The next generation of electronic hardware security may be at hand as researchers at New York University Tandon School of Engineering introduce a new class of unclonable cybersecurity security primitives made of a low-cost nanomaterial with the highest possible level of structural randomness. Randomness is highly desirable for constructing the security primitives that encrypt and...
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Nanotech Anti-Hacker Developed to Challenge Any Hacker Now
Researchers at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering have developed a new class of low-cost nanomaterial which could protect computer hardware and data physically from hackers. … Davood Shahrjerdi, Assistant Professor at Tandon who led the research said, “At monolayer thickness, this material has the optical properties of a semiconductor that emits light,...
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Victims of ‘Home Takeover’ Scam Locked Out of House
A Delaware man says he’s the victim of a so-called “home takeover” scam. … Alexander Pratt lived in a Wilmington house for 10 months with his fiancee and son before being locked out. … Pratt said the man he thought was the landlord and to whom he paid rent disappeared. The real property owners said...
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Experts Warn: Terrorists ‘Could Kill Millions’ by Remotely Hacking People’s Cars
Cyberterrorists have the potential to put millions of lives at risk by hacking the sophisticated cars on 21st Century roadways, one expert has warned. The caution comes amid a host of technological advances pervading the automotive industry. … “If there was a war or escalation with a country with strong cybercapability, I would be very...
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Cyber criminals working for enemy states could ‘kill millions’ by remotely hacking cars, warns expert
Terrorist hackers working for enemy states could turn cars into killing machines, a security expert has warned. Any car built after 2005 is an ‘open door’ to hackers and could be remotely controlled to obliterate ‘millions of civilians’, a researcher has found. The warning was made by Justin Cappos. … Dr Cappos says this vulnerability...
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Hackers could take control of cars and kill millions, ministers warned
Modern cars are an “open door” to hackers, inviting hostile states to use Britain’s roads as a weapon against citizens, ministers have been warned. Deaths are inevitable within five years if carmakers do not fix vulnerabilities in technology, one of the world’s experts in vehicle software has said. Justin Cappos said that any car built...
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Boards Should Think of Cyber a Bit More Like Bank Robberies, Former AT&T Security Chief Says
Corporate boards should think about cybersecurity risk as banks think about bank robbery: a relatively common risk that must be managed. “Just like bank robbery, you can’t say get rid of (cyber risk) and make it never happen,” said Ed Amoroso, former chief security officer at AT&T Inc.
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A Quantitative Analysis of Doxing: Who Gets Doxed, and How Can We Detect Doxing Automatically?
A group of NYU [Tandon School of Engineering] and University of Illinois at Chicago computer scientists have presented a paper at the 2017 ACM Internet Measurement Conference in London presenting their findings in a large-scale study of online doxings, with statistics on who gets doxed (the largest cohort being American, male, gamers, and in their...
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Cyber Defense Tool Limitations and What Our Leaders Should Be Doing About Them
With: Judith Germano, Senior Fellow at the NYU Center for Cybersecurity and NYU Center on Law & Security and Founder, GermanoLaw LLC Timothy Ryan, Principal, Assurance Services, Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services, Ernst & Young LLP Matthew Waxman, Liviu Librescu Professor of Law and the faculty chair of the National Security Law Program at Columbia...
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Why people ruin others’ lives by exposing all their data online
… All these people were doxed – that is, someone published their personal information against their will, in a public forum intended for dissemination and abuse, instigating a torrent of attacks from strangers. … But despite many individual cases catching the public eye, up until now there has been very little research examining the scale...