MIT Lincoln Laboratory is open and operating today, with an emphasis on remote operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hanscom Air Force Base has declared Force Protection Condition Bravo.

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Analysts use the Lincoln Adaptable Real-time Information Assurance Testbed (LARIAT) to evaluate the effectiveness of cyber defense techniques.

Cyber System Assessments

Our team discovers novel vulnerabilities in systems ranging from computers and cellphones to cars and jet fighters. In order to improve the defenses of systems, we use reverse engineering to find ways to maintain control over hardware and software. We coordinate with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community to evaluate cyber defense systems and enable effective cyber operations.

The LAVA system automatically injects bugs into program code so that vulnerability discovery techniques can be tested.

Large-scale Automated Vulnerability Addition

Computer scientists can test techniques for finding vulnerabilities in code.

PANDA's replay log files are compact and shareable, allowing for repeatable experiments. For example, a nine billion instruction set is represented by only a few hundred megabytes.

PANDA – Platform for Architecture-Neutral Dynamic Analysis

An open source platform helps analysts quickly reverse engineer large, real-world binary systems to better analyze how software executes.

An illustration of 4 people near eachother looking at their phones, with bluetooth signals emanating from the phones.

In the Media

Bluetooth signals from your smartphone could automate Covid-19 contact tracing while preserving privacy

Apr 9

MIT News

Thirty-eight Lab RATs, weary after 52 hours of hacking competitors' computer networks, posed for a team photograph at the DEF CON Capture the Flag competition held at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo: Wilson Wong

Team from Lincoln Laboratory scores big at international hacking competition

Sep 13

I am continually amazed at how much professional involvement is encouraged. Lincoln Laboratory is very good at supporting people's interests.

Sarah Chmielewski

Computer Scientist

Cyber Security and Information Sciences

Cyber System Assessments

Sarah Chmielewski - Computer Scientist

Feb

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Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security 2021

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Artificial intelligence: short history, present developments, and future outlook, final report

Jan 1

MIT Lincoln Laboratory Report

Mission assurance: beyond secure processing

Jul 16

18th IEEE Int. Conf. on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security, QRS 2018, 16-20 July 2018, pp. 593-8.

SoK: privacy on mobile devices - it's complicated

Mar 2

Proc. on Privacy Enhancing Techn., Vol. 3, 2016, pp. 96-116.

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View the biographies of members of the Cyber System Assessments Group.

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Staff can use a private wireless network to research mobile device technology in the Mobile Device Lab.

Mobile Device Lab

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