Category: <span>CCS News</span>

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...

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].