The map provides details of the company’s software, points to the types of data that might be exposed inadvertently and then suggests what types of flaws are most likely to be found. Uber has previously guarded information about its code, with a team of researchers from Northeastern University recently describing the algorithm that makes its […]

Today I think, in part [due] to social media, there’s a real cacophony of voices within terrorist groups. … The reliability of the terrorist messaging has declined as lower-level members can post online,” said Max Abrahms, a political science professor at Northeastern University in Boston and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. At the same time, […]

“I think our public officials, our elected officials, are aware of that possibility,” said Northeastern University security expert Sean Burke. Burke said we need to reassess the resources that we are putting towards security and investigate whether there are improvements we can make. He said regular travelers will most likely be the first to recognize […]

“Whether it’s saving for retirement, or thinking about the health of your lifestyle in terms of your diet and whether you smoke,” said Matthew Nisbet, who studies science and communication at Northeastern University, “people not only discount a possible future risk, but also tend to have an optimistic bias, in that ‘these risks might affect […]

The first came in the same 60 Minutes interview, when Hillary said she was not “standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette.” It was a relatively innocuous pop culture reference, but when she later told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell that “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas,” it started to […]

If you’ve hosted an international student while they studied in the U.S., there’s a tax break for that. You can deduct $50 for any month when an exchange student lives in your home for 15 days or more.To qualify, it “requires an official agreement with a sponsoring organization, and the student must be a full-time […]

A 2015 study of hedge funds found that only 2.6 percent in the sample were managed exclusively by women and 4.6 percent name any women as managers, again resulting in a fairly small sample size. There were only 439 hedge funds identified with any women managers over the 20 years covered by the study, carried […]