Author: Emerald Knox (Emerald Knox)

Over just two weeks in September, a limited-liability company calling itself News for Democracy spent almost $400,000 on more than 16 million impressions for a network of 14 Facebook pages that hadn’t existed until August. This represented the second-largest political ad buy on Facebook for the period … according to an analysis by a team...

… Computer scientists at the New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering analyzed more than 884,000 recent political ads on the three social media sites. They found that Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again political action committee had the largest number of ads of any candidate while a Republican group called the...

Ever since President Trump’s win in 2016–which many attribute, in part, to his vast online advertising program–many have demanded more transparency for the ads that can be micro-targeted at voters on platforms like Facebook and Google. … A team of data scientists at NYU Tandon, led by professor Damon McCoy, have been crunching all the...

On October 16, 2018, the Center for Cybersecurity hosted the conference Women Leaders in Cybersecurity: At the Intersection of Technology, Privacy, and Security. The event brought together leading women in cybersecurity to address some of the most pressing issues in the field today. It featured topics including data privacy and security, cyber defense, government relations, and...

Fei Chen is no stranger to breaking down walls. Since she joined associate professor Nikhil Gupta’s Composite Materials and Mechanics Laboratory (CMML)four years ago as a research student, the NYU Tandon doctoral candidate has been developing pioneering research into 3D printing and cybersecurity. In 2019, Chen will be the first female Ph.D. student to graduate from...

The tech world is reeling from a Bloomberg report that China installed surveillance microchips into tech giants’ hardware. Siddharth Garg, hardware cybersecurity expert, explains the differences between hardware and software attacks and the risks.

Election security is a significant concern going into the midterms, just two years after apparent Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Justin Cappos, Professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering joins us to discuss just how safe America’s polls are.

Founder of New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering’s cybersecurity program and Associate Dean for Online Learning Professor Nasir Memon has been in the thick of cybersecurity education for the last 20 years. He sees some compelling related challenges in executive-level cybersecurity education. “First, as the CISO function is relatively nascent, we saw a...

Hackers getting their hands on access tokens means they could essentially take over people’s accounts. Damon McCoy, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at New York University, explained to NBC News what cyber criminals might do with the stolen information. “Some examples of how a Facebook account might have been misused include adding/deleting friends,...

… A team at NYU Tandon School of Engineering has found a way to prove the provenance of a part by employing QR (Quick Response) codes in an innovative way for unique device identification. … Noted materials researcher Nikhil Gupta, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at NYU Tandon; Fei Chen, a doctoral student under...