Khaled Baqer, Danny Yuxing Huang, Damon McCoy, and Nicholas Weaver In this paper, we present an empirical study of a recent spam campaign (a “stress test”) that resulted in a DoS attack on Bitcoin. The goal of our investigation being to understand the methods spammers used and impact on Bitcoin users.
Author: Emerald Knox (Emerald Knox)
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Secure and resilient distributed machine learning under adversarial environments
Rui Zhang and Quanyan Zhu Machine learning algorithms, such as support vector machines (SVMs), neutral networks, and decision trees (DTs) have been widely used in data processing for estimation and detection. They can be used to classify samples based on a model built from training data. However, under the assumption that training and testing samples...
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NYU students win award for solution to safeguard electronic voting machines
When electronic voting machines came into use in the early 1990s, they made voting cheaper, easier, and more accessible to the electorate, but few programmers gave thought to the issue of cybersecurity…New York University students Kevin Kirby, Anthony Masi, and Fernando Maymi took home first place in the challenge with their system, Votebook, which is...
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FACID: A trust-based collaborative decision framework for intrusion detection networks
Carol J. Fung and Quanyan Zhu Computer systems evolve to be more complex and vulnerable. Cyber attacks have also grown to be more sophisticated and harder to detect. Intrusion detection is the process of monitoring and identifying unauthorized system access or manipulation. It becomes increasingly difficult for a single intrusion detection system (IDS) to detect all...
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Is This Blockchain Voting System By NYU Devs the Solution to Russia Election Meddling?
New York University students Kevin Kirby, Anthony Masi, and Fernando Maymi [Masi and Maymi are cybersecurity graduate students at NYU Tandon School of Engineering] won first place in the contest with Votebook, a “secure, scalable and consistent with current voter behavior and expectations of privacy.”
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NYU Cybersecurity Students Devise a New Way to Safeguard Electronic Voting Systems
In September 2016 the internationally recognized computer protection firm Kaspersky Lab, in partnership with The Economist, mounted a challenge inviting teams from universities around the world to design a system for digital voting that addressed such issues as ensuring privacy and validating contested results. New York University students Kevin Kirby, Anthony Masi, and Fernando Maymi...
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Can Blockchain Technology Secure Digital Voting Systems?
The Economist‘s Cybersecurity Case Study Competition awarded the grand prize to New York University, second place was awarded to University of Maryland, College Park and Newcastle University received third place. … “I want to wish congratulations to New York University for their victory in the 2016 Cybersecurity Case Study Competition,” said U.S. Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY).
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Leading University Research Centers in the U.S. and India Announce Cybersecurity Collaboration
Following a highly successful international cooperation that attracted more than 15,000 students, faculty, professionals, and supporters to the world’s largest student-run cybersecurity games, the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur have signed a seven-year agreement to deepen their exchange in information security research and academics.
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IBM Watson Steps Into Real-World Cybersecurity
IBM has launched the Watson for Cyber Security beta program to encourage companies to include Watson in their current security environments. The problem with unstructured data is knowing when one piece of information is more valuable than another and which sources of information are more reliable. But the beauty of Watson is that ‘crucial nuggets...
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Online Banking Privacy Hack: Use 2 Browsers to Increase Your Security
Online shopping and banking is efficient and convenient, but it just takes one security breach for tons of personal information to get in the wrong hands. … Using a second browser dedicated exclusively to online shopping and banking can offer some added security from specific types of attacks, according to Justin Cappos, a computer security...