On October 10, 2022, websites at a number of airports around the U.S. simultaneously suffered denial-of-service attacks at the hands of the Russian “hacktivist” group Killnet. Major airports, such as LaGuardia, Orlando International, LAX, O’Hare and Midway, and Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson, saw their websites go down, though operations were not directly impacted. In an interview broadcast...
Author: Lois Anne DeLong (Lois Anne DeLong)
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Using AI-assisted code may not be risky business
Maybe AI is A-OK after all? A year after his initial study raised serious concerns about potentially buggy code being written by AI-assisted programs, Dr. Brendan Dolan-Gavitt now reports the risk differential between source code written by human programmers and code written with the help of large language models (LLMs) may not be “statistically significant.” Dolan-Gavitt,...
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Tandon Professor Gupta Named ASC Fellow
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...
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CCS to Benefit from New NYU Tandon/DTTC Partnership
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...
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Live from Brooklyn, Abu Dhabi, and Grenoble: CSAW’22
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...
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Uptane Hosts Virtual Conference
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,...
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Hacking Competition Winners Share Tips on Teamwork and Strategy
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...
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McCoy and Edelson aid “responsible disclosure” of Facebook papers
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...
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TRAPS project to secure power systems receives DOE grant
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...
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Identifying Barriers to Accurate Fact-Checking
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...