For the second time this year Professor Nikhil Gupta of the NYU Tandon Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering has been named a Fellow of a distinguished organization in materials science. The American Society for Composites honored Gupta on September 20 at its Annual Meeting in Tucson, Arizona. Earlier in the year he was honored as a Fellow of ASM International. In...
On September 7, the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced a new five-year partnership to advance the work of the NYU Center for Cybersecurity. A primary goal of the partnership is to expand the concept of resiliency in CCS research and educational offerings. According to an announcement published...
After two years as a virtual event, the Annual CSAW Cybersecurity Games and Conference will be hosting “in-person” competitions at three of its five international sites from November 10-12. In addition to the Brooklyn campus of NYU Tandon, where CSAW began 19 years ago, the NYU campus in Abu Dhabi, headquarters for Middle East/North Africa...
For the second year, the Uptane community invited OEMs and suppliers to a free virtual industry conference. The 2022 online gathering on October 13 focused on past achievements, present challenges, and future directions for the secure software update framework for vehicles, which is a project of the Secure Systems Laboratory at NYU Tandon. The conference,...
What does it take to win a hardware security competition? The top three winners from the HACK@DAC competition, including two Ph.D. candidates from NYU’s Center for Cybersecurity, provided some insights on the topic in a recent interview for the podcast “What That Means with Camille,” part of Intel’s Cyber Security Inside series. Baleegh Ahmad and...
Cybersecurity for Democracy researchers Dr. Damon McCoy and Dr. Laura Edelson recently served as part of a team of experts that assisted in publishing the Facebook Papers. Compiled and released by Gizmodo, the papers released by whistleblower Frances Haugen last November, are now accessible at https://gizmodo.com/facebook-papers-how-to-read-1848702919. The independent advisory team was employed because Gizmodo recognized...
U.S. power systems represent an increasingly desirable target for cyber hackers. An IBM report, cited in The New York Times last May, noted that “the energy industry was the third most targeted sector for such attacks in 2020, behind only finance and manufacturing.” To address this issue, the U.S. Department of Energy announced on April...
In the battle against disinformation, fact checkers are the first line of defense. Yet, a recent study reveals these individual face some serious barriers in completing their tasks. The principal problem is the procedures that govern how their job have not kept pace with the volume of information. As a result, “the rate at which...
Dr. Nikhil Gupta, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was recently named a Fellow of ASM International. In doing so the global organization of more than 20,000 members recognizes Gupta for making “significant contributions in the field of materials science and engineering.” Considered one of the highest honors in the materials engineering field, Gupta was...
The in-toto project was recently promoted to the incubator of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The announcement was made in a press release issued March 10, 2022. The CNCF is a Linux Foundation program that supports development of promising new open source technologies. in-toto was developed in the Secure Systems Laboratory at NYU’s Tandon School...