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...
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At CSAW 2019, virtuous hackers take on AI, 3D printing, deepfakes, and more
The world’s most comprehensive student-led cybersecurity contest, NYU Tandon’s annual CSAW games, on November 6-8, 2019 at NYU Tandon’s Brooklyn campus and at academic sites across three continents, is expanding to include new challenges that address vulnerabilities in artificial intelligence (AI) systems, microchip theft, and more. “Events like HackML and the Logic Locking Conquest are...
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What We’re Doing to Fight the Scourge of Cyber Stalking
Damon McCoy, a professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon, is involved in this project. It’s a sad fact of life that technology can be used to stalk, harass and harm people’s partners, acquaintances and even strangers. … Because of the seriousness of the problem, at Symantec we set out to how to...