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General NBC Boston
Privacy concerns with MBTA security app
- June 1, 2017
There may be a catch when it comes to your personal information and how an MBTA safety app may be monitoring you. -
General Fast Company
Here’s how to track the smartphone apps that are tracking you
- May 31, 2017
When it comes to websites, we have ever more sophisticated techniques at our disposal to block the ads that sometimes track our wanderings around the internet. But most of us spend much of our time these days in mobile apps that offer no transparency on how we’re being tracked or sold–nor tools for blocking that behavior. -
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CCIS and CAMD Professor Tapped as HEVGA Fellow
- May 23, 2017
By Gwendolyn Schanker Associate Professor Magy Seif El-Nasr is the embodiment of interdisciplinary research at Northeastern. A faculty member with joint appointments in the College of Computer and Information Science […] -
CCIS Congratulates Huntington 100 recipients
- May 23, 2017
By Julia Renner Ten students in the College of Computer and Information Science have been selected as winners of the Huntington 100, annually awarded to students who “truly embody the […] -
CCIS students win best mobile app at all female hackathon
- May 23, 2017
By Gwendolyn Schanker Sarah Chou, Sreeya Sai, and Tina Lee, second-year computer science (CS) majors, find that spending time with a group of like-minded women is always a great motivator. […] -
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General News at Northeastern
Film featuring CCIS Professor’s research earns national attention
- May 18, 2017
How would you feel if someone were following you everywhere you went? To your home, to work, to dinner? Or, more specifically, how would you feel if something were following […] -
General News at Northeastern
Global ransomware attacks: The impact and the response
- May 16, 2017
A global cyberattack unleashed Friday has reportedly affected more than 200,000 computers across more than 150 countries. The “ransomware,” called “WannaCry,” exploits a vulnerability in the Windows operating system. The […]
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