Prasant Adhikari, a Ph.D. student at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, spent his summer in a rather unusual way. He put together and helped to run an online modular instruction program in cybersecurity for undergraduates in Nepal. The program, dubbed Gajabaar after the horizontal wooden bar that secures doors in traditional Nepali houses, offered...
Author: Lois Anne DeLong (Lois Anne DeLong)
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CyberSTRIKE Exercise Shows Off NYC Resilience
The annual Cyber Simulated Threat Response and Incident Knowledge Exercise, or Cyber STRIKE, conducted in conjunction with New York City Cyber Command, took on a slightly different twist this year. The training exercise, completed by a team of Cyber Fellows from the NYU Center for Cybersecurity, used a city-run cyber range to test their ability...
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Whitepaper Underscores Uptane’s Role in Securing Automobiles
Airbiquity, a company that designs and develops over-the-air delivery systems for vehicles, recently released a white paper on the importance of securing such systems. The focal point of the document is how its OTAmatic™ update product, working with Uptane, an open source, compromise-resilient update framework for cars, can provide this security. The document establishes why...
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Greenstadt and McCoy Twice-Honored for Study of Intimate Partner Surveillance Strategies
A paper co-authored by Dr. Damon McCoy and Dr. Rachel Greenstadt of NYU Tandon’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Center for Cybersecurity, recently collected two different honors at the USENIX Security Conference. Titled, “The Tools and Tactics Used in Intimate Partner Surveillance: An Analysis of Online Infidelity Forums,” the paper won both a...
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Dvorkin weighs in on power company performance after Isaias
Hurricane Isaias took its toll on the greater NYC area, leaving about a million customers without power. While acts of nature may be unavoidable, the real source of frustration to those left in the dark was the inaction and lack of communication from their respective power companies. Yury Dvorkin, an assistant professor of electrical and...
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Greenstadt Featured in Premiere of RIT Security Podcast
NYU Tandon Associate Professor Rachel Greenstadt was the inaugural guest on a new podcast series from the Global Cybersecurity Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Posted on August 6 on Buzzsprout.com, the 40-minute interview covered how she got started in the area of cybersecurity, and how she has used machine learning to identify privacy...
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A Busy Summer for Zhu: Tandon ECE Professor Releases Three Next Books; Leads Robotics Seminar
Springer Publishing recently released three new book titles with one thing in common: all were co-authored or co-edited by NYU Tandon Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Quanyan Zhu. The titles include two dealing with the application of game theoretic approaches to cybersecurity, and to resilient interdependent network analysis and design, and a third...
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Tandon EEs Document the Risks of Incorporating DNNs into Autonomous Systems
The integration of deep neural networks (DNNs) have enabled cars and robots to use input from sensors to function without any human intervention. Yet, DNNs are vulnerable to hacking, which makes their use in autonomous systems risky. A team of researchers from NYU Tandon’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department, including CCS faculty member Dr. Siddharth...
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Two NYU Tandon Teams Place in 2020 HACK@DAC
Two teams from NYU Tandon captured second and third place honors in the 2020 HACK@DAC competition, an annual hardware security competition held in tandem with the Design Automation Conference. The team of Yiyang Xu, Shanling Li and Animesh Basak Chowdhury took second place, while Juan Villegas, Shivam Gupta, and Matthew Lee took third place. The...
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Chips vs. Strip: NYU team Explains Why U.S. Credit Card Fraud Persists
While the introduction of computer chips in bank and credit cards has greatly reduced the risk of fraud in other parts of the world, it is still alive and well in the U.S.A. in part due to slow adoption of this technology by banks and merchants. But, even cards with chips are vulnerable if their...