Category: <span>CCS News</span>

Research project led by CSE Professor Damon McCoy. Facebook said it is investigating whether an organization backed by billionaire and Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman violated the social media giant’s policies when it set up a series of misleading news pages in a bid to target U.S. voters with left-leaning political messages. The probe focuses on...

Researchers have created artificial fingerprints that they say can be used to hack into smartphones and other devices. These “DeepMasterPrints” are machine-learning methods that act as a master key, according to the researchers from New York University [Tandon School of Engineering] and Michigan State University, CNBC reports. The researchers — Philip Bontrager, Aditi Roy, Julian...

Article cites research by Damon McCoy, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Internet billionaire Reid Hoffman apologized on Wednesday for funding a group linked to a “highly disturbing” effort that spread disinformation during last year’s Alabama special election for U.S. Senate, but said he was not aware...

Article cites research led by Damon McCoy, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Facebook said it is investigating whether an organization backed by Internet billionaire and Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman violated the social media giant’s policies when it set up several misleading news pages in a bid...

Some institutions aim to offer real-life experience through competition. New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, for example, annually hosts a student-run cybersecurity competition dubbed CSAW. This year, its 15th running, saw 3,500 teams from more than 100 countries complete challenges designed by New York City’s top ethical hackers. “You cannot really teach about security...

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,...