Author: Emerald Knox (Emerald Knox)

Earlier this week, Capital One Financial Corp. announced a breach impacting the personal information of approximately 100 million people in the United States and 6 million in Canada. … Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, a professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, pointed out that companies are often attempting to strike a balance between a level...

“In simulations using publicly available information about charging station usage in Manhattan and the structure of the island’s power grid, our research team found that a fleet of just roughly 1,000 simultaneously charging electric vehicles would be adequate for mounting an attack whose effects could rival the blackout that affected the city’s West Side last...

… Three years ago, DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, created a Media Forensic Program or MediFor to develop technological tools to automatically detect what is real and what is not real in deep fakes. … Nasir Memon, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering also leads...

New York Times Dan Guido, an NYU Tandon alum, was a Hacker in Residence and an adjunct faculty member at NYU Tandon. Most people can’t possibly know enough to protect themselves technologically, says Dan Guido, the chief executive of the cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits. As a New York University faculty member, he helped found...

New York Times, July 25, 2019 Laura Edelson is a doctoral student in the department of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon. Faced with a rising backlash over the spread of disinformation in the aftermath of the 2016 elections, Facebook last year came up with a seemingly straightforward solution: It created an online library...

The Drive, July 23, 2019 … Real hackers don’t hack into your car. For hacking at scale, real hackers hack the server your car gets the OTA (over-the-air) update from, and once they are in that server, “they can get any update they want into any of your connected cars,” Professor Justin Cappos told a...

Pro Photo Daily, July 31, 2019 Cites research by Nasir Memon, professor, and Pawel Korus, research assistant professor, in the department of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon. It’s a deepfake world we’re living in. Can we get out? Researchers at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering recently published a study — titled...

After years of neglect, the antivirus industry has finally begun to recognize stalkerware’s danger and flag the apps as malicious. … But antivirus alone may not be enough, one group of researchers at Cornell Tech and NYU warned me. … The researchers documented the prevalence of those tracking apps in a study last year, based...

Research discussed in this article was led by Nasir Memon, professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon. … Researchers at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering have proposed implanting a type of digital watermark using a neural network that can spot manipulated photos and videos. The idea is to embed the system...

Consumer data is incredibly valuable. Businesses are using more sophisticated methods to secretly gather that data and increase their profits. How much do they know about us, and what is being done to protect consumer information in New York and Connecticut? Our guests: … Justin Cappos, Ph.D., associate professor, computer science, NYU Tandon School of...