News Category: General
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Co-ops lead to a job in the fashion industry
- March 17, 2017
By Julia Renner The only way a product can reach a consumer “is if there’s an entire life cycle of technology behind it,” says Theresa Aristarco, who graduated from Northeastern […] -
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General The Wall Street Journal
The big security mistakes companies make when buying tech
- March 16, 2017
Companies are expected to spend more than $3 trillion on workplace technology this year, buying everything from traditional servers to augmented-reality glasses. For many, those purchases will make them more efficient, more innovative—and more vulnerable to attacks on their information security. -
General TechRepublic
Wikileaks’ CIA hacks: Apple says it’s already fixed many of the flaws mentioned
- March 15, 2017
If the leaked documents are verified, it could have major security implications for Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, and all other tech companies. However, it's not exactly a surprise that these devices are able to be hacked, said Engin Kirda, professor of computer science at Northeastern University. -
General News at NortheasternDecoding wiretapping technology
- March 10, 2017
While the legal framework for justifying and ordering a wiretap is complex and multilayered, professor Guevara Noubir, an expert in the privacy, security, and robustness of network systems in the College of Computer and Information Science, said that “from a technological perspective, wiretapping has always been feasible and rather easy.” -
General Bleeping Computer
Over a third of websites use outdated and vulnerable JavaScript libraries
- March 10, 2017
More than a third of the websites you visit online may include an outdated JavaScript library that's vulnerable to one or more security flaws. This is the conclusion of recent research carried out by a team of six scientists from the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University, who scanned over 133,000 domains and found that 37% loaded outdated and insecure JavaScript libraries. -
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GE Hackathon Challenge
- March 10, 2017
What do one iconic American corporation, 40 graduate students, 10 projects, one dancing robot and fancy cupcakes have in common? The GE Hackathon Challenge of course! Hosted by the College […] -
General Assembly
Humanoid robots ‘live’ it up at Northeastern
- March 9, 2017
Valkyrie is one of the newest “kids” on campus at Boston’s Northeastern University. She stands 6 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 285 pounds and dreams about exploring Mars someday. However, Valkyrie isn’t a student. She’s an advanced humanoid robot that resides at the school’s Robotics and Intelligent Vehicles Research Laboratory (RIVeR). The organization is working with NASA to improve Valkyrie, with the goal of sending the robot to Mars.