“Email addresses are valuable for spammers because the attackers would know that active, real users are behind these addresses,” said Engin Kirda, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “The dark web is usually where data like this is sold to the highest bidder.”

Hashed passwords, however, are still valuable information for hackers, according to Northeastern University Northeastern Professor Engin Kirda. “Having the hashes means that attackers can launch offline brute-force guessing attacks against these passwords and potentially crack many of them as users are often notoriously bad in choosing good passwords,” Kirda said in a statement to BuzzFeed […]

Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, discusses Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s agreement to appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the company’s data usage policies. He speaks with Bloomberg’s June Grasso.

Gish, who is 20 years old, is currently enrolled as a music industry major at Northeastern University in Boston. As a student there, she is required to alternate coursework with full-time internships, and at the moment, the rising bedroom pop sensation is living in an apartment in Manhattan while she interns in the A&R department […]

In one study, for instance, researchers at Northeastern University recruited a group of volunteers and, on the basis of responses they had given to some questions, informed them they were either habitual “overestimators” or “underestimators.” (In reality, the feedback was fake). Next they introduced the volunteers to another person, who, unbeknownst to them, was cooperating with […]

A recent study by Harvard University and Northeastern University found that the number of privately owned guns in America grew by more than 70 million — to approximately 265 million — between 1994 and 2015. But half of those guns are owned by only 3 percent of the population. That small base of what are […]

Everyone cannot do it. But Palejko is not alone, either. He is among dozens of people that James Heathers, a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University, identified during and after a recent study on the phenomenon. Heathers posted a preprint—which has not yet been peer reviewed—describing 32 people who can control their goose bumps, and he’s […]

To scientists, the “Why am I seeing this?” function is particularly important for understanding how the Facebook system is used or misused, says one of the authors, professor Alan Mislove of Boston’s Northeastern University. “It’s one of the few transparency mechanisms they have,” he says. “Credit where credit’s due. We certainly appreciate that they’re doing […]

In lieu of congressional action on user data privacy, the FTC has had to serve as the last line of defense in protecting personal information online. That has become increasingly difficult now that almost every industry relies on consumer data obtained online to inform its decisions — resulting in more instances of hacks and breaches […]

To counter these threats, we need to take practical steps limiting the exposure of critical infrastructure to cyberattacks. Although there is no hope of providing complete protection, we can do better than at present. In an interview, Robert K. Knake, a former Obama administration official now at Northeastern University, made three useful suggestions.

“My school will now always be remembered for what took place on Feb. 14, 2018,” said Leslie Chiu, a graduate of Stoneman Douglas who attends Northeastern University. In one poignant moment, Leonor Muñoz, a survivor of the Feb. 14 shooting that killed 17 people, was joined on stage by her sister, Beca, a Northeastern student.

Researchers have attempted to categorize hate crimes in hopes of understanding what makes them manifest. Jack Levin and Jack McDevitt at Northeastern University published a study detailing several types of hate crimes, including retaliatory hate crimes that are provoked by a previous perceived hate crime or act of terrorism. Incidents like the Rodney King verdict […]