Article cites research by Damon McCoy, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. President Trump is now officially the biggest political advertiser on Facebook, according to a group of New York University [Tandon School of Engineering] researchers. My colleague Sheera Frenkel reported that the president and his political action...
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Now Transparent: Political Advertising on Facebook, Instagram
The Online Political Ads Transparency Project was conceived by Computer Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Damon McCoy to build easy-to-use tools to collect, archive, and analyze political advertising data. Although Facebook became the first major social media company to launch a searchable archive of political advertising, for both Facebook and Instagram, in May 2018, McCoy...
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How The Update Framework Improves Software Distribution Security
In recent years that there been multiple cyber-attacks that compromised a software developer’s network to enable the delivery of malware inside of software updates. That’s a situation that Justin Cappos, founder of The Update Framework (TUF) open-source project, has been working hard to help solve.
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The Biggest Spender of Political Ads on Facebook? President Trump
…Damon McCoy, who conducted the study with two fellow researchers, Laura Edelson and Shikhar Sakhuja, said they were not able to tally the total spending for Republicans and Democrats because their analysis was ongoing, though they planned to release those figures in the future.
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Justin Cappos on Why Cars Are Not Like Computers When It Comes to Cybersecurity
Justin Cappos is a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at New York University [Tandon School of Engineering], where his research addresses problems in security, systems, software update systems, and virtualization. His research philosophy focuses on solving real world security problems in practice, with software such as Docker, git, Python, and most Linux...
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Reaching greater depths with 3D printing
Syntactic foam is a strong and buoyant material commonly used in the manufacturing of submarines. Now, a team of researchers have developed a method of 3D printing components of syntactic foam that could take submarines to greater depths. Nikhil Gupta, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering,...
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Justin Cappos: Security in Kubernetes
The New Stack Makers podcast episode Justin Cappos recently recorded with TNS Founder Alex Williams at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 is now live on SoundCloud and YouTube, click here to listen.
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Fake rental ads are everywhere, and Colorado consumers need to watch out
“There is usually something that engenders trust and makes you want to help them,” said Damon McCoy, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering.
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Container and Kubernetes Security: It's Complicated
CNCF does not mandate or prescribe a reference architecture for Kubernetes and associated project deployment. However, Justin Cappos, professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at New York University and leader of the TUF project, said the various projects do tend to communicate with each other.
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Breaking Down The AT&T-Time Warner Decision
Randal Milch, Former General Counsel and strategic policy advisor to Verizon’s Chairman and CEO. Co-chair of the NYU Center for Cybersecurity.