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...
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Phishing Fears Rise with COVID Concerns, according to CCS Index of Cyber Security
The increase of people working at home due to “stop the spread” initiatives at city and state levels could lead to a corresponding rise in phishing schemes, according to the April 2020 report of the Index of Cyber Security. The sentiment-based index, which uses direct polling of security practitioner experts around the world to chart...
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NYU Abu Dhabi Researchers Reveals the “Dragonfly Handshake” is Not a Secure Grip
The “dragonfly handshake”—a nickname for a wi-fi security protocol thought to provide strong protection from hacking—may not be as firm as previously thought. Two security researchers, Mathy Vanhoef of NYU Abu Dhabi and Eyal Ronen of Tel Aviv University, have found that the WPA-3 protocol can indeed by breached, despite claims that its method of...
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Slowing the spread of fake news by adding credibility indicators
A study conducted by researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and co-lead by CCS co-founder Dr. Nasir Memon, found pairing headlines with credibility alerts, from fact-checkers, the public, news media, and AI, can reduce a readers’ intention to share such posts. An article about the study, published on April 29, 2019, notes that...
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NYU Tandon “Bridge Program” Adds New Destinations
Since 2016, the “NYU Tandon Bridge” program has provided individuals without STEM backgrounds the necessary technical grounding to move on to the school’s M.S. programs in computer science, data science, cybersecurity, and other high-growth tech fields. Now, as Dr. Nasir Memon announced in an article posted on LinkedIn, the bridge has gotten a bit wider....
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People or Pods? Tandon/Drexel team finds social media figures do not always add up
When likes and shares can be monetized, it is perhaps not surprising to find out that these digital affirmations can, and are, being manipulated. In a paper published in the proceedings of the World Wide Web conference in April, NYU Tandon professors Damon McCoy and Rachel Greenstadt, along with collaborators from Drexel University, presented the...
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Are U.S. computer networks ready for the surge of at home workers?
NYU Tandon professor Justin Cappos appeared on CNBC on March 10 to answer questions about the impact of millions of workers now logging in from home. Watch the clip here.
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Summing up CSAW ’19
The 2019 CSAW finals were held November 6–8, and the latest edition of the most comprehensive student-run cybersecurity event on the planet was — yet again — one to remember. Read a complete wrap-up of the 2019 event by clicking here.
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Tandon’s Cybersecurity M.S. program ranks top five in the U.S.
NYU Tandon’s MS in Cybersecurity program, well-known for having the lowest tuition of any cybersecurity master’s degree program in New York City, has recently been recognized as one of the top five cybersecurity master’s programs by CSO, a leading provider of news, analysis and research on security and risk management.