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Category: <span>Press Highlights</span>
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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....
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3D Printing Gives Hackers Entirely New Ways to Wreak Havoc
Effects created from a hacked file may not materialize until some point in the future, and when they do, it may be in an entirely unpredictable manner… For example, in a recent study, New York University researchers examined two aspects of 3D printing with cybersecurity implications: printing orientation and insertion of fine defects. These tiny errors inducted...
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CNCF Brings In Notary, The Update Framework to Boost Container Security
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation on Oct. 24 announced that it is expanding its project roster with the addition of the Notary container trust project and The Update Framework security effort. Notary relies on TUF, which is a software development and update model that was described in detail by co-creator Justin Cappos, an assistant professor...
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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds two security projects to its open source stable
Today, the CNCF is expanding its stable with the addition of the Docker-incubated Notary and The Update Framework (TUF), which was originally developed by professor Justin Cappos and his team at NYU’s Tandon School of engineering. These are actually related projects. Notary, which can provide a layer of trust to any content, is actually an...
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Cybersecurity Awareness Month Lasts All Year Long at Tandon
By developing ways to make automotive software and hardware more resistant to hacking, keep banking PINs reliably private, and a host of other important research, Tandon is always working towards a safer, more secure world. Read on to learn about what our cybersecurity experts have accomplished recently.
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Popular Science Names Two Brooklyn Technologies Among Top 100 Inventions of 2017
Two new technologies born in Downtown Brooklyn made Popular Science magazine’s list of top inventions for 2017. Uptane, a cybersecurity for cars project out of NYU Tandon, and goTenna, a decentralized cell network technology were listed in the magazine’s Best of What’s New feature. … Uptane is the work of NYU Tandon professor Justin Cappos...
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The 100 greatest innovations of 2017
Don’t let nefarious coders take you for a ride. Late-model cars are basically just engines wrapped in computers. Those computers need updates, but malicious code hidden in software can leave you driving a couple tons of compromised steel. Hackers could track you, or even steer you off the road. Uptane—an open-source software protocol—checks incoming instructions...
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Understanding Cyber Collateral Damage
In this article, Sasha Romanosky and Zachary Goldman address the problem of how to define “collateral damage” in the cyber realm.
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Understanding China’s Crackdown on Bitcoin and ICOs
China’s crackdown on ICO’s highlights an underappreciated perspective: consumer protection