Category: <span>CCS News</span>

American tech giant Intel has awarded NYU Abu Dhabi a three-year, $300,000 grant to help with research into new ways of securely testing and configuring computer chips by third-party companies, it was announced on Sunday. The research, being conducted by NYU Abu Dhabi Associate Dean of Engineering [and research assistant professor in the department of...

Artificial fingerprints have been developed by researchers who say they could one day be used to hack into everyday devices. … Researchers from New York University [Tandon School of Engineering] and Michigan State University successfully generated what they call “DeepMasterPrints” earlier this year. … Philip Bontrager, Aditi Roy, Julian Togelius, Nasir Memon [professors of computer...

What are three burning questions regarding legal and compliance issues that enterprise security leaders should ponder as they head into 2019? Ed Amoroso, former CISO of AT&T and current CEO of TAG Cyber, outlines the questions and possible answers. … Amoroso also has been adjunct professor of computer science at the Stevens Institute of Technology...

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...