Beginning on Thursday, June 4, the Center for Cybersecurity will be holding a series of “conversations” about important current issues in the field. Presentations will cover topics ranging from how to measure the security and privacy of systems, to how to build resilience into those systems. Each conversation will be moderated by Dr. Edward Amoroso,...
Author: Lois Anne DeLong (Lois Anne DeLong)
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Cyber NYC I2F Accelerator Advances Five Fledgling Start-ups to Stage 2
Recognizing the critical need for new cybersecurity concerns, the New York City Economic Development Corporation, in cooperation with Columbia University, Cornell Tech, the City University of New York, and New York University launched Cyber NYC Inventors to Founders (I2F) in the Summer of 2019. I2F is an early stage startup accelerator and talent network for...
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Meet the “Creepware” Lurking in your Devices
A recent study has identified a new threat to consumers using cell phones or other personal devices—”creepware.” Defined as apps used primarily by non-experts to mount interpersonal attacks, these apps were not detectable by existing spyware detection techniques. That is, until a team of researchers that included Assistant Professor Damon McCoy of Tandon’s Computer Science...
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NYU Study Reveals Over-confident Attitudes Can Create Susceptible Phishing Targets
If you think you could never fall for a cyber scam or a phishing attack, you may actually be increasing the odds that you will be susceptible to this type of crime. A recent study conducted by a team of researchers from the NYU Department of Psychology and the NYU Tandon Department of Electrical and...
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Congratulations to the CCS 2020 Doctoral Graduates
The Center for Cybersecurity is proud to announce its Class of 2020 Ph.D. recipients. They are: Juntao Chen (ECE, advised by Associate Professor Quanyan Zhu) Mohamed El Massad (ECE, advised by Assistant Professor Siddharth Garg) Muhammad Junaid Farooq (ECE, advised by Associate Professor Quanyan Zhu) Kevin Gallagher (CSE, coadvised by Professor Nasir Memon and Brendan...
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Study finds “Backdoors” and other vulnerabilities in more than 12K Android Apps
How secure is your phone or tablet? Probably not as secure as you think. A recent study of more than 150,000 Android applications found some 12,700 contained hidden backdoor-like behavior, including secret access keys, master passwords, and secret commands. A team of academics from Europe and the U.S., including CCS faculty member Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, created...
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Responding to COVID 19, CCS Ph.D. Student Becomes the Voice of Cybersecurity for Nepal
Proving that CCS students are quick to recognize and respond to real-world problems, Samrat Acharya, an NYU Ph.D. student from Nepal is lending his professional expertise to help his home nation adapt to increased internet usage during the COVID 19 crisis. Acharya, a student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was concerned because...
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Torres-Arias receives 2020 Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award
Santiago Torres-Arias, who successfully defended for his doctoral degree in May 2020, has received the 2020 Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award from the NYU Tandon Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The award is given each year to PhD students in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering whose doctoral research shows the greatest promise....
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Phishing Fears Rise with COVID Concerns, according to CCS Index of Cyber Security
The increase of people working at home due to “stop the spread” initiatives at city and state levels could lead to a corresponding rise in phishing schemes, according to the April 2020 report of the Index of Cyber Security. The sentiment-based index, which uses direct polling of security practitioner experts around the world to chart...
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McCoy recognized for paper that has stood the “Test of Time”
As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California- San Diego, Damon McCoy served as part of a research team that was able to take control of a range of vehicle functions on a a pair of cars. The study results were published in a paper titled Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile, that...