransomware Operators.
April 30, 2021
Josephine Wolff argues that The EU’s New Proposed Rules on A.I. Are Missing Something.
April 27, 2021
Susan Landau speaks about The US and Taiwan After COVID: Preparing for the Next Crisis.
March 23, 2021
Josephine Wolff asks, Why Are We Banning Petty Cybercriminals From the Internet?
March 4, 2021
Josephine Wolff writes how The Former SolarWinds CEO Is Blaming the Firm’s Poor Cybersecurity on an Intern.
February 19, 2021
Josephine Wolff writes that The U.S. Has Released the Most Comprehensive Catalog of North Korean Cybercrimes Ever Made Public.
February 9, 2021
Josephine Wolff shares The Bright Side of the Horrifying Story About a Hacked Water Treatment Plant.
January 21, 2021
Josephine Wolff argues that The Arrest of a Florida Data Scientist Demonstrates a Weird Hole in Cybercrime Law.
January 19, 2021
Susan Landau explores what Contact-Tracing Apps need to be an effective public health tool.
December 2020
Susan Landau appeared on the In Lieu of Fun podcast.
December 18, 2020
Josephine Wolff writes that The SolarWinds Hack Is Unlike Anything We Have Ever Seen Before.
December 16, 2020
Josephine Wolff explains What We Do and Don’t Know About the Massive Federal Hack.
December 7, 2020
Susan Landau writes that Law Enforcement is Accessing Locked Devices Quite Well, Thank You.
November 30, 2020
Josephine Wolff argues that Trump’s Firing of Christopher Krebs Threatens the Security of Future Elections.
November 18, 2020
Josephine Wolff argues that It’s Long Past Time for a Federal Data Protection Law.
November 2, 2020
Josephine Wolff writes about how Criminals Are Using Google Drive to Infect Hospitals With Ransomware.
November 2, 2020
Josephine Wolff explores The Most Surprising Thing About the New Indictment of Six Russian Intelligence Hackers.
September 24, 2020
Josephine Wolff asks, Do Fake Phishing Emails Really Teach People to Recognize Scam Messages?
September 24, 2020
Josephine Wolff asks, Why Are Private Companies Telling Us More About Election Interference Than the Government Is?
September 23, 2020
Dan Votipka was quoted about Best Application Security Practices.
August 26, 2020
Josephine Wolff writes how Uber’s Former Security Chief Was Charged With Covering Up a Data Breach.
August 26, 2020
Josephine Wolff writes that The First U.S. Contact-Tracing App to Use the Apple-Google System Is Finally Here.
August 7, 2020
Josephine Wolff asks, So What Does Trump Have Against TikTok?
August 26, 2020
Josephine Wolff writes that The Cyberattack on Garmin Poses a Complicated Question for the U.S. Government.
July 16, 2020
Josephine Wolff argues that The Big Twitter Hack Keeps Getting Stranger and Stranger.
June 26, 2020
Josephine Wolff highlights how Dubai Police Release Hilariously High-Octane Video of Cybercriminals’ Arrests.
June 24, 2020
Josephine Wolff writes that Apple Is Giving iPhone Users More Control Over Their Location Data.
June 22, 2020
Susan Landau writes that It’s Never Too Late to Think about NSA’s CDR Collection Program.
May 15, 2020
Josephine Wolff writes that Congress Doesn’t Need to Meet in Person.
May 12, 2020
Susan Landau appeared on Inventing Tomorrow: Does Contact Tracing for COVID19 even work?
May 1, 2020
Susan Landau, Christry Lopez, Laura Moy explore The Importance of Equity in Contact Tracing.
April 29, 2020
Josephine Wolff writes, Supreme Court Says State Laws Aren’t Copyrightable.
April 27, 2020
Susan Landau was quoted in Can We Track COVID-19 and Protect Privacy at the Same Time?
April 18, 2020
Susan Landau appeared on the Lawfare Podcast episode, Is Contact Tracing a Privacy Threat?
April 14, 2020
Ming Chow appeared on an Agent of Influence podcast episode.
April 10, 2020
Susan Landau writes about Looking Beyond Contact Tracing to Stop the Spread.
April 7, 2020
Josephine Wolff offers A Partial Defense of Zoom.
April 5, 2020
Josephine Wolff writes, With More WFH, Our Internet Undergoes a Stress Test.
April 7, 2020
Josephine Wolff writes that Ransomware Attacks Are the Last Things Hospitals Need Now.
March 25, 2020
Josephine Wolff explains How to (Carefully) Use Tech to Contain the Coronavirus.
March 25, 2020
Susan Landau writes about Location Surveillance to Counter COVID-19: Efficacy is What Matters.
March 18, 2020
Josephine Wolff writes that Ransomware Attacks Are the Last Things Hospitals Need Now.
March 17, 2020
Josephine Wolff shares The Paranoid Person’s Guide to Working From Home Securely.
March 4, 2020
Josephine Wolff explores How Russia & China Manipulate Coronavirus Conversations Online.
February 28, 2020
Susan Landau writes, If We Build It (They Will Break In).
February 11, 2020
Josephine Wolff argues That Enormous Equifax Hack Looks a Lot More Bizarre Now.
January 27, 2020
Josephine Wolff writes about The Shaky Future of .org Domains.
January 22, 2020
Josephine Wolff asks, What the Hell Is Going On With Jeff Bezos’ Phone and the Saudi Crown Prince?
January 16, 2020
Susan Landau and Denis McDonough write about Breaking the Encryption Impasse.
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Susan Landau appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition.
January 6, 2020
Josephine Wolff writes that The Military’s Ban of TikTok Is Just the Beginning.
December 20, 2019
Josephine Wolff asks, Exactly How Bad Is the Wawa Data Breach?
December 19, 2019
Josephine Wolff writes how Cybersecurity Experts Leaving the Federal Government is a problem.
November 22, 2019
Josephine Wolff explained How Iran Turned Off the Internet.
November 06, 2019
Josephine Wolff argues that Whatever you think of Facebook, the NSO Group is Worse.
November 5, 2019
Susan Landau provides A Thoughtful Response to Going Dark and the Child Pornography Issue.
November 1, 2019
Susan Landau writes about A Security Failure in the White House.
October 8, 2019
Susan Landau and Jim Baker appeared on the Lawfare about the Encryption Policy Conversation.
September 23, 2019
Susan Landau writes about The NSA General Counsel’s Proposal for a Moonshot.
August 14, 2019
Josephine Wolff writes, “They Stole Your Files, You Don’t Have to Pay the Ransom“
May 31, 2019
Susan Landau briefed the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on the US Privacy Act.
May 28, 2019
Susan Landau and Jim Baker write about New Perspectives on the Future of Encryption.
April 28, 2019
Josephine Wolff writes about Losing Our Fourth Amendment Data Protection.
March 11, 2019
Susan Landau asks, Is Section 215 No Longer Worth the Effort?
January 27, 2019
Josephine Wolff warns that Two-Factor Authenticatin Might Not Keep You Safe.
December 04, 2018
Susan Landau writes British intelligence officials propose way to access encrypted group chats.
December 26, 2018
Susan Landau writes about Exceptional Access: The Devil is in the Details.
November 14, 2019
Josephine Wolff asks, How Do You Get Students to Think Like Criminals?
October 26, 2018
Susan Landau and Steve Bellovin write that Encryption by Default Equals National Security.
October 16, 2018
Josephine Wolff explains Why It’s so Hard to Punish Companies for Data Breaches.
October 2, 2018
Josephine Wolff writes about Trump’s Reckless Cybersecurity Strategy.
September 26, 2018
Susan Landau explores The Five Eyes Statement on Encryption.
September 13, 2018
Susan Landau writes about Why the Russians Might Hack the Boy Scouts.
August 3, 2018
Susan Landau explores Brett Kavanaugh’s Failure to Acknowledge Comms Tech Changes.
Summer 2018
Tufts Magazine ran a series of articles on cyber security and policy titled In Focus: Cyber Insecurity:
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- Why Privacy is Essential to Security by Susan Landau
- We’re Heading Toward a Cyber Pearl Harbor by James Stavridis, Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
- Hacking Democracy, an interview with Adam Segal (F93), Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations.
- Banking on Trust by Siobhan MacDermott (F13), Bank of America’s Global Cyber Public Policy Executive
- When Attackers Pull the Plug on the Internet by Alison Lawlor Russell (F12), Professor of Political Science, Merrimack College
- Power Plants and Transportation Systems Are at Risk by Scott E. DePasquale (F14), President and CEO, Financial Systemic Analysis & Resilience Center.
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June 29, 2018
Kathleen Fisher, Chair of the Computer Science Department at Tufts University, appeared on Episode 147 of the Silver Bullet podcast.
June 21, 2018
Winnona DeSombre (A18) was featured on Threat Analyst Insights: An Early Career Perspective.
May 14, 2018
Susan Landau writes about Ray Ozzie’s Proposal for Exceptional Access Does Not Pass Muster.
May 7, 2018
Steve Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Dan Boneh, Susan Landau, Ronald Rivest comment on Ray Ozzie’s Crypto Proposal: A Dose of Technical Reality.
May 3, 2018
Susan Landau appeared on the Yale Press Blog episode Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age.
May 3, 2018
Susan Landau briefed Congressional staff in a session called “Bring in the Nerds”.
April 25, 2018
Susan Landau corrects a misreading of the National Academies Report on Encryption.
April 18, 2018
Susan Landau writes that The Russians Are Coming.
April 12, 2018
Susan Landau appeared on Conversations about Software Engineering: Security and Privacy.
March 30, 2018
National Student Hackathon Showcases Innovative Proposals to Thwart Cyberattacks.
March 30, 2018
Susan Landau shares Revelations on the FBI’s Unlocking of the San Bernardino Phone.
March 28, 2018
Susan Landau asks, What Went Wrong? Facebook and “Sharing Data” with Cambridge Analytica.
March 27, 2018
Susan Landau speaks about Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age.
March 26, 2018
Susan Landau writes, No Facebook, It’s Not About Security; It’s About Privacy.
March 11, 2018
Winnona deSombra (A18) appeared in the TEDxTufts 2018 Speaker Series.
March 7, 2018
Susan Landau appeared on Studio Tulsa.
February 2018
Susan Landau was a committee member for Decrypting the Encryption Debate: A Framework for Decision Makers.
February 28, 2018
Susan Landau writes that Encrypted Smartphones Secure Your Identity, Not Just Your Data.
February 26, 2018
Susan Landau writes about Understanding Data Breaches as National Security Threats.
February 12, 2018
Susan Landau writes about What Law Enforcement Needs for Investigations in the Digital Age.
February 6, 2018
Susan Landau appeared on the Lawfareblog’s Cyberlaw Podcast.
January 31, 2018
Ming Chow speaks about Failings in Cybersecurity Education.
January 19, 2018
Kathleen Fisher asks, Will we ever be able to trust self-driving cars?
January 12, 2018
Susan Landau writes about Cybersecurity: Time for a New Definition.
December 20, 2017
Susan Landau writes about Using Threat Modeling to Secure America.
November 24, 2017
Susan Landau appeared on the Books, et al., podcast.
November 21, 2017
Susan Landau speaks about Encryption, iPhones And Russia: Susan Landau On Cybersecurity.
November 20, 2017
Susan Landau discusses Why We Need To Secure Our Data In An Insecure Age.
November 10, 2017
Susan Landau discusses Why We Need Stronger Cybersecurity and What We Risk.
November 1, 2017
Susan Landau writes that Real Security Requires Encryption—Even if Investigators Get Blocked.
October 27, 2017
Susan Landau writes about Punching the Wrong Bag: The Deputy AG Enters the Crypto Wars.
September 8, 2017
Kathleen Fisher speaks about The Car You Drive: How Vulnerable is it to Hacking?