Judith Germano Mid-November marked the end of the comment period for New York’s “first in nation” proposed cybersecurity legislation for financial institutions. As the hot topic of the day, many regulators and government officials have felt compelled to take a stand on cybersecurity. It seems counterintuitive to set out to protect constituents by inaction. But...
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Online Banking Privacy Hack: Use 2 Browsers to Increase Your Security
Online shopping and banking is efficient and convenient, but it just takes one security breach for tons of personal information to get in the wrong hands. … Using a second browser dedicated exclusively to online shopping and banking can offer some added security from specific types of attacks, according to Justin Cappos, a computer security...
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Fox 5 Report On Hacking Smart Devices, Featuring Professor Justin Cappos (video)
Justin Cappos warns about the security risks inherent in smart devices such as mobile phones and connected appliances. “You have to ask yourself, is the risk worth the benefit,” he said.
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WNYU Radio Interview with Professor Nasir Memon (audio)
Is your credit card ripe for the picking? Some say it is, after crooks finish hijacking a record breaking $4 billion in credit card fraud by the end of 2016. WNYU’s Devin Knight spoke with computer engineering and network security professor Nasir Memon [of NYU Tandon School of Engineering] about ways to protect your info.
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How IBM’s Watson Will Change Cybersecurity
IBM captured our imaginations when it unveiled Watson, the artificial intelligence computer capable of playing—and winning—the “Jeopardy” game show. … “Generally we learn by examples,” says Nasir Memon, professor of computer science and engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. “We get an algorithm and examples, and we learn when we are able to look...
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Wanted: Smart Public Policy for Internet of Things Security
Increasingly, the Internet of Things has become a weapon in hackers’ schemes…Now, experts in the U.S. are asking regulators to step in. Calls for public policy to improve device security have reached a fever pitch following a series of high-profile denial-of-service attacks leveraged in part by unsuspecting DVRs, routers, and webcams. In October, hackers flooded the...
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Fox 5 Report About Email Security, Featuring Justin Cappos (Video)
Assistant Professor Justin Cappos of NYU Tandon speaks to reporters about email security.
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6 Threats To Your Identity, From Cyber To The Existential
Earlier this year I received a letter from the United States Office of Personnel Management, informing me that a “malicious cyber intrusion had been carried out against the U.S. Government.”…my Social Security number and other pieces of personal information were taken in the hack affecting 4.2 million government employees.
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A massive cyberattack blocked your favorite websites; FBI and Homeland Security are investigating
The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are investigating a massive cyberattack that stopped or slowed access to Twitter, Spotify, Amazon and other sites.…Hacking an email server or stealing user account information from a network is more targeted than a DDoS attack, which aims to cause widespread disruption, said Justin Cappos, a professor in...
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Yik Yak Users Not So Anonymous After All
…Now users of mobile app Yik Yak face the ignominy of being truly discoverable. At least that’s what a research team at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering suggests in a new paper… Keith Ross, a professor of computer science at Tandon and the dean of engineering and computer science at New York U’s...