Plenty of people want to get famous online, but most people don’t. Researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and the University of Illinois at Chicago released a report Tuesday on the very modern-day phenomenon of doxing, or revealing someone’s personal information online. The report, “Fifteen Minutes of Unwanted Fame,” analyzed 1.7 million text...
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Linux Foundation Taps Researcher’s Security Framework as Standard for the Cloud
The Linux Foundation recently recognized The Update Framework (TUF), which is overseen by a research team at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, as a key security system. … The Foundation tapped TUF as one of two new projects hosted by its Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The other is Notary — the most prominent implementation...
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Why They Dox: First Large-scale Study Reveals Top Motivations and Targets for This Form of Cyber Bullying
Researchers at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have published the first large-scale study of a low-tech, high-harm form of online harassment known as doxing. … “This study adds significantly to our understanding of this deeply damaging form of online abuse,” said Damon McCoy, an...
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U.S.-Led Cybersecurity Contest Gets More Global
The next generation of cybersecurity experts is vying for top honors at an annual global contest created by New York University [Tandon School of Engineering]. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and the Grenoble Institute of Technology in France are the latest to join in the world’s biggest student-run cybersecurity event, called Cyber Security...
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All About Bugs (of the Animal and Computer Varieties) (Podcast)
Musical crickets, crop-saving wasps — and why you should pre-bug your software. Professor Brendan Dolan-Gavitt explains to Stephen Dubner, noted author and host of the NPR program Freakonomics why he puts bugs in programs to make them more secure. [interview at 12:10]
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Tracking Hackers with NLP and Machine Learning
…Cybercrime researchers and law enforcement need to broadly understand the scale and scope of the activity on these underground markets, but it takes a long time for human analysts to peruse entire forums. To expedite this process, a multi-university team of researchers including Damon McCoy, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU [Tandon...
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It's Time to Address Cybersecurity Education, Say Policymakers
… Many institutions have already ramped up their cybersecurity education frameworks, such as NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s Center for Cybersecurity, which began offering classes in the subject in 1999. Founder and professor, Nasir Memon, told Education Dive that the program provides the necessary hands-on approach to get students the training and expertise needed to...
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iPhone X First Look: Let's Talk About Face ID
The iPhone X’s Face ID camera module has received a bit more press than Apple might’ve intended. The facial recognition security tech was the whiz-bang feature that caught everybody’s eye during the Tim Cook and friends keynote—and later it was repeatedly fingered as the culprit behind the long-rumored iPhone X shortages and delays. So what’s...
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Top Experts: Can Facebook Legally Disclose Russian Ads–What does the Stored Communications Act say?
How could the Stored Communications Act (SCA) prohibit Facebook from providing Congress with the “Russian Ads” one day, but permit it the next?
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CNCF Adds Security, Service Mesh and Tracing Projects: Docker Notary, Lyft Envoy and Uber Jaeger
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced the addition of four new hosted projects over the past month ..[including] The Update Framework (TUF) an open source specification that was written in 2009 by Professor Justin Cappos and developed further by members of the Professor Cappos’s Secure Systems Lab at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering....