Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, assistant professor at NYU Tandon and one of the researcher on this study, told me in an email that they’ve been working on techniques to automatically put bugs into programs for the past few years as a way to test and evaluate different bug-finding systems. Once they had a way to fill a...
Author: Emerald Knox (Emerald Knox)
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Twenty-Two Organizations From AI, Automotive, Blockchain, Cloud and More Join The Linux Foundation and Invest in Open Source Technology
NYU Tandon School of Engineering empowers people to use science and technology as tools to build a better society. SDNLAB is a leading platform …
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High School Women Train in Cybersecurity at NYU School of Engineering
Recently, a group of high school women spent three weeks as participants in the Computer Science for Cyber Security (CS4CS) program, picking up fundamentals at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Nearly 50 students attended classes at the downtown campus of the university, where they learned about programming, computer architecture, careers in computer science and...
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A Doozy of a Week for Industry Bosses
Article cites research by Damon McCoy, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. President Trump is now officially the biggest political advertiser on Facebook, according to a group of New York University [Tandon School of Engineering] researchers. My colleague Sheera Frenkel reported that the president and his political action...
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Now Transparent: Political Advertising on Facebook, Instagram
The Online Political Ads Transparency Project was conceived by Computer Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Damon McCoy to build easy-to-use tools to collect, archive, and analyze political advertising data. Although Facebook became the first major social media company to launch a searchable archive of political advertising, for both Facebook and Instagram, in May 2018, McCoy...
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How The Update Framework Improves Software Distribution Security
In recent years that there been multiple cyber-attacks that compromised a software developer’s network to enable the delivery of malware inside of software updates. That’s a situation that Justin Cappos, founder of The Update Framework (TUF) open-source project, has been working hard to help solve.
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The Biggest Spender of Political Ads on Facebook? President Trump
…Damon McCoy, who conducted the study with two fellow researchers, Laura Edelson and Shikhar Sakhuja, said they were not able to tally the total spending for Republicans and Democrats because their analysis was ongoing, though they planned to release those figures in the future.
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Justin Cappos on Why Cars Are Not Like Computers When It Comes to Cybersecurity
Justin Cappos is a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at New York University [Tandon School of Engineering], where his research addresses problems in security, systems, software update systems, and virtualization. His research philosophy focuses on solving real world security problems in practice, with software such as Docker, git, Python, and most Linux...
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Interdisciplinary Cyber Security Education
Interdisciplinary Cyber Security Education by Randal Milch and Nasir Memon NIST’s National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) is a crucial step toward remedying the Nation’s undeniable shortage of “people with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the tasks required for cybersecurity work.” Such a workforce will include “technical and nontechnical roles that are staffed with...
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Reaching greater depths with 3D printing
Syntactic foam is a strong and buoyant material commonly used in the manufacturing of submarines. Now, a team of researchers have developed a method of 3D printing components of syntactic foam that could take submarines to greater depths. Nikhil Gupta, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering,...