Category: <span>CCS News</span>

The brightest minds in cybersecurity connect at RSA Conference. We are pleased to announce Preston Moore and  Mel Savich will participate in the RSACSecurity Scholar Program at RSAC 2019. As scholars, our students will network with peers and industry professionals, take advantage of the opportunity to share current areas of expertise with attendees, and listen...

Today, Third Way announced that Judi Germano, Distinguished Fellow at the NYU Center for Cybersecurity and Adjunct Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, will serve on its Cyber Enforcement Initiative Advisory Board. Germano will join a host of cybersecurity experts from both the public and private sector to provide guidance for the new...

… “Some of the biggest consumers of cybersecurity in the world are sitting right here in New York City: the large banks, the financial corporations and these days even the media corporations need cybersecurity,” said Nasir Memon, a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and associate dean for...

With security threats on the rise for medical devices, NYU [Tandon School of Engineering] hosted a gathering of researchers exploring novel solutions tailored for the sector. … With the microfluidics segment, driven by healthcare applications, projected to hit $4 billion by 2020, the need for defense measures is growing more acute. “The attack surface is...

Facebook is giving more details about who is spending the most money on political ads on its platform, and the leader this election cycle is … Facebook. Facebook calculated its political ad spending to be $12 million, for ads on the social network and Instagram. ..As a report just released by New York University’s Tandon...

Over just two weeks in September, a limited-liability company calling itself News for Democracy spent almost $400,000 on more than 16 million impressions for a network of 14 Facebook pages that hadn’t existed until August. This represented the second-largest political ad buy on Facebook for the period … according to an analysis by a team...

… Computer scientists at the New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering analyzed more than 884,000 recent political ads on the three social media sites. They found that Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again political action committee had the largest number of ads of any candidate while a Republican group called the...

Ever since President Trump’s win in 2016–which many attribute, in part, to his vast online advertising program–many have demanded more transparency for the ads that can be micro-targeted at voters on platforms like Facebook and Google. … A team of data scientists at NYU Tandon, led by professor Damon McCoy, have been crunching all the...

On October 16, 2018, the Center for Cybersecurity hosted the conference Women Leaders in Cybersecurity: At the Intersection of Technology, Privacy, and Security. The event brought together leading women in cybersecurity to address some of the most pressing issues in the field today. It featured topics including data privacy and security, cyber defense, government relations, and...

Fei Chen is no stranger to breaking down walls. Since she joined associate professor Nikhil Gupta’s Composite Materials and Mechanics Laboratory (CMML)four years ago as a research student, the NYU Tandon doctoral candidate has been developing pioneering research into 3D printing and cybersecurity. In 2019, Chen will be the first female Ph.D. student to graduate from...