New technology is making cars more connected than ever – and more hack-able. NYU Tandon Professor Justin Cappos does a live demo of the framework his team has developed to help prevent such security attacks.
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White hat hackers called to poke holes in open source connected car security platform
The New York University Tandon School of Engineering, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and the Southwest Research Institute developed a cybersecurity framework called Uptane, for the automotive industry to protect wireless software updates in connected vehicles.
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Are software updates key to stopping criminal car hacks?
Unlike many cybersecurity experts, Justin Cappos doesn’t lay awake at night worrying about data breaches. Instead, as today’s automobiles roll off assembly lines with dozens of embedded computers on board, the New York University computer science professor worries that malicious hackers may become more adept at remotely hijacking cars as they speed down the road….
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Call Issued to White Hat Hackers: Find the Flaws in New Automotive Software Updater
A consortium of researchers today 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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Open source cybersecurity framework for the automotive industry
A consortium of researchers 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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WhatsApp’s privacy woes show how messaging app tries to balance security and ease of use
WhatsApp has become popular worldwide thanks to its powerful encryption technology. But making this type of secure messaging approachable and user-friendly can pose some [privacy] problems.… Justin Cappos, a professor in New York University’s [NYU Tandon School of Engineering] computer science and engineering department, said the issue boils down to a user interface problem…
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How Did the Russian Hacks Happen? (audio)
Bob Mitchell from WWL AM 870/FM 105.3 talks to Justin Cappos, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at NYU, about the Russian hacks (Interview at 1:40).
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Business Briefs: SAP India Embraces ‘1BLives’ Initiative
Following a successful international cooperation that attracted more than 15,000 students, faculty, professionals and supporters to the world’s largest student-run cybersecurity games, the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and IIT Kanpur have signed a seven-year agreement to deepen their exchange in information security research and academic…
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Inside Cyber Security Awareness Week
Shortly after Election Day, before the interference of Russian hackers became front-page news, a group of thirty-one high-school students gathered at N.Y.U.’s Tandon School of Engineering, in Brooklyn, for Cyber Security Awareness Week. Their mission: to solve a murder mystery involving a fictional Presidential race by analyzing digital “evidence” of security breaches.
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How Scared Should I Be of the Internet of Things?
…The proliferation of smart appliances may have drawbacks…According to Justin Cappos, computer scientist at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, potentially hackable IOT devices are an untamed frontier.