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… 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...

Damon McCoy, professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon and Ph.D. student Periwinkle Doerfler contributed to the research cited in the this article. … The reading in question being a posting on the Google security blog by researchers Kurt Thomas and Angelika Moscicki. They looked at research conducted by Google in association with...

Following on the heels of DockerCon SF, the team is packing their bags and heading to Barcelona for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU from May 20- 23. … KubeCon will also provide a great opportunity to learn from industry experts and hear from those working with Kubernetes for their production applications: Intro: TUF / Notary –...

Article cites research by Damon McCoy, assistant professor of computer science and engineering and Laura Edelson, a doctoral student, at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. President Trump’s re-election campaign has spent far more than any single Democratic presidential candidate on Facebook advertising, reprising a strategy that was central to his 2016 victory.

On May 14, Youth INC hosted hundreds of business executives at its annual State of the Market conference, “bringing together financial, business, and political luminaries to discuss pressing topics that impact the investment landscape – all to support Youth INC.” CCS Co-Chair Randy Milch participated in the day’s events as a part of the Cyber...