David Choffnes Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science choffnes@northeastern.edu 617.373.4239 Expertise crowdsourcing effectiveness, cybersecurity, mobile systems, networking and distributed systems David Choffnes in the Press Fortune Why big pharma is teaming up with AI giants to speed up drug discovery and make work easier for health care workers “We now have AWS, Azure and Cloudflare outages in the span of a month,” said David Choffnes, a professor of computer science at Northeastern University, told The New York Times. “That’s a very large portion of the biggest cloud providers in the world.” No, Your iPhone Isn’t Listening to You. Here’s What’s Really Happening Independent researchers have gone looking for covert “listening” and found none, including a definitive 2018 Northeastern University study that has yet to be superseded. What they did catch in a handful of cases were screen recordings or image and video uploads to third parties. Creepy, sure, but not a hot mic. ‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing Yet there were critics even in the moment of glory. “It reveals the kind of sweeping surveillance going on,” warned David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston, when contacted by a reporter. One Tech Tip: How to protect your 23andMe genetic data “At a fundamental biological level, this is you and only you,” said David Choffnes, a computer science professor at Northeastern University and executive director of its Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute. Our homes may be smarter — but are we getting dumber? David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University, notes that “when we think of what happens between the walls of our homes, we think of it as a trusted, private place. What 23andMe’s bankruptcy means for your DNA data “At a fundamental biological level, this is you and only you,” said David Choffnes, a computer science professor at Northeastern University and executive director of its Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute. CBC Radio Is your car spying on you? Here’s how vehicles gather your data “This is unfortunately not surprising that they have this data,” said David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston. ABC News What will happen to TikTok on Apple and Google’s app store on Sunday? Meanwhile, David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston, said he believes there’s a “small chance” that nothing happens to TikTok, but acknowledged that would require “enormous risk on the on the part of the companies that support them.” What will happen to TikTok on Apple and Google’s app store on Sunday? Meanwhile, David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston, said he believes there’s a “small chance” that nothing happens to TikTok, but acknowledged that would require “enormous risk on the on the part of the companies that support them.” WCVB TV Massachusetts politicians, TikTok users react to Supreme Court’s decision to uphold TikTok ban Northeastern University professor David Choffnes says data collection leading to targeting ads is mostly harmless. “People should be concerned in general when they’re using apps that collect all kinds of information about us,” Choffnes said. David Choffnes for Northeastern Global NewsWhat caused Amazon Web Services to go down? A Northeastern expert explainsDavid Choffnes says the outage is yet another example of the fragility of our internet infrastructure. White House Signal mishap ‘would never have happened’ if leaders used official channels, cybersecurity expert says“The main issue isn’t whether Signal is secure, it’s that it shouldn’t be used for communicating classified info,” says David Choffnes. Your voice assistant is profiling you, just not in the way you expect, new research findsNew Northeastern research reveals the ways voice assistants track, monitor and profile user behavior. Uber and Lyft unintentionally sent gig workers’ Social Security numbers to social media companies, new Northeastern research uncoversUber and Lyft unintentionally sent gig workers' Social Security numbers to Meta and TikTok, new Northeastern research reveals. What is net neutrality? And why it’s vital to the future of the internet, Northeastern computer scientist explainsDavid Choffnes says net neutrality is important with 5G, streaming , telemedicine, remote learning, or even watching TikTok. NSF grant will allow researchers from around the world to improve security of smart devices — remotelyNortheastern professor David Choffnes will use a grant to shed light on shortcomings of smart devices as part of the SPHERE initiative. Automakers cleared in privacy lawsuit. Are your texts and call logs at risk? And what other data is being collected?Cybersecurity expert David Choffnes says the decision raises the question as to what other data automakers might be collecting. The smart home tech inside your home is less secure than you think, new Northeastern research findsDavid Choffnes and a team of researchers discovered vulnerabilities in smart home devices made by big technology companies like Google. TikTok won’t be banned from US app stores. Here’s why.TikTok doesn’t pose a national security threat to the U.S. any more than some of our most beloved apps such as Facebook and Twitter, says David Choffnes, associate professor of computer science. Banning the app would require a vote from Congress and massive changes in net neutrality. Are Alexa, Siri, and Cortana recording your private conversations?Smart speakers aren’t recording all the time, says David Choffnes, an associate professor of computer sciences. “But that doesn’t mean there’s no cause for concern.”
Fortune Why big pharma is teaming up with AI giants to speed up drug discovery and make work easier for health care workers “We now have AWS, Azure and Cloudflare outages in the span of a month,” said David Choffnes, a professor of computer science at Northeastern University, told The New York Times. “That’s a very large portion of the biggest cloud providers in the world.”
No, Your iPhone Isn’t Listening to You. Here’s What’s Really Happening Independent researchers have gone looking for covert “listening” and found none, including a definitive 2018 Northeastern University study that has yet to be superseded. What they did catch in a handful of cases were screen recordings or image and video uploads to third parties. Creepy, sure, but not a hot mic.
‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing Yet there were critics even in the moment of glory. “It reveals the kind of sweeping surveillance going on,” warned David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston, when contacted by a reporter.
One Tech Tip: How to protect your 23andMe genetic data “At a fundamental biological level, this is you and only you,” said David Choffnes, a computer science professor at Northeastern University and executive director of its Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute.
Our homes may be smarter — but are we getting dumber? David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University, notes that “when we think of what happens between the walls of our homes, we think of it as a trusted, private place.
What 23andMe’s bankruptcy means for your DNA data “At a fundamental biological level, this is you and only you,” said David Choffnes, a computer science professor at Northeastern University and executive director of its Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute.
CBC Radio Is your car spying on you? Here’s how vehicles gather your data “This is unfortunately not surprising that they have this data,” said David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston.
ABC News What will happen to TikTok on Apple and Google’s app store on Sunday? Meanwhile, David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston, said he believes there’s a “small chance” that nothing happens to TikTok, but acknowledged that would require “enormous risk on the on the part of the companies that support them.”
What will happen to TikTok on Apple and Google’s app store on Sunday? Meanwhile, David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston, said he believes there’s a “small chance” that nothing happens to TikTok, but acknowledged that would require “enormous risk on the on the part of the companies that support them.”
WCVB TV Massachusetts politicians, TikTok users react to Supreme Court’s decision to uphold TikTok ban Northeastern University professor David Choffnes says data collection leading to targeting ads is mostly harmless. “People should be concerned in general when they’re using apps that collect all kinds of information about us,” Choffnes said.
