Category: CCS News

… Bulky and heavy lead-acid batteries are still the norm in most cars and trucks. These hefty batteries, which consume over 80% of global lead production, take up space in vehicles and — because of their weight — have a deleterious effect on fuel efficiency. … Researchers, supported by a grant from the National Academies...

… Researchers at NYU Tandon propose a way to protect digital images and videos from misleading manipulation with an authenticating watermark. … “Unlike previously used watermarking techniques, these AI-learned artifacts can reveal not only the existence of photo manipulations, but also their character,” said Paweł Korus, a research assistant professor in the Department of Computer...

… Designs for entire parts are stored as single computer files on IT systems, so, like any other connected entity, manufacturers using 3D printing are vulnerable to compromise … Speaking to The Chemical Engineer, cybersecurity experts and materials engineers at New York’s Tandon School of Engineering said malicious action could take two forms. One is...

This project is focused on improving the transparency of online political advertising. Our goals are to build tools to collect and archive political advertising data. We will make publically available our data collection tools and raw data collected to enable analysis of online political advertising by anyone interested. Facebook political advertising varied widely from state...

… There are a number of ideas floating around as to how to best combat the spread of fake imagery, but new research from New York University computer scientists Pawel Korus and Nasir Memon suggests the process has to start at the point of capture, through the use of AI-powered watermarking embedded into cameras and...

Facebook has rolled out two key tools to increase transparency in response to Russian influence operations and the Cambridge Analytica data breach. … Damon McCoy was among the first researchers to use early versions of both tools. His team at New York University began scraping the ad archive, which initially included only political ads, in...

The NYU team demonstrates that you could adapt the signal processors inside—whether it’s a fancy DSLR or a regular smartphone camera—so they essentially place watermarks in each photo’s code. … “People are still not thinking about security—you have to go close to the source where the image is captured,” says Nasir Memon, one of the...

ONE OF THE most difficult things about detecting manipulated photos, or “deepfakes,” is that digital photo files aren’t coded to be tamper-evident. But researchers from New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering are starting to develop strategies that make it easier to tell if a photo has been altered, opening up a potential new front...

HERE Technologies … has joined the Uptane Alliance … a non-profit consortium of automotive companies, security researchers from academia, and government agencies working to standardize Uptane open-source software for the security of over-the-air software updates for vehicles and other edge devices and infrastructure. “The automotive industry has realized that OTA updates are necessary for safety,...

Damon McCoy, professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon and Ph.D. student Periwinkle Doerfler contributed to the research cited in this article. Recent research from Google reveals that users can enhance their online security by adding a recovery phone number to their respective accounts. Google worked in tandem with New York University and...