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Caution: AI Ahead
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Caution: AI Ahead

In addition to their own research explorations of the uses and misuses of artificial intelligence strategies, CCS faculty and staff often serve as informed commentators on issues that continue to emerge with the deployment of these technologies. Between late 2025 and the first half of 2026, CCS researchers were asked to weigh in on a...

Speeding up the Efficiency of Privacy-Preserving Chips
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Speeding up the Efficiency of Privacy-Preserving Chips

Figure showcases data from one participant in the 14-day pilot study with 27 NYU students that demonstrated the accuracy of the RouterSense technique. A research team from NYU Tandon has found a better way to monitor human health, one that doesn’t require invasive wearables or rely on inherently subjective self-reporting. Called RouterSense, the system is...

Preserving the Letter and the Context of the Law Through TAF 
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Preserving the Letter and the Context of the Law Through TAF 

State laws do more than just delineate regulations for a specific geographic location. They also hold the history of the society that created those laws. As such there is a compelling reason to ensure that these documents are never tampered with, a scenario that has become increasingly possible as more jurisdictions adopt digital law platforms. ...

EVIDENCE FROM CCS RESEARCH CENTER IMPACTS LANDMARK RULING: META FAILED TO PROTECT KIDS ONLINE 
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EVIDENCE FROM CCS RESEARCH CENTER IMPACTS LANDMARK RULING: META FAILED TO PROTECT KIDS ONLINE 

Juries in two separate trials have concluded that Meta has fallen short in their promise to protect kids online, with guilty verdicts issued in both New Mexico and Los Angeles this spring. And, In the case of the New Mexico trial, the CCS-affiliated Cybersafety Research Center and CCS Co-director Damon McCoy provided critical research-based evidence...

Germano Named New Co-director of CCS
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Germano Named New Co-director of CCS

Judith Germano, a Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security and an Adjunct Professor of Law at both the NYU School of Law and the NYU Stern School of Business, has taken over the reins as co-director of NYU’s Center for Cybersecurity. Serving alongside Professor Damon McCoy of the Department of Computer...

Generous Gift from Craig Newmark Philanthropies Funds First Cyber Clinic at NYU’s Center for Cybersecurity
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Generous Gift from Craig Newmark Philanthropies Funds First Cyber Clinic at NYU’s Center for Cybersecurity

While community health clinics, shelters, legal aid services, K-12 schools and other nonprofits increasingly find themselves on the front lines of cybercrime, they lack adequate resources to defend themselves from these threats. A new gift to New York University from Craig Newmark Philanthropies, a charitable organization founded by the creator of Craig’s List, seeks to...

Pearce and Tan Land Prestigious Research Awards
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Pearce and Tan Land Prestigious Research Awards

Two former research assistant professors at Tandon, Dr. Hammond Pearce and Dr. Benjamin Tan were recently awarded major corporate recognition. Pearce, now a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, has been awarded funds by Google for his project exploring the discovery and repair of critical flaws in the design...

Karri Inducted into IEEE HOST Hall of Fame
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Karri Inducted into IEEE HOST Hall of Fame

Professor Ramesh Karri, chair of NYU Tandon’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE), has been named to the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) Hall of Fame. The honor recognizes Karri’s broad impact on the field of hardware security. In announcing the award, Jim Plusquellic, a professor of Electrical and Computer...

Kicking Hitchhiking Stalkers Off GPS 
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Kicking Hitchhiking Stalkers Off GPS 

Stalking has become a major issue in the U.S., with one 2024 study noting that some 13.5 million people are stalked each year and that about one in three women and one in six men will experience stalking at some point in their lifetime (See the report from the Domestic Violence Services Network, Inc.). Unfortunately,...

Software Supply Chain Framework in-toto Graduates from CNCF
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Software Supply Chain Framework in-toto Graduates from CNCF

In April, 2025, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF), announced the graduation of in-toto, a ground-breaking software supply chain security framework developed at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Achieving graduation status means in-toto has undergone rigorous review by the CNCF that included publishing end-user case studies and enhancing governance and onboarding practices, and has...