A recent article in Science Line about an online workshop called “Live Breaking into Encrypted 3D Printer,” features a quote from Dr. Nikhil Gupta, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Gupta, who has published several papers and last year lead a series of workshops at...
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Uptane releases V.1.1.0 of its Standard: Clarifying protection strategies for vulnerable vehicles
There is little doubt that cars have caught the attention of hackers, and little hope that these trends will be reversed. In 2016, Uptane, an open-source software security project, designed with direct input from automotive manufacturers and suppliers, was introduced to address this threat. In a nutshell, Uptane implementations secure automotive systems by establishing a...
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Supply chain security framework in-toto hits a milestone; releases v.1.0.0
Releasing V.1.0.0 of a software project marks a significant milestone in its development. It’s an indication that it has reached a level of maturity where its developers can ensure its quality, and guarantee its security to potential adopters. On November 23, in-toto, a software framework developed at NYU Tandon in collaboration with researchers at New...
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Karri, Gupta Assess Status Quo of Cybersecurity in Digital Manufacturing
As digital manufacturing continues to grow in popularity, it also becomes a more visible attack surface for hackers. Recently a team of researchers from NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Texas A&M teamed up to survey the cybersecurity risks in the emerging DM context, assess the impact on manufacturing, and identify approaches to better secure...
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Karri, Maniatakos Paper Selected for ICCAD “Top Picks” Session
A 2015 paper based on research conducted by NYU CCS faculty in Brooklyn and Abu Dhabi was selected for inclusion in the 2020 “Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security” session at the International Conference on Computer Aided Design, held November 2-5. “ConFirm: Detecting Firmware Modifications in Embedded Systems using Hardware Performance Counters” is based...
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“Signing Ceremony” Marks Start of TUF/PyPI Deployment via PEP 458
On October 30 at 11:15 AM, the Python Software Foundation live-streamed a special ceremony that marked the first practical steps in deploying The Update Framework (TUF) to The Python Package Index (PyPI). With this ceremony, a key was generated that bootstraps the TUF secure software update technology—a Linux Foundation project overseen by NYU Tandon Associate Professor Justin Cappos—to...
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CPS & IoT Workshop Chaired by NYU Abu Dhabi Professor Streams November 9
The Joint Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security and Privacy & IoT Security (CPSIoTSec’20) will stream on November 9, from 10:00 to 5:30 p.m. The workshop, which is part of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2020, will feature presentations in three sessions, including one devoted to case studies and demonstrations. The program is...
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ZScaler Shares Access to its Zero Trust Exchange with NYU Cyber Fellows Program
Thanks to a new partnership with Zscaler, a San Jose-based cloud security company, participants in NYU Tandon’s Cyber Fellows program will be able to gain practical, first-hand knowledge of secure access service edge (SASE) and zero trust best practices. Under the terms of the partnership, students in the Master’s level cybersecurity program will be able to...
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Tandon Researchers Advance Transparency in Political Advertising with “Observatory” Launch
For the past few years Dr. Damon McCoy, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon, and Ph.D. candidate Laura Edelson have been shedding light on the people behind political advertising through their work on the Online Political Transparency Project . Building on this previous work, NYU Tandon announced on September 15 the...
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CCS Faculty Awarded NSF Grant to Develop Container Security Strategy
Dr. Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at NYU Tandon, will serve as principal investigator on a $1.2 million dollar grant recently awarded by the National Science Foundation. Under the four-year grant, Dolan-Gavitt will work with his CSE colleague, Dr. Justin Cappos, to develop a strategy to secure containers...