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Public Now Mayor de Blasio today announced the launch of NYC Secure, a pioneering cybersecurity initiative aimed at protecting New Yorkers online.  … ‘CyberCrime is sadly a part of our daily reality, and NYU Tandon is eager to continue its partnership with New York City and support Mayor de Blasio’s initiatives that help provide online...

Brooklyn Eagle For the first time in its 164-year history, the former Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn appointed its first female dean yesterday. Jelena Kovacevic was named dean of NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering by President Andrew Hamilton and Provost Katherine Fleming, effective Aug. 15.  Kovacevic, who comes from Carnegie Mellon University — where she is...

Professor Damon McCoy speaks on the dark side of trolling.

Washington Square News With all of Cambridge Analytica’s lapses, NYU Tandon professor Justin Cappos, who works heavily in cyber security, warns against placing too much of the blame on the data firm, which he likened to a robber and Facebook to a glaringly insecure bank. “Of course, what Cambridge Analytica did was bad but Facebook...

C4ISRNET The use of 3-D printing in the military is becoming more commonplace, and as a result experts are emphasizing the importance of treating 3-D printers like the hackable machines they are. While a 3-D printer’s capability for experimental on-site manufacturing is far more futuristic than a traditional Wi-Fi enabled printer, the hardware is as...

Futurity New research brings the murky ecosystem of ransomware payments into focus. Ransomware attacks, which encrypt and hold a computer user’s files hostage in exchange for payment, extort millions of dollars from individuals each month and comprise one of the fastest-growing forms of cyber attack. … Damon McCoy, assistant professor of computer science and engineering...

Enterprise Times The murky ecosystem of ransomware payments comes into focus in new research led by Damon McCoy, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. … Amongst the most striking findings are: the discovery that South Koreans are disproportionately impacted by ransomware campaigns. … Most ransomware operators...

Researchers from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering have studied ransomware payments learning that $16 million in ransomware payments have been tracked in the past two years by researchers with South Korea paying about $2.5 million as the country has been hard hit by the impact of ransomware. … ‘Ransomware operators ultimately direct bitcoin to...

Carbonite – Breach (podcast series) Damon McCoy, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon at 19:18. … In this episode of Breach, we attempt to connect the dots between the Yahoo security breach, the DNC hack and efforts to undermine the U.S. presidential election on social media. And while we didn’t find...

Interview with Justin Cappos, associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon, at 7:50. “Certainly as these systems get more and more complex there are more and more opportunities for hackers,” said Cappos. “It’s not clear whether having cars that drive themselves or have advanced safety systems are more at risk or less...