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.
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The 2017 Outlook for U.S.-Russian ties
Zachary K. Goldman comments on the future of bilateral U.S.-Russian relations in the aftermath of sanctions levied as a result of cyberattacks in the U.S.
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Trump praises Putin over US sanctions – a move that puts him at odds with GOP
Zachary K. Goldman comments on the sanctions levied as a result of the US intelligence consensus that Russia ordered cyber-attacks on Democratic party targets as a way to influence the 2016 election in his favor.
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Obama administration is close to announcing measures to punish Russia for election interference
Zachary K. Goldman comments on the upcoming series of measures to punish Russia for its interference in the 2016 presidential election, including economic sanctions and diplomatic censure, according to U.S. officials.
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The World’s Best Security Engineers are Working on Flappy Bird
… At a hacking competition at New York University [Tandon School of Engineering] this year, one could find a lot of students who would agree with that sentiment. One of the annual competitive formats during NYU’s Cyber Security Awareness Week is known as “Capture the Flag,” or CTF, and it attracts the kinds of students...
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NYU students win award for solution to safeguard electronic voting machines
When electronic voting machines came into use in the early 1990s, they made voting cheaper, easier, and more accessible to the electorate, but few programmers gave thought to the issue of cybersecurity…New York University students Kevin Kirby, Anthony Masi, and Fernando Maymi took home first place in the challenge with their system, Votebook, which is...
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Is This Blockchain Voting System By NYU Devs the Solution to Russia Election Meddling?
New York University students Kevin Kirby, Anthony Masi, and Fernando Maymi [Masi and Maymi are cybersecurity graduate students at NYU Tandon School of Engineering] won first place in the contest with Votebook, a “secure, scalable and consistent with current voter behavior and expectations of privacy.”
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Can Blockchain Technology Secure Digital Voting Systems?
The Economist‘s Cybersecurity Case Study Competition awarded the grand prize to New York University, second place was awarded to University of Maryland, College Park and Newcastle University received third place. … “I want to wish congratulations to New York University for their victory in the 2016 Cybersecurity Case Study Competition,” said U.S. Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY).
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IBM Watson Steps Into Real-World Cybersecurity
IBM has launched the Watson for Cyber Security beta program to encourage companies to include Watson in their current security environments. The problem with unstructured data is knowing when one piece of information is more valuable than another and which sources of information are more reliable. But the beauty of Watson is that ‘crucial nuggets...