Releasing V.1.0.0 of a software project marks a significant milestone in its development. It’s an indication that it has reached a level of maturity where its developers can ensure its quality, and guarantee its security to potential adopters. On November 23, in-toto, a software framework developed at NYU Tandon in collaboration with researchers at New...
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Facebook ad ban is a bust as users saw more political ads after it went into effect.
In theory, Facebook’s ban on political advertising right before the election should have shielded voters from disinformation or political ads that were less than honest. But the ban contained a loophole. Any existing political coverage that had already been reviewed and approved was not removed. So, would-be influencers just made sure their ads were running...
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Cappos offers tips for avoiding identity theft in WalletHub special report
In a special report published December 8, 2020, WalletHub presented results of a survey entitled “2020’s States Most Vulnerable to Identity Theft & Fraud.” As part of the report, they questioned a number of cybersecurity experts, including NYU Tandon associate professor of computer science and engineering Justin Cappos, who offered advice on what individuals can...
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Edelson to Ad Platforms: Disinformation is a Security Problem
NYU Tandon Ph.D. candidate Laura Edelson has spent much of the past few years pulling back the curtain on political advertising through her work with the Online Political Transparency Project at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Therefore, it is not surprising that, when WiscPolitics reported in a December 8, 2020 article that U.S. Senator...
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From “Zoom Bombing” to Yahoo Finance “Company of the Year”—Cappos weighs in on how Zoom went from zero to hero
In a classic case of “It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish,” Yahoo Finance named Zoom its “Company of the Year” for 2020. The year began for the company with a number of high profile incidents where meetings and classrooms were interrupted in what came to be called “Zoom Bombing.” But the company’s...
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Karri, Gupta Assess Status Quo of Cybersecurity in Digital Manufacturing
As digital manufacturing continues to grow in popularity, it also becomes a more visible attack surface for hackers. Recently a team of researchers from NYU Tandon School of Engineering and Texas A&M teamed up to survey the cybersecurity risks in the emerging DM context, assess the impact on manufacturing, and identify approaches to better secure...
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NYU Tandon Ad Observatory Offers Insights on how Candidates Targeted Latinx Voters
During the presidential election, both candidates aggressively pursued the Latinx vote, particularly in battleground states of Florida and Arizona. As the Wall Street Journal reported in an article published on November 20, though Biden won a bigger share of this increasingly significant voting block, both nationally and in the states, Trump’s TV ad spending did...
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Cappos Comments on Cyber Threats to Hospitals
During these Covid days, one of the most vulnerable sectors in terms of cybersecurity is the health care industry—a market already coping with materials shortages and a new wave of infections. On October 28, the FBI Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a joint warning...
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“Signing Ceremony” Marks Start of TUF/PyPI Deployment via PEP 458
On October 30 at 11:15 AM, the Python Software Foundation live-streamed a special ceremony that marked the first practical steps in deploying The Update Framework (TUF) to The Python Package Index (PyPI). With this ceremony, a key was generated that bootstraps the TUF secure software update technology—a Linux Foundation project overseen by NYU Tandon Associate Professor Justin Cappos—to...
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Tandon Researchers Warn: 3-D Printed Materials are Vulnerable to Learning-Assisted Reverse Engineering Techniques
An October 1, 2020 article in Materials Today carries a warning about the burgeoning use of additive manufacturing technologies: the very ease of manufacturing composite parts via 3D printing also makes it very easy for counterfeiters to copy parts and to steal trade secrets from them. The story reports that creative hackers have been using...