News and Press Updates from the NEU SecLab
Recent Activities
- 23 Dec 2020
- Our KUBO paper, on precise and scalable detection of undefined behavior bugs in OS kernel, is to appear at NDSS 2021.
- 10 Oct 2020
Google will sponsor our research on hardware-based memory safety via an ASPIRE Award.
- 12 Sep 2020
NSF will fund our research on optimizing fuzzing for vulnerability coverage.
- 23 Aug 2020
Two papers, FICS (finding bugs using your own code) and PTAuth (points-to authentication for temporal safety), are accepted by USENIX Security'21
- 5 Jun 2020
Long is awarded (early) tenure at Northeastern.
- 4 May 2020
Our MEUZZ paper is accepted by RAID 2020.
- 28 Feb 2020
Long gave a talk at the Google Android Security Summit in Mountain View.
- 19 Nov 2019
Engin gave a talk at the US embassy in London on how to use AI to detect cyber attacks.
- 16 Sep 2019
Engin gave a keynote at the 22nd Information Security Conference in New York City.
- 09 Sep 2019
Engin gave a talk at the CROSSING conference in Darmstadt, Germany.
- 01 Sep 2019
Engin became the Executive Director of the Northeastern Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute.
- 07 Jul 2019
Engin attended AsiaCCS in Auckland, New Zealand.
- 18 Jun 2019
Engin lectured in the Real-World Crypto and Privacy Summer School in Croatia.
- 24 May 2019
Engin attended the Mozilla Security Summit in SF.
- 27 Mar 2019
Engin attended a panel at SecureWorld Boston.
- 25 Mar 2019
Engin gave a keynote at CODASPY 2019 in Dallas, TX.
- 11 Mar 2019
Some of our team members attended a workshop in Japan organized by Yokohama National University.
- 08 Dec 2018
Some of our team members attended ACSAC 2019 where we also presented a paper.
- 08 Nov 2018
Engin gave a keynote at IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2018 in Miami.
- 15 Sep 2018
Engin gave a keynote at RAID 2018 in Crete.
- 21 May 2018
Some of us attended the IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium, and Amin presented a paper.
- 27 Apr 2018
Toby presented a paper for us at this year's WWW conference in Lyon, France.
- 27 Feb 2018
Michael presented a paper at FTC's PrivacyCon.
- 15 Dec 2017
Engin gave an invited talk at the TUSIAD data security in business informational event in Istanbul.
- 03 Oct 2017
Engin attended the Euro SP PC meeting in London.
- 03 Oct 2017
Engin gave a talk at FS-ISAC in Baltimore on sandboxing systems and malware.
- 29 Sep 2017
Engin attended a Ph.D. thesis defense at Eurecom -- our sister lab in France.
- 28 Sep 2017
Amin just visited UIUC and gave a talk there.
- 16 Sep 2017
A bunch of us will be attending RAID in Atlanta, and we'll have two papers to present.
- 12 Sep 2017
Engin gave a talk on ransomware at the Healthcare Security Forum in downtown Boston.
- 22 Aug 2017
A bunch of us just attended USENIX Security in Vancouver, and Engin co-chaired it.
- 01 Aug 2017
Engin visited the National University of Singapore, and spent some time there for a joint project. Thanks to NUS for hosting us!
- 22 May 2017
A number of us are attending IEEE Security and Privacy in San Jose, CA.
- 10 May 2017
We hosted the USENIX Security 2017 PC meeting in Boston at ISEC.
- 27 Feb 2017
Engin gave a keynote at the 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SWANER).
- 26 Feb 2017
A number of us are attending NDSS 2017 in San Diego.
- 21 Nov 2016
Kaan defended his Ph.D.! Congratulations!
- 22 Oct 2016
Some lab members attended the ACM CCS conference in Vienna, Austria.
- 11 Aug 2016
A bunch of us just attended USENIX Security in Austin.
- 01 Jun 2016
Andrea just attended IEEE S&P in San Jose.
- 22 Feb 2016
Ahmet will be doing a presentation at Blackhat Asia in Singapore.
- 20 Feb 2016
- 29 Jan 2016
- 26 Jan 2016
Some of us will be at Blackhat Asia in Singapore to give a presentation.
Press
- 16 Dec 2020
- 30 Oct 2020
- 13 Oct 2020
Engin authored an interdisciplinary article with Prof. Miller from BU on Cyberwarfare.
- 5 Jun 2020
VMware snaps up network security firm Lastline that Engin co-founded.
- 28 Feb 2020
CNet interviewed Engin on red flags for apps.
- 22 Feb 2020
We are honored that PortSwigger named our web cache deception paper the top web hacking technique of 2019!
- 25 Dec 2019
ZDNet, PortSwigger, CyWare Hacker News, Technology Decisions, and The Cyber Security Place have reported on our recent measurement study showing that web cache deception attacks remain a threat to Internet safety.
- 26 Nov 2019
NPR talked to Engin about potential USB attacks at airports.
- 21 Oct 2019
eFM South Korea interviewed Engin on the dark web and how criminals misuse Tor.
- 21 Oct 2019
Yahoo News quoted Engin on Northeastern defending its title in the 2nd Boston Cybersecurity Beanpot Challenge.
- 26 Sep 2019
- 21 Mar 2019
USA Today quoted Engin on Facebook storing passwords unencrypted.
- 22 Jan 2019
Reuters, MSN, and Yahoo Finance featured a video interview of Engin on Facebook blocking Russian-connected accounts.
- 07 Dec 2018
Andrea gave an interview to The Register on Speculator.
- 23 Nov 2018
Metro talked to Engin on attacks during Cyber Monday.
- 12 Oct 2018
Dark Reading printed an article from Kaan on how Security Researchers Struggle with Bot Management Programs.
- 27 Apr 2018
Security Boulevard quoted Engin on security issues when enabling a mobile security workforce.
- 26 Apr 2018
A number of articles 1, 2 quoted Engin on the BGP security incident that Amazon faced.
- 04 Apr 2018
ZDNet quoted Engin on how to write a good security policy for BYOD or company-owned mobile devices.
- 31 Mar 2018
A number of articles 1,2,3,4,5 quoted Engin on the attacks against MyFitnessPal.
- 30 Mar 2018
Bloomberg quoted Engin on the cyber-attack against Underarmour.
- 23 Mar 2018
CNBC quoted Engin on the security of tax software.
- 22 Mar 2018
Engin talked to Northeastern News about the recent reported attacks against critical infrastructures.
- 22 Mar 2018
Engin was cited by the Washington Post on the security of SMBs.
- 21 Mar 2018
Engin was cited by TechRepublic on the security of SMBs.
- 08 Mar 2018
Engin was cited in an article on 5 easy ways to keep yourself cybersecure at work.
- 05 Sep 2017
- 16 Aug 2017
Some of our thoughts on AI and computer security.
- 18 Jul 2017
Healthcare IT news interviewed Engin on some of the recent attacks.
- 12 Jul 2017
Our Lastline has compiled $28.5 million Series C funding.
- 24 May 2017
Our Lastline doubles business by taking guesswork out of malware fight.
- 16 May 2017
Moneyish cites some suggestions from us for protection against malware attacks.
- 14 Apr 2017
Some of our comments on security-related scenes in the The Fate of the Furious film.
- 08 Mar 2017
Some of our comments on the CIA hacking documents that were leaked.
- 16 Feb 2017
Some of our thoughts on charging stations hacking phones.
- 10 Feb 2017
IT Security News talked to Engin on malware. Here is the podcast.
- 22 Dec 2016
Some of Engin's thoughts on the Russian DNC hacking.
- 05 Dec 2016
Engin had some comments on the Computer Science Education Week.
- 30 Oct 2016
- 24 Aug 2016
Tech Republic reported on Olympic Scams and talked to Engin.
- 18 Aug 2016
Archer News just quoted Engin on ransomware for wearable systems.
- 11 Aug 2016
Bankinfosecurity reported on UNVEIL, our ransomware detection system.
- 29 Jul 2016
MIT Technology Review reported on UNVEIL, our ransomware detection system.
- 06 Jun 2016
SC Magazin reported on a Trojan in the Google Play Store and talked to Engin.
- 23 May 2016
The Conversation featured an article by Amin on ransomware attacks.
- 21 Apr 2016
DarkReading quoted Engin on steps to take for backing up data against ransomware attacks.
- 05 Apr 2016
Threatpost reported on our research on Firefox extension-reuse vulnerabilities.
- 16 Mar 2016
- 20 Feb 2016
Christian Science Monitor reported on ransomware, and quoted Engin.
- 25 Sep 2015
Christian Science Monitor reported on targeted attacks, and quoted Engin.
- 04 Aug 2015
Network World reported on our research on ransomware.
- 16 Jul 2014
ThreatPost reported on our research on the challenges in CSP adoption.
- 17 Apr 2014
Slashdot reported on our research on the effect of Heartbleed on Tor.
- 17 Apr 2014
ThreatPost reported on our research on the effect of Heartbleed on Tor.
- 17 Apr 2014
Heise reported on our research on the effect of Heartbleed on Tor.
- 26 Mar 2014
ThreatPost reported on our GUI vulnerability detection approach.
- 25 Mar 2014
CNET reported on our mobile security research presented at CanSecWest.
- 05 Mar 2014
Business Insider discusses air-gapped malware with us.
- 01 Mar 2013
SC Magazine reports on Collin's panel discussion at the RSA conference on the safety of iOS versus Android.
- 20 Jan 2013
Le Monde also referenced our Clickonomics paper in a recent news article (in French).
- 11 Jan 2013
A report on our Clickonomics paper was published by TorrentFreak.
- 08 Jan 2013
iSecLab's Lastline listed as must-watch security startup Network World.
- 02 Dec 2012
A report on our upload payments paper was published by TorrentFreak.
- 13 Nov 2012
DarkReading reports on Lastline, Inc., a new startup from the SecLab.
- 23 Oct 2012
DarkReading reports on our ACSAC paper on large-scale botnet analysis.
- 08 Oct 2012
DarkReading reports on our USENIX Security paper on PubCrawl, a detector for automated abuse of websites.
- 11 Aug 2012
Forbes reports on our paper on the security of Amazon Cloud services.
- 15 Mar 2012
Forbes reports on our recent work on HTTP parameter pollution.
- 08 Feb 2012
New Scientist published a report on our EXPOSURE, our service for identifying malicious domains.
- 25 Jan 2012
The MIT Technology Review published on article on our study of privacy-violating iPhone apps.