The in-toto project was recently promoted to the incubator of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The announcement was made in a press release issued March 10, 2022. The CNCF is a Linux Foundation program that supports development of promising new open source technologies. in-toto was developed in the Secure Systems Laboratory at NYU’s Tandon School...
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Uptane releases new version of its Standard
On March 18, the Uptane project announced the release of Uptane Standard for Design and Implementation V.2.0.0 . This new edition of the Standard reflects the secure software update project’s evolution towards greater adaptability in meeting the emerging threats of sophisticated cyber attackers. In V.2.0.0 of its Standard, the Uptane project mandates a few key...
CCS CyberByte Newsletter Spring 2022
Click here to view the latest issue of CCS CyberByte, a newsletter for students, faculty, staff, alumni and industry partners of NYU Tandon’s Center for Cybersecurity. We look forward to sharing your accomplishments in the next issue.
CCS Faculty Member Dolan-Gavitt Receives NSF CAREER Award
Dr. Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and a faculty member with NYU’s Center for Cybersecurity, was named a recipient of a 2022 Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. Known as a CAREER Award, it is given to “early-career faculty who have the potential to...
February issue of CyberByte focuses on CCS Solutions to Supply Chain Weaknesses
Supply chain security is more than buzzword at the Center for Cybersecurity. In its next issue, the Center’s newsletter, CyberByte, offers a snapshot of a few facets of supply chain security being addressed by students and faculty at Tandon. A series of short articles report on efforts to detect Trojans in integrated circuits, prevent the...
CSAW panel discusses the security challenges of 5G
In November 2021, the Center for Cybersecurity at NYU Tandon hosted a panel on the growing cyber threats to 5G networks. As one 2021 survey estimates that the global market for 5G infrastructure will grow by about 800% in the next five years, threats such as the ones listed below can not be ignored. Massive...
The countdown has begun: CSAW 21 Launches on November 10
CSAW 21, the world’s most comprehensive student-run cybersecurity event returns virtually for five days starting November 10. This year’s edition—the 18th since the event began—will feature competitions, panel discussions, a career fair, and multiple opportunities to hear about leading edge technologies for protecting people, systems, and data in the cyber environment. Here is a quick...
TIAA wins CSO50 Award for efforts to reduce the cybersecurity talent crunch
A collaboration between TIAA and NYU Tandon was honored this spring with a CSO50 award. Given by the CSO news service, the award recognizes organizations for security projects and initiatives that demonstrate outstanding business value and thought leadership. The TIAA/Tandon program makes it easier for TIAA employees to complete cybersecurity training, thus better meeting the...
NYU Researcher Addresses Congress on Disinformation
On September 28, 2021, Laura Edelson, co-leader of the Cybersecurity for Democracy project at NYU’s Center for Cybersecurity testified before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. Edelson, who is also a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at NYU Tandon, was part of a panel providing input on “The Disinformation Black...
CCS researchers find Github CoPilot generates vulnerable code 40% of the time
A recent study by cybersecurity researchers at NYU Tandon finds that a significant amount of the code generated by Github CoPilot programming assistant is, at best, buggy, and at worst, potentially vulnerable to attack. The researchers drew their conclusion after creating 89 potential scenarios and having CoPilot output 1,692 programs. When these programs were reviewed,...