NYU Center for Cybersecurity Distinguished Senior Fellow Lisa O. Monaco discusses the future of national security in the Trump administration with CNN’s Jim Sciutto. As President Obama’s former top counterterrorism and homeland security advisor, Monaco coordinated policy development and crisis response to terrorist attacks, cyberincidents, and public health emergencies and natural disasters.
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Google Users Being Targeted With Google Doc Phishing Email
… Users are asked to click on a link to view a document, which provides the hackers access to the contents of their Google accounts, including email, contacts and online documents, according to security experts who reviewed the scheme. ‘This is a very serious situation for anybody who is infected because the victims have their...
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Did Obama Blow It on the Russian Hacking?
It’s a question that still rankles many a Clinton loyalist: Why didn’t the Obama administration do more to sound the alarm over Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign? Few former officials have explained it, but in a new interview for The Global POLITICO, Lisa Monaco, President Obama’s top homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, describes...
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The Global Politico with Lisa Monaco
NYU Center for Cybersecurity Distinguished Senior Fellow Lisa O. Monaco appeared on The Global Politico, a weekly podcast about the world in the Trump era. In addition to her experiences with counterterrorism, she discussed how the Obama White House handled the Russian hacking of the 2016 elections–the first extensive comments by someone in the room at...
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Lecture Will Explore the Dangers of Hardware Hackers in a World of Interconnected Devices
The eighth event in a series of open lectures on cybersecurity and privacy at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering will convene in Downtown Brooklyn on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, with an exploration of the hardware security challenges posed by interconnected devices and cloud computing. Convergence of IoT, Cloud, Security: A Perfect Storm...
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Fox 5 Report: Selling Your Online Search History, featuring Prof. Justin Cappos (video)
Justin Cappos, Assistant Professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering comments on a new bill that the House and Senate passed that rolls back privacy protection rules put in place by President Obama: “Now when you browse the web you are going to be tracked by the person you are...
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Days After London Terror Attack, the UK Government Is Already Going After WhatsApp's Encryption
NYU Center for Cybersecurity co-founder Zachary K. Goldman comments on the encryption debate in light of the most recent attacks in London: While there is “an undeniable governmental need for these messages,” the question is really whether companies should be forced to build a product that allows the government to access data…Any action on this...
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The (Research) Stars Shine Bright in Texas
When Jeyavijayan (JV) Rajendran was a graduate student at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, it was not unusual to see him mentioned on the school website. Working with Professor Ramesh Karri of Electrical and Computer Engineering, he helped cement Tandon’s reputation at the forefront of hardware security … Now a tenure-track assistant professor at...
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Is Privacy Real? The CIA Is Jeopardizing America's Digital Security, Experts Warn
WikiLeaks released the latest cache of confidential C.I.A. documents Thursday as part of an ongoing ‘Vault 7’ operation, exposing the U.S. government of its hacking and digital espionage capabilities. … The agency may have left millions open to the exact attacks it said it was trying to prevent, regardless of its intentions, by not reporting...
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Will the Trump Administration Protect Hard-Won Progress with China on Cybersecurity? Featuring Robert Silvers
As Presidents Trump and Xi prepare for their first meeting next month at Mar-a-Lago, most early attention has centered on tension points involving Taiwan policy, the South China Sea, North Korea and trade. But another U.S.-China issue hangs in the balance: cybersecurity.