Author: Emerald Knox (Emerald Knox)

BlackBerry, which has rebranded as a security company as its mobile handset business fades, purchased Cylance, the machine-learning based anti-malware company, for $1.4 billion dollars last week. … “It’s possible they [BlackBerry] could add machine learning-specific backdoors of the style we proposed last year that makes it ignore their own state-sponsored malware,’ Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, an...

Article features research by a team including Philip Bontrager, a Ph.D. student at the NYU Game Innovation Lab at NYU Tandon, and lab director Julian Togelius and Nasir Memon, professors in the department of computer science and engineering. “These experiments demonstrate the need for multi-factor authentication and should be a wake-up call for device manufacturers...

We are proud to announce that a team of four members from the Brown University Executive Master in Cybersecurity (EMCS) Class of 2019 won first place in the policy category at CSAW’18, the world’s largest student-led hacking and security competition. The New York University Tandon School of Engineering hosted the policy portion of CSAW in...

Tunisia has just joined the international Cyber ??Security Awareness Worldwide (CSAW) competition in 2018, and will host the regional competition at the Tunis Telecommunications College (Sup’Com). … The Cyber ??Security Awareness Worldwide (CSAW), first organized in 2003 by Professor Nasir Memon of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, and run by students, was...

For the first time in 15 years, the best Mexican cybersecurity students will compete in the final round of Cyber ??Security Awareness Worldwide (CSAW) at the Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City, from November 8 to 11, 2018. They will also participate simultaneously against hackers from different countries. CSAW was founded in 2003 by the New York...

… This year, participants breached design files to 3D print counterfeit parts, and a team of five hacked an ATM, leaving with $2,000 in cash. But these cyber whizzes are not wanted criminals—they were competitors in the 15th Annual Cyber Security Awareness Week, or CSAW, conference hosted by the New York University Center for Cybersecurity...

For a second year in a row, a team of students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute earned top honors at the 15th anniversary edition of Cyber Security Awareness Week. A team of four computer science students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute once again took home top honors at the 15th anniversary edition of Cyber Security Awareness Week...

Backdoors in machine learning have gotten little attention, but researchers have demonstrated proofs of concept for how such backdoors might work. ‘It’s possible they could add machine learning-specific backdoors of the style we proposed last year that makes it ignore their own state-sponsored malware,’ Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, an assistant professor in the computer science and engineering...

The OSET Institute logged more than 900 individual reports of voting issues, according to the TrustTheVote Project’s first PollWatch campaign. But the problems weren’t the anticipated cyberattacks. Written by our Cybersecurity Service Scholar Marc Canellas.

Ramesh Karri and Farshad Khorrami, professors in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NYU Tandon, and Michail Maniatakos, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Tandon were involved in the tests featured in this article. … There is evidence that nation-state attackers are already targeting power grids...