Category: <span>CCS News</span>

NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s pioneering Cyber Fellows program opens the semester with a mission: Help fill the yawning talent gap. … C-suite executives from some of the most recognized and respected firms and government institutions on August 30 will welcome a new class of students to NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s pioneering graduate-level online...

NYU Tandon Newsroom, September 3, 2019 … Thanks to the opening of 370 Jay Street, the opportunities for synergy are about to expand greatly. With its array of new labs, classrooms, and collaborative spaces in what used to be the headquarters of the MTA, this newly minted space, dedicated to the cross-section of creativity and...

… “Right now, what Facebook requires from advertisers is virtually nothing,” said Laura Edelson, a researcher at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering who studies political advertising. “Until now, there’s been no vetting whatsoever. It’s been advertisers’ responsibility to make sure [their disclosure] was correct.” … That’s a big hindrance for researchers who track...

Nikhil Gupta is professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NYU Tandon. … Among other accomplishments, Gupta and a team including researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi pioneered a way to hide 3D versions of such identifying features as quick-response (QR) codes inside printed components. … Gupta and Ramesh Karri, professor of electrical and computer engineering...

Damon McCoy, a professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon collaborated in this research. … A new clinical model developed by Cornell Tech researchers aims to respond systematically and effectively to the growing array of digital threats against victims of intimate partner violence. … The authors are among the researchers from Cornell Tech,...

Utility Dive, August 15, 2019 The rise of electric vehicles may come with increased cybersecurity risks to the grid — multiple high-wattage charging stations could be used in tandem to launch an attack and potentially cause a blackout, according to a new analysis from New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. … “This simulation is...

Gabriel Nicholas, a joint fellow with CCS and the Information Law Institute, writes in the LA Review of Books about the competing perspectives of techno-optimism and techno-skepticism. As a jumping off point, he turns to Rick Smith’s The End of Killing: How Our Newest Technologies Can Solve Humanity’s Oldest Problem and Matt Stroud’s Thin Blue Lie: The...

Articles uses research provided by the Online Political Ads Transparency Project led by NYU Tandon doctoral student Laura Edelson. Some of President Trump’s re-election ads have repeated his inflammatory claims about an “invasion” on the southern border — language that is under scrutiny after the El Paso shooting. … Mr. Trump’s language on immigration —...

Earlier this week, Capital One Financial Corp. announced a breach impacting the personal information of approximately 100 million people in the United States and 6 million in Canada. … Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, a professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, pointed out that companies are often attempting to strike a balance between a level...

“In simulations using publicly available information about charging station usage in Manhattan and the structure of the island’s power grid, our research team found that a fleet of just roughly 1,000 simultaneously charging electric vehicles would be adequate for mounting an attack whose effects could rival the blackout that affected the city’s West Side last...