UW CSE’s security lab featured on David Pogue’s PBS NOVA Science NOW

David Pogue’s PBS NOVA Science NOW featured the work of UW CSE Security and Privacy Research Lab as the final segment of the episode “Can Science Stop Crime?”

Those featured include UW CSE faculty member Yoshi Kohno, UW CSE Ph.D. alum Dan Halperin, and UW CSE Ph.D. students Karl Koscher, Franzi Roesner, Alexei “Crash” Czeskis – and the work of these and others.

Watch this 12-minute PBS NOVA Science NOW segment!

Watch Can Science Stop Crime? on PBS. See more from NOVA scienceNOW.

UW CSE’s Yoshi Kohno (and really the whole Security Lab) to be featured Wednesday on PBS TV NOVA scienceNOW

The Seattle Times describes this Wednesday’s PBS TV NOVA scienceNOW:

“For most people, computer security means just that: Keeping viruses off your desktop or laptop, your PC or your Mac.

“But when Tadayoshi Kohno thinks of computers and security, he thinks about the vulnerabilities inherent in a whole range of devices that are increasingly connected wirelessly to the Internet, to cellphones or to each other.

“A computer scientist at the University of Washington, Kohno has proved that you can hack and take over the circuitry of a pacemaker, an implantable defibrillator, a child’s toy, a mileage-tracking device for runners, and — perhaps most chilling of all — a car.

“Kohno, 34, is so good at what he does that government regulators and manufacturers habitually beat a path to his door, in the UW’s computer science and engineering department, where he is an associate professor.

“Kohno will be featured Wednesday on PBS’s NOVA scienceNOW, in an episode that examines whether science can help solve crime.”

Read more here. Watch NOVA scienceNOW on PBS TV on Wednesday (in Seattle, 10 p.m. on KCTS-9)!

Security Lab’s Alexei Czeskis interviewed about White House network breach

Alexei Czeskis, a Ph.D. student in UW CSE’s Security and Privacy Research Lab, is interviewed by The Voice of Russia – American Edition.

“After news surfaced over the weekend that a U.S. government computer network was breached by hackers, computer security experts have weighed on the situation, calling it ‘a game between defenders and attackers.’ …

“Host Jessica Jordan spoke with Alexei Czeskis, a Ph.D. candidate in the Security and Privacy Research Lab at the University of Washington, to learn more about the hacking and computer security.”

Listen to the interview here.

Security Lab’s Tamara Denning wins 2012 Intel Ph.D. Fellowship

UW CSE Ph.D. student Tamara Denning, who works with professor Yoshi Kohno in UW’s Security and Privacy Research Lab, has been named on of 18 recipients of 2012 Intel Ph.D. Fellowships. Tamara was one of 3 of the 18 to win special recognition of her research at a technical poster session for all of the awardees.

Meet Tamara and the other 2012 Intel Ph.D. Fellowship winners here. Learn about Tamara’s work here.

“The vulnerability of high-tech cars”

American Public Media writes:

“Any computer hooked up to the Internet is a potential victim of malicious hackers.

“Of course, it’s one thing to be hacked on a desktop PC, it’s quite another to be hacked in your car, traveling at 70 miles an hour, with a computer that controls your brakes and steering.

“Yoshi Kohno is part of a research team studying car computer security at the University of Washington. He says don’t freak out. Yet. ‘Right now, my grad students are the only people who are likely to hack your car.’”

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