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Sharon Goldberg

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute at Boston University

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    Sharon Goldberg is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Boston University, and a faculty fellow at BU’s Hariri Institute.

    Her research uses tools from theory (cryptography, game-theory, algorithms), and networking (measurement, modeling, and simulation) to solve practical problems in network security. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2009, her B.A.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 2003, has worked as a researcher at IBM, Cisco, and Microsoft, as an engineer at Bell Canada and Hydro One Networks, and has served on working groups of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). In 2014 she received two IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prizes, an NSF CAREER Award, and a Sloan Research Fellowship.

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    Researchers warn computer clocks can be easily scrambled

    October 22, 2015

    PC World Sharon Goldberg, College of Arts & Sciences Researchers from Boston University said on Wednesday they’ve found several flaws in NTP that could undermine encrypted communications and even jam up bitcoin transactions… Expert quote: “We discovered the KOD vulnerability by just reading the specifications of the [NTP] protocol. We just saw this packet, and […]

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    Problematic protocol that directs all Web traffic finally gets attention

    August 7, 2015

    Christian Science Monitor Sharon Goldberg, College of Arts & Sciences The Border Gateway Protocol is as important to the Internet as it is completely unrecognizable by most people that use it. But that’s starting to change… Expert quote: “When we’ve been talking BGP in the past, all the events that caused damage were misconfigurations. In […]

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    Net of Insecurity: The Long Life of a Quick ‘Fix’

    June 1, 2015

    Washington Post Sharon Goldberg, College of Arts & Sciences By the time a pair of engineers sat down for lunch together in Austin, the Internet’s growing pains had become dire… Expert quote: “You might laugh to see 5 percent, but do you know how much work it took to get here?” View full article

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    President Obama Needs to Cancel Executive Order 12333

    July 23, 2014

    Truthdig Sharon Goldberg, College of Arts & Sciences There’s a chance you’re being watched right now. We’re all too familiar with the bulk collection of cellphone metadata—information on whom you contact and when—that Edward Snowden revealed. However, Executive Order 12333 from 1981 (thanks, President Reagan) allows the NSA to collect the actual content from phone calls […]

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    Scholars warn of NSA loopholes

    July 10, 2014

    Boston Globe (subscription required) Sharon Goldberg, College of Arts & Sciences A report from researchers at Harvard University and Boston University warns that the National Security Agency could freely monitor the electronic communications of American citizens by rerouting Internet traffic through overseas networks… Expert quote: “The reason we wrote this is to point out that it could […]

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    Supreme Court: Police can’t search cellphones without warrant

    June 26, 2014

    WCVB Sharon Goldberg, College of Arts & Sciences In an emphatic defense of privacy in the digital age, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police generally may not search the cellphones of people they arrest without first getting search warrants… View video of expert Sharon Goldberg

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