News

Across Northeastern's global network, Khoury College's students, faculty, and staff are discovering, collaborating, and innovating, and their stories can be found here. Check Khoury News and Northeastern Global News for student and faculty achievements and stories, and Khoury in the Media for faculty perspectives on the day's news.

Showing 10 of 1553 results

  • The fake news phenomenon: How it spreads, and how to fight it

    • February 22, 2017

    “A well-functioning democracy requires a healthy ecosystem of truth-tellers,” said David Lazer, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer and Information Science at Northeastern and co-director of the university’s NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. “Citizens need to be informed, and we need institutions to communicate what’s happening in the world. In a democracy, we have to respect these enduring differences in a body politick, but the fact that there’s legitimate diversity doesn’t mean that all presentations of reality are legitimate.”

  • This message will ‘self-destruct’ in 3, 2…

    • February 22, 2017

    We asked assistant professor David Choffnes, a mobile systems expert in the College of Computer and Information Science, to explain how ephemeral messaging apps work and whether you should trust them to keep your conversations confidential.

    David Choffnes

  • Hackers vs. Cars – The cybersecurity risk of driving self-driving cars

    • February 16, 2017

    We asked professor Engin Kirda —a systems, software, and network security expert who holds joint appointments in the College of Computer and Information Science and the College of Engineering—to assess the cybersecurity risk of self-driving cars, with a particular focus on how carmakers are working to keep autonomous vehicles safe from hackers.

  • How to keep data leaks from getting out of hand

    • February 16, 2017

    Many apps give the personal information they collect about you to other companies without explicitly asking your permission. David Choffnes, a computer scientist at Northeastern University, uses a program called ReCon to look for leaky apps. He’s found dozens, including a few that transmit the names, locations, and even passwords of smartphone users without their permission.

  • Google will soon delete apps with no privacy policies from Play Store

    • February 14, 2017

    "I think it is a great thing that Google is putting more focus on users' privacy," said Engin Kirda, professor of computer science at Northeastern University. It is especially important in light of past cases in which apps available in the Play Store collected large volumes of sensitive data from users without their knowledge, including the URLs they visited, he added.

Showing 10 of 1553 results