Software can also identify pimps. Damon McCoy of New York University has developed a program that has helped police unearth five big suspected prostitution rings in California and Texas…
Author: Emerald Knox (Emerald Knox)
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Worries grow over privacy, security & tech: NYU Cyber Security Expert Justin Cappos
Click here to listen to Professor Cappos’ Podcast.
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New York University Scientists Trace Cybercrime Banking Networks and Win Best Research Paper Award
The authors, Dr. Damon McCoy and Hongwei Tian of New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering and D. Sean West and Stephen M. Gaffigan of SMGPA found that their research program wasn’t as simple as shooting tracers in the cloud, as the corrupt merchants quickly responded with evasive action.
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Finally, an inexpensive vibration sensor that signals blade problems
A cleverly simple vibration sensor made of a loop of thin fiber-optic cable and a fixed wavelength laser promises to take cost out of turbine-blade maintenance by letting owners spot problems as they occur. The device, already with two patents, won $150,000 for further development in New York’s PowerBridge competition. “This will let us form...
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Prevalence of Confusing Code in Software Projects
Dan Gopstein , Hongwei Zhou , Phyllis Frankl and Justin Cappos Prior work has shown that extremely small code patterns, such as the conditional operator and implicit type conversion, can cause considerable misunderstanding in programmers. Until now, the real world impact of these patterns ś known as ‘atoms of confusion’ ś was only speculative. This work uses a corpus of 14...
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NYU and NY Cyber Command team up to offer cheap cybersecurity education and training
Earlier this year NYU Tandon School of Engineering and New York’s Cyber Command (NYC3) joined forces to announce one of the country’s most affordable Cybersecurity Master’s Degree in the form of its NY Cyber Fellows program. The program was developed to answer Mayor Bill de Blasio’s New York Works initiative to add 10,000 cybersecurity experts...
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That cheap beach vacation rental on Craigslist could be a scam
according to a 2016 study from New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering.
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Inside New York City Cyber Command
A government agency most people know nothing about that’s leading America’s biggest city into the future.
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When Studying Doxing Gets You Doxed
Doxing is a particular form of this harassment in which a victim’s private information is publicly released with the intent of exacting revenge, seeking justice or intimidating the individual. … Unfortunately, doxing can happen to anyone. It even happened to me; following the release of our study, my colleagues and I experienced doxing firsthand. Our...
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Ransomware payments, blockchain and cryptoexchanges
The murky ecosystem of ransomware payments comes into focus in new research led by Damon McCoy, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.