Static binary code scanning tools are good at finding obvious vulnerabilities in code, says Damon McCoy, an assistant professor in the computer science and engineering department at New York University. McCoy, who has not analyzed Jarvis, says BlackBerry may have a bit of an edge given its experience with embedded systems. But it’s also possible...
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With More Tech Comes More Hacking Risk for Smart Cars
Automakers and suppliers are making progress in protecting vehicles from cyberattacks, but the car-hacking threat is still real and could get increasingly serious in the future when driverless vehicles begin talking to each other. … Justin Cappos, a computer science professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, said one of the more promising...
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Car Hacking Remains a Very Real Threat as Autos Become Ever More Loaded With Tech
Automakers and suppliers are making progress in protecting vehicles from cyber attacks, but the car-hacking threat is still real and could get increasingly serious in the future when driverless vehicles begin talking to each other. … Justin Cappos, a computer science professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, said one of the more...
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NYU Tandon offers affordable cybersecurity master’s degree with backing from NYC
With everything from Russian hackers to credit card fraud becoming very much a 21st century problem, a door of opportunity has just opened for New York City students hoping to get into one of the hottest fields on the planet. New York University Tandon School of Engineering in Downtown Brooklyn is partnering with the city...
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NYU Tandon and NYC Cyber command launch a new cybersecurity Master’s Program
New York City is now home to a cybersecurity master’s degree program, launched as a joint effort between New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering and New York City Cyber Command. This program, dubbed the New York Cyber Fellows, is an online initiative created in conjunction with leading employers within New York City, aiming...
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NYU Launches Cybersecurity Master's Program to Help Fill Skills Gap
Cybersecurity threats are a serious issue, but the field is lacking experts who can prevent or handle such hacks. … One estimate predicts that the world will see a global shortage of 1.8 million cybersecurity experts by 2022.To help fill this skills gap, New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering has launched the New York...
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The Worst Healthcare Cybersecurity Breaches of 2017
In 2017, a spate of high-profile attacks brought the healthcare industry’s need to strengthen its cybersecurity into sharp focus. Ransomware, like WannaCry and NotPetya, has wreaked havoc in small hospitals and biopharma giants alike, and the vulnerabilities appear widespread and acute, experts said. … “If you were hit by WannaCry, you were really doing something...
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2018: The Year Of Blockchain For Ad Industry?
Blockchain technology emerged in the advertising industry as a sort of phenomenon in 2017. Companies like IBM and Microsoft are betting big on the technology that seems to be pumping new life into some of the more established players and retailers, such as Oracle and Walmart. .. In July 2017, Google researchers reported that Chainalysis,...
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The Cyber and Critical Infrastructures Nexus: Interdependencies, Dependencies and Their Impacts on Public Services
Rae Zimmerman Critical infrastructures (CI) provide fundamental services in ways that are essential to the social and economic fabric of society. These infrastructures are apparently becoming increasingly interconnected with one another (Saidi et al. 2018: 1), and these interconnections appear in the form of interdependencies and dependencies. Information technologies or information and communications technologies (ICT)...
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A Hybrid Stochastic Game for Secure Control of Cyber-Physical Systems
Fei Miao, Quanyan Zhu, Miroslav Pajic and George J. Pappas In this paper, we establish a zero-sum, hybrid state stochastic game model for designing defense policies for cyber-physical systems against different types of attacks. With the increasingly integrated properties of cyber-physical systems (CPS) today, security is a challenge for critical infrastructures. Though resilient control and...