Engin Kirda

Engin Kirda, the Sy and Laurie Stern­berg Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Asso­ciate Pro­fessor for Infor­ma­tion Assur­ance, devel­oped new soft­ware for detecting and con­taining mali­cious webcrawlers.

As part of a Monday after­noon lec­ture on cyber­se­cu­rity, Engin Kirda was installed as the inau­gural Sy and Laurie Stern­berg Asso­ciate Pro­fessor for Infor­ma­tion Assurance.

The cyber­se­cu­rity threat rep­re­sents one of the nation’s most serious eco­nomic and national secu­rity chal­lenges, said Stephen Flynn, the founding co-​​​​director of Northeastern’s George J. Kostas Research Insti­tute for Home­land … read more »

On Wednesday, uni­ver­sity experts exam­ined how to combat cyberthreats facing America, as law­makers are con­sid­ering cyber­se­cu­rity legislation.

The hacker group Anony­mous recently announced through a YouTube video that it plans to “kill” Face­book on Nov. 5 for sup­pos­edly abusing the pri­vacy of its users. We asked Engin Kirda, the Sy and Laurie Stern­berg Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Endowed Pro­fessor for Infor­ma­tion Assur­ance — with joint appoint­ments in Northeastern’s Col­lege of Com­puter and Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence and Depart­ment of Elec­trical and Com­puter Engi­neering — to dis­cuss the poten­tial impli­ca­tions of the hack and the motives behind hacking groups such as Anonymous.

In late April, a hacker crip­pled Sony’s PlaySta­tion Net­work by stealing the names, home addresses and per­haps even the credit card num­bers of some 70 mil­lion sub­scribers, who play and down­load games through the online ser­vice. Here, pro­fessor Engin Kirda assesses the impact of the attack.

Internet attacks offer intriguing research chal­lenges for new pro­fessor, who will look at the user’s role in cre­ating vulnerabilities