Author: Emerald Knox (Emerald Knox)

Political advertisers are required to fill in a field that says who paid for the message in your news feed, but that does not necessarily tell you who they or their backers are. …A growing number of Facebook ads in the run-up to the election took advantage of that loophole to obscure or conceal the...

After besting a record-breaking 3,500 teams from more than 100 countries, an elite corps of high school, college, and graduate students will advance to the finals of the world’s biggest student-led cybersecurity contest: the New York University Tandon School of Engineering’sannual CSAW games. …  The scale of CSAW, in this, its 15th year, is evident...

It’s estimated that, by the year 2020, there will be around two million open and unfilled jobs in cybersecurity worldwide—currently, the United States faces a 200,000 person shortfall in this critical field. As an answer to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s recent call to create 10,000 cybersecurity jobs within the next decade, the NYU Tandon School...

Article features research by Damon McCoy, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon. …Through October 20, O’Rourke alone had spent $5.4 million advertising on the platform, according to Facebook’s Ad Archive Report. J. B. Pritzker, Kamala Harris, Andrew Cuomo, Claire McCaskill, and Heidi Heitkamp had spent $5.5 million total. O’Rourke’s opponent, Senator...

…“We’re seeing some really sophisticated operations,” says Damon McCoy, an assistant professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. Dr. McCoy and his colleagues started analyzing Facebook’s searchable database of these ads after the social network made the tool public in May. … Laura Edelson, a doctoral student at the Tandon School, estimates political-ad...

The brightest minds in cybersecurity connect at RSA Conference. We are pleased to announce Preston Moore and  Mel Savich will participate in the RSACSecurity Scholar Program at RSAC 2019. As scholars, our students will network with peers and industry professionals, take advantage of the opportunity to share current areas of expertise with attendees, and listen...

Today, Third Way announced that Judi Germano, Distinguished Fellow at the NYU Center for Cybersecurity and Adjunct Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, will serve on its Cyber Enforcement Initiative Advisory Board. Germano will join a host of cybersecurity experts from both the public and private sector to provide guidance for the new...

… “Some of the biggest consumers of cybersecurity in the world are sitting right here in New York City: the large banks, the financial corporations and these days even the media corporations need cybersecurity,” said Nasir Memon, a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and associate dean for...

With security threats on the rise for medical devices, NYU [Tandon School of Engineering] hosted a gathering of researchers exploring novel solutions tailored for the sector. … With the microfluidics segment, driven by healthcare applications, projected to hit $4 billion by 2020, the need for defense measures is growing more acute. “The attack surface is...

Facebook is giving more details about who is spending the most money on political ads on its platform, and the leader this election cycle is … Facebook. Facebook calculated its political ad spending to be $12 million, for ads on the social network and Instagram. ..As a report just released by New York University’s Tandon...