Category: <span>CCS News</span>

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...

… This year, participants breached design files to 3D print counterfeit parts, and a team of five hacked an ATM, leaving with $2,000 in cash. But these cyber whizzes are not wanted criminals—they were competitors in the 15th Annual Cyber Security Awareness Week, or CSAW, conference hosted by the New York University Center for Cybersecurity...

For a second year in a row, a team of students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute earned top honors at the 15th anniversary edition of Cyber Security Awareness Week. A team of four computer science students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute once again took home top honors at the 15th anniversary edition of Cyber Security Awareness Week...

Backdoors in machine learning have gotten little attention, but researchers have demonstrated proofs of concept for how such backdoors might work. ‘It’s possible they 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 assistant professor in the computer science and engineering...

The OSET Institute logged more than 900 individual reports of voting issues, according to the TrustTheVote Project’s first PollWatch campaign. But the problems weren’t the anticipated cyberattacks. Written by our Cybersecurity Service Scholar Marc Canellas.

Ramesh Karri and Farshad Khorrami, professors in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NYU Tandon, and Michail Maniatakos, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Tandon were involved in the tests featured in this article. … There is evidence that nation-state attackers are already targeting power grids...

For the second year in a row, the Esisar Engineering School in Valence (Drôme) is hosting the European Cyber ??Security Awareness Week finals from 8th to 10th November. …These future cybersecurity professionals … compete in a global competition. Cyber ??Security Awareness Week pits 107 countries in the early stages of qualifying. Next are the final...

… 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...