Category: Press Highlights

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

… 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...

Flaws [in military equipment] could be introduced in the 3-D printing software by a cyberattack if the printers aren’t equipped with proper cybersecurity, said Nikhil Gupta, New York University associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and an affiliate faculty at the NYU Center for Cyber Security. The possibility of a bug altering a 3-D...