Category: <span>CCS News</span>

CCS Co-Chair Randy Milch was featured in a video from Futurism on the war against hackers.

… Humans are notoriously bad at creating secure passwords. … we’ve fixed the problem, at least somewhat, by introducing a slew of new devices that rely on biometric authentication, whether in the form of fingerprints, voice recognition, or facial scanning. … Researchers at New York University [Tandon School of Engineering] and Michigan State University, however,...

This video includes an interview with Justin Cappos, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon. (starts at 0:57)  … Online shoppers are not just on their computers. New research shows 1 in 3 purchases were made on their smartphone. “Going to sites that are more reputable, especially those that tend to be more...

This video includes an interview with Justin Cappos, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon.  Cybersecurity expert and NYU professor Justin Cappos says the security breach that compromised the information of as many as 500 million guests shows that Marriott’s Starwood hotels simply did not care about customer security and privacy.

… Major ad platforms like Google, Facebook and Twitter each launched their own versions of transparency platforms, which detail online political spending — a $1.9 billion industry in 2018, according to a projection from Kip Cassino of the ad-tracking firm Borrell Associates. … “Simply put, all these ad networks weren’t designed to be transparent,” said...

BlackBerry, which has rebranded as a security company as its mobile handset business fades, purchased Cylance, the machine-learning based anti-malware company, for $1.4 billion dollars last week. … “It’s possible they [BlackBerry] could add machine learning-specific backdoors of the style we proposed last year that makes it ignore their own state-sponsored malware,’ Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, an...

Article features research by a team including Philip Bontrager, a Ph.D. student at the NYU Game Innovation Lab at NYU Tandon, and lab director Julian Togelius and Nasir Memon, professors in the department of computer science and engineering. “These experiments demonstrate the need for multi-factor authentication and should be a wake-up call for device manufacturers...

We are proud to announce that a team of four members from the Brown University Executive Master in Cybersecurity (EMCS) Class of 2019 won first place in the policy category at CSAW’18, the world’s largest student-led hacking and security competition. The New York University Tandon School of Engineering hosted the policy portion of CSAW in...

Tunisia has just joined the international Cyber ??Security Awareness Worldwide (CSAW) competition in 2018, and will host the regional competition at the Tunis Telecommunications College (Sup’Com). … The Cyber ??Security Awareness Worldwide (CSAW), first organized in 2003 by Professor Nasir Memon of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, and run by students, was...

For the first time in 15 years, the best Mexican cybersecurity students will compete in the final round of Cyber ??Security Awareness Worldwide (CSAW) at the Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City, from November 8 to 11, 2018. They will also participate simultaneously against hackers from different countries. CSAW was founded in 2003 by the New York...