The eighth event in a series of open lectures on cybersecurity and privacy at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering will convene in Downtown Brooklyn on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, with an exploration of the hardware security challenges posed by interconnected devices and cloud computing. Convergence of IoT, Cloud, Security: A Perfect Storm...
Author: Emerald Knox (Emerald Knox)
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Secure 3D Printing: Reconstructing and Validating Solid Geometries using Toolpath Reverse Engineering
Nektarios Georgios Tsoutsos, Homer Gamil and Michail Maniatakos As 3D printing becomes more ubiquitous, traditional centralized process chains are transformed to a distributed manufacturing model, where each step of the process can be outsourced to different parties. Despite the countless benefits of this revolutionary technology, outsourcing parts of the process to potentially untrusted parties raises...
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Fox 5 Report: Selling Your Online Search History, featuring Prof. Justin Cappos (video)
Justin Cappos, Assistant Professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering comments on a new bill that the House and Senate passed that rolls back privacy protection rules put in place by President Obama: “Now when you browse the web you are going to be tracked by the person you are...
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Logic Locking for Secure Outsourced Chip Fabrication: A New Attack and Provably Secure Defense Mechanism
Mohamed El Massad, Jun Zhang, Siddharth Garg, and Mahesh V. Tripunitara Chip designers outsource chip fabrication to external foundries, but at the risk of IP theft. Logic locking, a promising solution to mitigate this threat, adds extra logic gates (key gates) and inputs (key bits) to the chip so that it functions correctly only when...
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The (Research) Stars Shine Bright in Texas
When Jeyavijayan (JV) Rajendran was a graduate student at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, it was not unusual to see him mentioned on the school website. Working with Professor Ramesh Karri of Electrical and Computer Engineering, he helped cement Tandon’s reputation at the forefront of hardware security … Now a tenure-track assistant professor at...
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Is Privacy Real? The CIA Is Jeopardizing America's Digital Security, Experts Warn
WikiLeaks released the latest cache of confidential C.I.A. documents Thursday as part of an ongoing ‘Vault 7’ operation, exposing the U.S. government of its hacking and digital espionage capabilities. … The agency may have left millions open to the exact attacks it said it was trying to prevent, regardless of its intentions, by not reporting...
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Demystifying advanced persistent threats for industrial control systems.
Keliris, Anastasis and Maniatakos, Michail. Cyberattacks are an emerging threat for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) that, given the tight coupling between the cyber and physical components, can have far-reaching implications. It is typical for contemporary ICS components to utilize Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware and software, rendering them prone to vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques that afflict IT systems (Figure...
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Will the Trump Administration Protect Hard-Won Progress with China on Cybersecurity? Featuring Robert Silvers
As Presidents Trump and Xi prepare for their first meeting next month at Mar-a-Lago, most early attention has centered on tension points involving Taiwan policy, the South China Sea, North Korea and trade. But another U.S.-China issue hangs in the balance: cybersecurity.
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Tandon Team Develops Software to Combat Child Exploitation
A team of engineers at NYU Tandon, in partnership with Griffeye — a digital intelligence technology company — is developing a new software that will help law enforcement combat the increasingly prevalent issue of child exploitation.
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3D Printing Has an Urgent Need for Cybersecurity
… According to a new paper, “Manufacturing and Security Challenges in 3D Printing”, written by researchers at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering … 3D printing carries cybersecurity vulnerabilities that can lead to potentially dangerous, undetectable defects as well as opening the door for counterfeit products. Nikhil Gupta, an associate professor of mechanical and...