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Cybersecurity Factory Propels NeuroMesh

In October 2016, Mirai, an IoT botnet, assaulted Dyn and took down major websites across the East Coast. This emphasized some pre-existing concerns we had about IoT and their general security posture as the IoT device market exploded. Our MIT-based team…

Starting up Commonwealth Crypto

Building a new cryptocurrency startup in Boston

In August 2016, my research group at Boston University (BU) posted a paper online announcing TumbleBit, a protocol that provides fast, secure, and anonymous…

How the Cybersecurity Factory Helped GitLinks

In Summer 2017, the GitLinks team partnered with the Cybersecurity Factory. We…

A Ten Week Startup

My friend Stephan and I used to work on random projects late into the school night. Dreaming of becoming the next Gates or Zuckerberg, we spent long hours in front of our computers coding what we thought would be the “next big thing.” I’ve always been fascinated with startups, but I wasn’t…

Summer 2016 at Cybersecurity Factory

My name is Chris and my startup Pixm was among a cohort of four teams that entered into Cybersecurity Factory’s 2016 summer program. Pixm’s platform provides visual search tools to identify phishing web pages in real time, without relying on reactive industry…