In a very unusual turn of events, three tech industry heavyweights recently demanded more regulation from the U.S. Federal Government. Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM have all announced that they are pulling their facial recognition technologies from law enforcement agencies unless some form of regulation is implemented to fight instances of discrimination. The problem, according to...
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Tandon & Duke Researchers Develop Genetic “Barcodes” for DNA Samples
As the phrase suggests, DNA fingerprinting is a technique that can identify markers in human DNA that are as unique to an individual, organism or disease as the more common identifying marks for which it is named. In part because it only requires a small amount of material, it has blossomed into a nearly $10 billion global...
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NYU and CUNY Partner with Indian Institutions for new Additive Manufacturing Internship
Dr. Nikhil Gupta, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and a member of the Center for Cybersecurity at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) International Research Experience for Students (IRES) grant to establish a US-India internship program in the area of additive manufacturing (AM). The grant, which funds a partnership between...
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CCS Researcher Edelson Calls for Greater Facebook Transparency in USA Today Editorial
In an editorial published in USA Today on May 27th, Laura Edelson, a Ph.D. student at Tandon, called out the limitations of Facebook’s voluntary efforts to reveal who is behind political ads, noting that they lack, “adequate information on how ads are directed toward specific demographics and groups of people.” Co-authored with Sheila Krumholz, executive...
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Staying Cool: NYU Tandon Faculty Member Dvorkin Testifies Before NYC Council Committees
On May 26, NYU Tandon Assistant Professor Yury Dvorkin provided testimony before representatives of several New York City Council Committees about the city’s cooling needs for the upcoming summer. Though air conditioner use increases demand on the city’s power grid every summer, Dvorkin warned Council representatives that the number of individual air conditioners working during...
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CCS Faculty Member Cappos Shares Advice for (Cyber) Safer Shopping During COVID
While the doors to our COVID-19 quarantine are beginning to open, it is likely people will continue to do much of their shopping online. To avoid a a future “cyber pandemic,” CompareCards, a credit card service of the Lending Tree loan company, asked NYU Tandon Associate Professor Justin Cappos to provide some tips for more...
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Meet the “Creepware” Lurking in your Devices
A recent study has identified a new threat to consumers using cell phones or other personal devices—”creepware.” Defined as apps used primarily by non-experts to mount interpersonal attacks, these apps were not detectable by existing spyware detection techniques. That is, until a team of researchers that included Assistant Professor Damon McCoy of Tandon’s Computer Science...
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NYU Study Reveals Over-confident Attitudes Can Create Susceptible Phishing Targets
If you think you could never fall for a cyber scam or a phishing attack, you may actually be increasing the odds that you will be susceptible to this type of crime. A recent study conducted by a team of researchers from the NYU Department of Psychology and the NYU Tandon Department of Electrical and...
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Study finds “Backdoors” and other vulnerabilities in more than 12K Android Apps
How secure is your phone or tablet? Probably not as secure as you think. A recent study of more than 150,000 Android applications found some 12,700 contained hidden backdoor-like behavior, including secret access keys, master passwords, and secret commands. A team of academics from Europe and the U.S., including CCS faculty member Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, created...
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Responding to COVID 19, CCS Ph.D. Student Becomes the Voice of Cybersecurity for Nepal
Proving that CCS students are quick to recognize and respond to real-world problems, Samrat Acharya, an NYU Ph.D. student from Nepal is lending his professional expertise to help his home nation adapt to increased internet usage during the COVID 19 crisis. Acharya, a student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was concerned because...