Category: <span>CCS News</span>

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...

… 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...

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...

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...