Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) has announced that the university’s colleagues in France and Germany will soon intimate Internet scholars of flaws in Skype (News - Alert) and other Internet-based phone systems.
During the Internet Measurement Conference 2011 in Berlin on November 2, 2011, their paper, “I Know Where You are and What You are Sharing,” will be presented. The authors are Chao Zhang and Keith Ross of NYU-Poly; Stevens Le Blond of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany; and Arnaud Legout and Walid Dabbous of the French research institute I.N.R.I.A Sophia Antipolis, university stated in a press release.
“These findings have real security implications for the hundreds of millions of people around the world who use VoIP or P2P file-sharing services,” said Ross, the Leonard J. Shustek Professor of Computer Science at NYU-Poly. “A hacker anywhere in the world could easily track the whereabouts and file-sharing habits of a Skype user – from private citizens to celebrities and politicians – and use the information for purposes of stalking, blackmail or fraud.”
Apart from tracking their peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing activity, the team uncovered several properties of Skype that can track ly users' locations over time, stated Ross. It does not prevent the privacy risk, even when a user blocks callers or connects from behind a Network Address Translation (NAT) – a common type of firewall.
In February 2011, the university received $500,000 grant from Brooklyn Community Foundation to encourage student to take up careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), two Brooklyn institutions have extended their partnership.
It is considered that this grant could triple the number of under-resourced central Brooklyn elementary, middle and high schools that employ students' fascination with robots to engage their interest in STEM subjects.
During the Internet Measurement Conference 2011 in Berlin on November 2, 2011, their paper, “I Know Where You are and What You are Sharing,” will be presented. The authors are Chao Zhang and Keith Ross of NYU-Poly; Stevens Le Blond of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany; and Arnaud Legout and Walid Dabbous of the French research institute I.N.R.I.A Sophia Antipolis, university stated in a press release.
“These findings have real security implications for the hundreds of millions of people around the world who use VoIP or P2P file-sharing services,” said Ross, the Leonard J. Shustek Professor of Computer Science at NYU-Poly. “A hacker anywhere in the world could easily track the whereabouts and file-sharing habits of a Skype user – from private citizens to celebrities and politicians – and use the information for purposes of stalking, blackmail or fraud.”
Apart from tracking their peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing activity, the team uncovered several properties of Skype that can track ly users' locations over time, stated Ross. It does not prevent the privacy risk, even when a user blocks callers or connects from behind a Network Address Translation (NAT) – a common type of firewall.
In February 2011, the university received $500,000 grant from Brooklyn Community Foundation to encourage student to take up careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), two Brooklyn institutions have extended their partnership.
It is considered that this grant could triple the number of under-resourced central Brooklyn elementary, middle and high schools that employ students' fascination with robots to engage their interest in STEM subjects.
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