Category: <span>Press Highlights</span>

The telephone and Internet giant AT&T wants to buy the media conglomerate Time Warner. President Trump has opposed this $85 billion deal, and the U.S. Justice Department is in federal court to try and stop it. The opening arguments are scheduled to begin this week…. [Center for Cybersecurity Co-Chair Randy] Milch says a judgment against AT&T...

NYU Tandon’s Offensive Security, Incident Response and Internet Security Laboratory, well known as the OSIRIS Lab, recently welcomed a new hacker-in-residence: Sophia d’Antoine, a Senior Security Researcher at Trail of Bits.

… Only 5 percent of the Earth’s oceans have been explored, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But that could be changing, thanks in part to a new development by researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Coming out of the lab of Professor Nikhil Gupta

A study by researchers at Google, Chainalysis, University of California San Diego and NYU Tandon School of Engineering estimated that from 2016 to mid 2017, victims paid $25 million in ransom to get files back. CSE Professor, Damon McCoy’s research was referenced in this article.

Professor Cappos’ segment on PBS Sci Tech will be airing ­­on 3/26/18 on WLIW at 7:30pm. It will repeat on 3/28/18 at 5:30pm and 4/01/18 at 6pm. Additionally, the show will be posted to https://scitechnow.org/ following the first airing.

Professor McCoy described his research with doxing, which is the public release of people’s information and other methods of social engineering that collect personal information. His research indicates that the use of this data can be innocuous or harmful if it is used for extortion or other stalking purposes.

Professor Nasir Memon talked about the city’s and industries’ strategies to find and recruit more qualified personnel. As part of the strategy, the two mentioned the “Cyber Fellowship” initiative; a master’s program in cybersecurity.

Professor Memon, a pioneer in computer science, spoke on The Bridge BK podcast about how he aims to make the field affordable and open to all. Click the link to listen.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Student, Abdullah Alharbi’s work on the application of 2D materials for security was featured as a research highlight in Nature Nanontechnology. Click to read more…