Category: CCS News

… This weekend took place in Valencia but also simultaneously in … Kanpur and New York [University, Tandon School of Engineering], the final of the CSAW. This is the largest academic cybersecurity competition in the world. The goal: 12,000 future cybersecurity professionals are invited to hack computer systems and connected objects, to reveal the flaws...

They pirate by challenge and are courted by recruiters in a booming sector: a hundred computer enthusiasts competed this weekend in Valencia at CSAW, the largest academic cybersecurity competition in the world. The European finals of this ambitious ‘hackathon’ was held on the campus of … Esisar from Thursday to Saturday and simultaneously in Abu...

The 15th anniversary edition of the world’s largest student-led hacking and protection competitions, CSAW, closed Saturday at universities across four continents with record-breaking participation in the face of reports of shortfalls of up to 3 million experts globally. The founder of CSAW, the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, welcomed 130 student finalists in...

The cybersecurity sector, which is booming, now has 24,000 employees in the country. The turnover of the companies specialized in the protection of the networks increases by 10% per year. In a competition [at venues worldwide, including NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering], young cybersecurity talents challenge themselves to hack into the computer system of a...

With more than one in four organizations experiencing hacks and a predicted global shortage of two million cyber security professionals by 2019, NYU is working to train the future of cyber workers. This past weekend, the NYU Center for Cybersecurity held its 15th annual Cyber Security Awareness Week at the MakerSpace at the Tandon School...

Top student computer hackers have descended on NYU Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn for Cyber Security Awareness Week, known as CSAW. This is the largest student-led cybersecurity contest, which was founded by Nasir Memon [professor of computer science and engineering and associate dean for online learning at NYU Tandon].   

New York University’s CSAW, which calls itself the world’s largest student-run cybersecurity competition, this week announced the 397 high school, undergraduate, and graduate students from around the world who will enter its final round. CSAW started in, and is organized by, NYU‘s Tandon School of Engineering. This year, its 15th running, saw 3,500 teams from...

…“Nationally, we graduate twice the number of psychology majors as opposed to engineers,” said Nasir Memon, professor and associate dean for online learning at the N.Y.U. Tandon School of Engineering. ..“So one of the things we did is start a bridge program, where we say, we don’t care what you did in your undergrad; you...

NYU student Nick Gregory has won the $10,000 Atlanta Cyber Challenge. The announcement was made at a virtual check presentation ceremony held at the University of North Georgia’s Center for Cyber Operations Education. Gregory is a senior at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering pursuing a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science with a focus...

Political advertisers are required to fill in a field that says who paid for the message in your news feed, but that does not necessarily tell you who they or their backers are. …A growing number of Facebook ads in the run-up to the election took advantage of that loophole to obscure or conceal the...