Category: <span>CCS News</span>

A number of organizations, including ProPublica, have developed tools to let the public see exactly how Facebook users are being targeted by advertisers. Now, Facebook has quietly made changes to its site that stop those efforts. … Facebook has also developed another tool that it says will allow researchers to analyze political ads more easily....

Ahead of India’s general election, which will take place in the coming months, Google has followed the example of Facebook and Twitter in promising greater transparency about the people behind political advertising. According to a report, the company said it will provide details of advertisers as well as the money spent on such ads. …...

As more 3D printed products reach the markets so does the increased risk for counterfeit parts. Nikhil Gupta is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. He joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss a new security measure using three dimensional quick response codes.

When Brookhaven Lab hosted the recent Department of Energy CyberForce Competition, members of the intensive NYU Tandon CyberFellows program were there to go head to head with other aspiring cybersecurity professionals from around the country. Tasked with defending a simulated energy infrastructure network from attack, the Tandon team skillfully corrected vulnerabilities; stayed a step ahead...

Just like any technology linked to the internet, 3D printers can be hacked, and computer design files can be stolen. Nikhil Gupta, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, and his colleagues created a method of hiding 3D QR (Quick Response) tags in printed parts as a way to prove their legitimacy. The news was cited...

who recently joined the computer science and engineering faculty, is top researcher in trustworthy intelligent systems — autonomous computer networks whose integrity can be verified. Greenstadt, who earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT and Harvard, holds a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Fellowship; earned a PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies; and a...

‘We really need more security professionals— the very foundation of our society is being threatened,” says Nasir Memon, a professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. Memon is part of a multi-pronged effort at NYU to meet that need, with several online and on-site cybersecurity programs for newcomers as well as mid-career professionals,...

More and more people who commit violence against their intimate partners are using technology to make their victims’ lives worse. … News media, academic researchers, and victim advocates have long acknowledged the threat of spyware in domestic abuse situations. But our research [conducted by NYU Tandon faculty and students] brings to light the ease with...

With the worldwide market for 3D-printed parts now a $5 billion business…One of the major sectors vying to remain on the cutting edge of additive manufacturing (AM), as 3D printing is also known, is aerospace, and as the editors of the news organization 3DPrint.com wrote, “It would take a very long time to list all...

Researchers at New York University [Tandon School of Engineering] and Michigan State University have invented new artificial fingerprints, which they call DeepMasterPrints for hacking fingerprint sensor-enabled smartphones. According to a report by CNBC, the fake fingerprints, with the help of machine learning double as a ‘Masterkey’ to access one out of three smartphones which come...