Author: Lois Anne DeLong (Lois Anne DeLong)

The SolarWinds attack, which was discovered in early December 2020, was frightening on several levels. In addition to the sensitivity of the data released, and the U.S. government agencies targeted, the malware was introduced through a practice deemed essential to cyber hygiene: a software update. As NYU associate professor of computer science and engineering Justin...

Dr. Santiago Torres-Arias, a 2020 Ph.D. graduate from Tandon’s Computer Science and Engineering program and an active researcher in the Center for Cybersecurity was one of seven current or recent Latinx Ph.D.s chosen for a round-up article entitled “Graduates Sin Limite.” Torres-Arias, who worked with his advisor, Dr. Justin Cappos in the Secure Systems Laboratory...

In theory, Facebook’s ban on political advertising right before the election should have shielded voters from disinformation or political ads that were less than honest. But the ban contained a loophole. Any existing political coverage that had already been reviewed and approved was not removed. So, would-be influencers just made sure their ads were running...

In a special report published December 8, 2020, WalletHub presented results of a survey entitled “2020’s States Most Vulnerable to Identity Theft & Fraud.” As part of the report, they questioned a number of cybersecurity experts, including NYU Tandon associate professor of computer science and engineering Justin Cappos, who offered advice on what individuals can...

NYU Tandon Ph.D. candidate Laura Edelson has spent much of the past few years pulling back the curtain on political advertising through her work with the Online Political Transparency Project at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.  Therefore, it is not surprising that, when WiscPolitics reported in a December 8, 2020 article that U.S. Senator...

In a classic case of “It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish,” Yahoo Finance named Zoom its “Company of the Year” for 2020. The year began for the company with a number of high profile incidents where meetings and classrooms were interrupted in what came to be called “Zoom Bombing.” But the company’s...

During the presidential election, both candidates aggressively pursued the Latinx vote, particularly in battleground states of Florida and Arizona. As the Wall Street Journal reported in an article published on November 20, though Biden won a bigger share of this increasingly significant voting block, both nationally and in the states, Trump’s TV ad spending did...