Facebook shut down as many as 30,000 fake accounts in the past week — but that’s unlikely to hurt the multi-million-dollar spam industry. … “If you go to the underground markets where they sell fake Facebook accounts, you can buy 1,000 of these for $300 to $400,” Damon McCoy, a New York University [Tandon School...
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Former counterterrorism adviser: There are bound to be more cyberattacks
Russia’s successful incursion into the 2016 presidential election has opened a new, menacing phase in cyberwarfare and is a harbinger of attacks to come, says President Barack Obama’s former top counterterrorism adviser, Center for Cybersecurity Distinguished Senior Fellow Lisa O. Monaco.
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The Axe Files with Lisa Monaco
Lisa Monaco, the former homeland security adviser to President Obama, talks with David Axelrod about what she thinks are the greatest threats facing America today, why the Trump administration’s travel ban hurts our counterterrorism efforts, and why she believes Russia’s incursion into our election has opened a new phase in cyberwarfare.
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Computer Scientists Are Developing A ‘Master’ Fingerprint That Could Unlock Your Phone
Fingerprint readers, like the TouchID on an iPhone, exist to make your device extra secure while keeping the process of unlocking it easy. Computer scientists at New York University and Michigan State are poised to turn that security benefit on its head. Like a master key that can open any lock, these researchers developed digital...
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Computer Scientists Are Developing a ‘Master’ Fingerprint That Could Unlock Your Phone
Fingerprint readers, like the TouchID on an iPhone, exist to make your device extra secure while keeping the process of unlocking it easy. Computer scientists at New York University and Michigan State are poised to turn that security benefit on its head. … “The sensors are small and they don’t capture the full fingerprint,” says...
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Researchers Develop Master Fingerprints That Can Break Into Smartphones
Researchers at New York University and Michigan State University have recently found that the fingerprint sensor on your phone is not as safe as you think. ‘The team has developed a set of fake fingerprints that are digital composites of common features found in many people’s fingerprints,’ reports Digital Trends. ‘Through computer simulations, they were...
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Your Smartphone Fingerprint Security System May Not Be as Safe as You Think
…A team of researchers from New York University Tandon School of Engineering and Michigan State University College of Engineering have found that partial similarities between prints are common enough to fool biometric security systems … leading them to be much more vulnerable than previously thought.
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Robots to the Rescue at the Kennedy Space Center
It’s no small task to build a fully autonomous robot capable of mining raw materials from the surface of Mars, but that’s exactly what a team of NYU Tandon School of Engineering students is attempting to do. For the sixth consecutive year, a Tandon team will be taking part in the NASA Robotic Mining Competition.
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That Fingerprint Sensor on Your Phone Is Not as Safe as You Think
New findings published Monday by researchers at New York University and Michigan State University suggest that smartphones can easily be fooled by fake fingerprints digitally composed of many common features found in human prints. In computer simulations, the researchers from the universities were able to develop a set of artificial “MasterPrints” that could match real...
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The President Test: Anderson Cooper 360
NYU Center for Cybersecurity Distinguished Senior Fellow Lisa O. Monaco discusses the national security and foreign policy challenges facing the White House on CNN.