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...
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Armed and Dangerous: Does Technology Make for Better Policing?
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...
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How the Trump Campaign Used Facebook Ads to Amplify His ‘Invasion’ Claim
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 —...
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Capital One Breach: Whose Liability Is It Anyway?
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...
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Electric car charging stations may be portals for power grid cyberattacks
“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...