Category: <span>CCS News</span>

When Damon McCoy, an assistant professor of computer science at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, heard from a friend that Facebook was about to publicize all its political-ad data, he was intrigued. With Facebook under increasing scrutiny for its role in reaching voters through targeted-ad campaigns, the move toward heightened transparency was unprecedented in the...

On August 31, two leading cybersecurity educational and financial institutions will take steps to widen that pipeline. The NYU Tandon School of Engineering will award an initial round of scholarships, funded by Bridgewater Associates, a global leader in institutional portfolio management and the largest hedge fund in the world, to students from under-represented minority groups...

Researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering [have] developed Uptane, universal, free, and open-source framework to protect wireless software updates in vehicles, as part of the OTA cybersecurity toolkit for a growing number of automakers and suppliers. Open-source systems, which imprlynove through open security reviews, are an increasingly popular approach to securing OTA updates...

A team at NYU Tandon School of Engineering has found a new way to prove the provenance of a part. Led by Nikhil Gupta, an NYU associate professor of mechanical engineering, the university researchers divided up a QR code and hid the hundreds of pieces throughout the layers of the 3D-printed part.

Article cites research by Nikhil Gupta, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. … A team of New York University [Tandon School of Engineering] researchers has found a way to convert flat QR codes into complex features hidden within 3D-printed objects to foil any potential pirates. In a paper published...

Researchers at NYU Tandon [School of Engineering] and NYU Abu Dhabi believe they have come up with a solution to foil counterfeiters and IP pirates. Their new method of identifying a unique device involves converting QR codes into 3D hidden features. … Nikhil Gupta, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, explains: “To create typical QR...

Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon was one of the researchers on this study. That’s the basis for a new approach developed by Zhenghao Hu and colleagues at New York University. Why not fill ordinary code with benign bugs as a way of fooling potential attackers? The idea is...

The best way to defend against software flaws is to find them before the attackers do. This is the unshakeable security orthodoxy challenged by a radical new study from researchers at New York University. The study argues that a better approach might be to fill software with so many false flaws that black hats get bogged...

Camouflage and distraction have long been hallmarks of warfare, and it’s no different when it comes to the cyber-front. A group of researchers from New York University are taking the idea further than it’s gone before with the idea of introducing decoy bugs into code – ultimately non-exploitable vulnerabilities that can attract attacker interest and...

Instead of routinely hunting and killing bugs, new research is proposing the addition of a “chaff bug” in programs to make them safer. By making software “buggier,” hackers could be baited and therefore overwhelmed by the number of bugs in a system and eventually give up their search, according to a study by researchers Zhenghao...