Zachary K. Goldman discusses why it’s challenging to decide what an appropriate response would look like to a sophisticated cyber attack by a foreign government, and the future of cyber strategy.
Category: Press Highlights
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FBI Official: Feds Can't Compete With Top Tech Companies for Cybersecurity Analysts
The United States has a shortage of cybersecurity analysts qualified to prevent cyberattacks that is contributing to the vulnerability of the nation’s computer networks, an FBI official said Wednesday…Professor Nasir Memon of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering said a good cybersecurity analyst needs to know not just the technology, but also human...
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A Future Car May Be Protected From Hacking By Software Developed in San Antonio (audio)
Someone looking to hack into your car probably isn’t trying to steal from your bank account…but the results could be far more damaging. … ‘If you can exploit an update system, it is like the golden entryway,’ says NYU Professor of Engineering Justin Cappos. Mott, Cappos and their research teams, which includes NYU’s Tandon School...
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Automotive ECU Updates: Keeping the Hackers Out
We’ve already seen software hacks in vehicles, as Junko Yoshida reported in Auto Security Demands All-Over Answer. Recognizing the problem, a group of researchers, students, and developers from New York University, the University of Michigan, and the Southwest Research Institute have developed a software architecture designed to combat intrusions during ECU firmware updates.
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Legal Code: In new seminar, law and engineering students solve cybersecurity challenges requiring both legal and technical know-how
In response to this changing security landscape, the Law School, in collaboration with NYU Tandon School of Engineering and other NYU schools and departments, launched a pioneered interdisciplinary research institute, the NYU Center for Cybersecurity (CCS). One of the first institutes of its kind at an academic institution, CCS allows NYU Law scholars to conduct...
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Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
How to think about tech policy and top-of-mind issues for the tech industry, given a new president? From what agencies matter for different tech domains — e.g., autonomous cars, drones, fintech, healthcare — to recent staffing moves, the a16z Policy and Regulatory Affairs team shares their views in this episode of the podcast.
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Automotive Software Developers Call on Hackers to Find its Flaws
A consortium of US researchers has announced the development of a universal, free, and open-source framework to protect wireless software updates in vehicles. The team issued a challenge to security experts everywhere to try to find vulnerabilities before it is adopted by the automotive industry.
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White hackers to seek errors in open-source cybersecurity framework for cars
Researchers from NYU Tandon, the University of Michigan Transport Research Institute (UMTRI), and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have launched a challenge to all white hackers and security experts: find vulnerabilities before implementation of Uptane, the most recent open source cybersecurity framework for the automotive industry.
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NYU Tandon Prof Unveils Homeland Security-Funded Framework for Software Security in Cars
…Cappos, along with collaborators from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and the Southwest Research Institute, created a software security update framework for automobiles called Uptane, unveiled last week to reporters at an event at NYU Tandon.
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Uptane Will Protect Your Connected Car From Hackers
New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, the Southwest Research Institute, and the University of Michigan Transport Research Institute are working on a more modern, secure method for sending updates to vehicles. They call it Uptane, and they say that it “counters a comprehensive array of security attacks’ and that can even cope with being...