While the annual CSAW competition is still several months away, a new competition called the Hack 3D Summer Challenge, served as a calling card for the main event. The summer session, which focused on growing security concerns in the field of additive manufacturing, invited student to “test the security limits in additive manufacturing and to...
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Cybersecurity strategy for vehicles marks a pair of firsts
Onboard computing units in cars are a desirable target for hackers. Defensive strategies are out there, but many automotive manufacturers and suppliers are not equipped to choose between them. To make the differences between available options clearer, the Uptane project recently announced the availability of two new educational resources. On June 12, Uptane, a secure...
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Introducing the 2021 CCS Ph.D.s
Five doctoral candidates affiliated with the NYU Center for Cybersecurity were officially declared graduates at Commencement Services on May 19. Let’s congratulate the Center’s newly minted doctors as they head off to positions in both industry and academia. Periwinkle Doerfler (Advisor: Dr. Damon McCoy) Ph.D., Computer Science Periwinkle successfully defended her dissertation on “’Adversarial ‘Intended’ Usage...
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CCS Ph.D. graduate Doerfler featured in 2021 “Commencement Profile”
Dr. Periwinkle Doerfler from the Computer Science and Engineering department was one of 18 NYU Tandon graduates from all levels featured in a series of “2021 Commencement Profiles” shared on the school’s website and featured in the ceremony’s program. In the profile, Doerfler, one of five CCS-affiliated doctoral candidates to be awarded a Ph.D. at...
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Tandon research projects tap emerging encryption strategies to better secure data
The early months of 2021 have been a productive period for Dr. Brandon Reagen, an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and a member of the NYU Center for Cybersecurity (CCS). His recent initiatives to enhance data security have included two different projects utilizing an increasingly popular form of encryption called fully homomorphic encryption...
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Tandon research team reveals GANs cannot completely protect identity
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are machine-learning (ML) systems used to “scrub” images of any traces of personal identity. But, after exploring the machine-learning frameworks behind these tools, a team of researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering suggest that these scrubbed images leave a lot of “residue” behind. The...
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Political Ad Initiative Broadens its Focus, Changes its Name
For the past few years, NYU Tandon Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Dr. Damon McCoy and Ph.D. candidate Laura Edelson have been peering behind the curtain of social media to reveal the sources behind political ads and content, and to use data analysis to expose possible disinformation campaigns. Through the Online Political Advertising...
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Uptane welcomes its newest corporate member–EnGIS Technologies
EnGIS Technologies, Inc. a leading supplier of automotive software solutions, announced on February 8, 2021, that it has joined the Uptane project under the umbrella of the Joint Development Foundation of the Linux Foundation. The Seoul, South Korea-based company makes this step as it begins work on integrating the Uptane framework into its EnAIR Over-The-Air (OTA) software...
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Solar Winds attack confirms fears of cyber professionals about nation-state threats
The recent SolarWinds attack that released sensitive data from multiple Federal and local government entities confirmed the worst long-held fear of cybersecurity experts: that organized hacks supported by the resources of nation states were no longer the stuff of dystopian science fiction. This change in attitude was confirmed by a 5% rise in nation-state hacking...
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NYU Tandon Cyber Fellows gain a valuable new training partner
RangeForce, a cloud-based cyber range that provides hands-on training in cybersecurity, announced in early January 2021 that it was partnering with the Cyber Fellows program at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. By providing access to the company’s RangeForce Interactive CyberSkills Training Platform, the students will be able to use more than 400...