“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...
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The New Arms Race: Deep Fakes and Their Impact on Information
… Three years ago, DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, created a Media Forensic Program or MediFor to develop technological tools to automatically detect what is real and what is not real in deep fakes. … Nasir Memon, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering also leads...
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How Companies Are Tackling a Lack of Cybersecurity Experts
New York Times Dan Guido, an NYU Tandon alum, was a Hacker in Residence and an adjunct faculty member at NYU Tandon. Most people can’t possibly know enough to protect themselves technologically, says Dan Guido, the chief executive of the cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits. As a New York University faculty member, he helped found...
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Ad Tool Facebook Built to Fight Disinformation Doesn’t Work as Advertised
New York Times, July 25, 2019 Laura Edelson is a doctoral student in the department of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon. Faced with a rising backlash over the spread of disinformation in the aftermath of the 2016 elections, Facebook last year came up with a seemingly straightforward solution: It created an online library...
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Top OTA Expert Shows How State Actors Hack into Your Car and What Happens Next: ‘People Will Die’
The Drive, July 23, 2019 … Real hackers don’t hack into your car. For hacking at scale, real hackers hack the server your car gets the OTA (over-the-air) update from, and once they are in that server, “they can get any update they want into any of your connected cars,” Professor Justin Cappos told a...
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Follow-Up: Can AI Help Restore Our Faith in Photography?
Pro Photo Daily, July 31, 2019 Cites research by Nasir Memon, professor, and Pawel Korus, research assistant professor, in the department of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon. It’s a deepfake world we’re living in. Can we get out? Researchers at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering recently published a study — titled...
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The simple way Apple and Google let domestic abusers stalk victims
After years of neglect, the antivirus industry has finally begun to recognize stalkerware’s danger and flag the apps as malicious. … But antivirus alone may not be enough, one group of researchers at Cornell Tech and NYU warned me. … The researchers documented the prevalence of those tracking apps in a study last year, based...
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Can AI Save the Internet from Fake News?
Research discussed in this article was led by Nasir Memon, professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon. … Researchers at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering have proposed implanting a type of digital watermark using a neural network that can spot manipulated photos and videos. The idea is to embed the system...
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Data Privacy And Consumer Protection (Audio)
Consumer data is incredibly valuable. Businesses are using more sophisticated methods to secretly gather that data and increase their profits. How much do they know about us, and what is being done to protect consumer information in New York and Connecticut? Our guests: … Justin Cappos, Ph.D., associate professor, computer science, NYU Tandon School of...
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NYU Abu Dhabi Chip Processes Encrypted Data
Michail Maniatakos is a global network assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon. Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) have designed a co-processor that relies on partially homomorphic encrypted (PHE) execution, enabling it to perform computations directly on encrypted data. … The project is led by NYUAD assistant professor...