Category: <span>CCS News</span>

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...

After besting a record-breaking 3,500 teams from more than 100 countries, an elite corps of high school, college, and graduate students will advance to the finals of the world’s biggest student-led cybersecurity contest: the New York University Tandon School of Engineering’sannual CSAW games. …  The scale of CSAW, in this, its 15th year, is evident...

It’s estimated that, by the year 2020, there will be around two million open and unfilled jobs in cybersecurity worldwide—currently, the United States faces a 200,000 person shortfall in this critical field. As an answer to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s recent call to create 10,000 cybersecurity jobs within the next decade, the NYU Tandon School...

Article features research by Damon McCoy, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon. …Through October 20, O’Rourke alone had spent $5.4 million advertising on the platform, according to Facebook’s Ad Archive Report. J. B. Pritzker, Kamala Harris, Andrew Cuomo, Claire McCaskill, and Heidi Heitkamp had spent $5.5 million total. O’Rourke’s opponent, Senator...

…“We’re seeing some really sophisticated operations,” says Damon McCoy, an assistant professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. Dr. McCoy and his colleagues started analyzing Facebook’s searchable database of these ads after the social network made the tool public in May. … Laura Edelson, a doctoral student at the Tandon School, estimates political-ad...