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...
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CCS Faculty and Students are a Visible Presence at IEEE’s Virtual S&P Conference
The Center for Cybersecurity was well represented at the 2020 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Conference, one of the premier annual cybersecurity gatherings. Five presentations, reflecting the work of seven faculty and students from NYU Tandon, reflect the diversity of research at CCS, with topics ranging from why privacy-enhancing proxies shouldn’t be excluded from...
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NYU Abu Dhabi Researchers Reveals the “Dragonfly Handshake” is Not a Secure Grip
The “dragonfly handshake”—a nickname for a wi-fi security protocol thought to provide strong protection from hacking—may not be as firm as previously thought. Two security researchers, Mathy Vanhoef of NYU Abu Dhabi and Eyal Ronen of Tel Aviv University, have found that the WPA-3 protocol can indeed by breached, despite claims that its method of...
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CCS Co-Chair Karri Named an IEEE Fellow
Ramesh Karri, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at NYU Tandon, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical professional association. Honored for his contributions and leadership in trustworthy electronic hardware, Karri is co-founder and co-chair of the NYU Center for Cybersecurity, and faculty leader...
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The TUF Project Graduates Cloud Native Computing Foundation
The Update Framework (TUF), an open-source technology that secures software update systems, is the first specification and first security-focused project to graduate from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Led by CCS faculty member Justin Cappos, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, TUF is the first project born out...
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Trump campaign launches anti-impeachment blitz on Facebook, targeting four minority congresswomen
The Washington Post, September 27, 2019 (by subscription) Laura Edelson is a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon. President Trump’s reelection campaign responded to the opening of a formal impeachment inquiry in Congress by launching a massive Facebook ad blitz, spending as much as $1.4 million on thousands...
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NYU Tandon Gets Grant to Teach Cybersecurity in 3D Printing
3DPrint.com, September 30, 2019 … Last July, Gupta, along with colleague Ramesh Karri, professor of electrical and computer engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, received a new three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) award to develop a pedagogical program for cybersecurity in 3D printing that will include a variety of educational activities and resources around...