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The Password Fallacy: Why Our Security System Is Broken, and How to Fix It
By Rachel Swaby, theatlantic.com, September 10th, 2012
For the few that haven't yet spotted technology journalist Mat Honan's story about his unfortunate hacking, here's the capsule version: What started as an attempt at his Twitter feed via an Amazon account security hole quickly escalated into several wiped devices, a gutted Gmail account...
Cyber attacks grow increasingly 'reckless,' says top official
By Lily Kuo, nbcnews.com, September 8th, 2012
Other nations are increasingly employing cyber attacks without "any sense of restraint," a top U.S. cybersecurity official said on Friday, citing "reckless" behaviors that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union would have dared at the height of Cold War tensions....
Game Innovation Lab, NYU-Poly
By Katherine Isbister, Interactions, September 1st, 2012
How do you describe your lab to visitors? The Game Innovation Lab is an interdisciplinary research and teaching space where we take games as an innovation challenge for advancing computer science and engineering as well as design. We designed the space to be highly reconfigurable, with affordances...
Creativity As Key To Engineering Innovation
By Erin Newton, livescience.com, August 31st, 2012
For a researcher who builds robots, Maurizio Porfiri credits his success to an unexpected source — literature. Paul Auster's novels in particular, with their scenes of Brooklyn, which is home to the researcher’s own Polytechnic Institute of New York University. As a teen...
Researchers Set Record For Detecting Smallest Virus
National Science Foundation, August 29th, 2012
Researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) have created an ultra-sensitive biosensor capable of identifying the smallest single virus particles in solution, an advance that may revolutionize early disease detection in a point-of-care setting and shrink test result wait...
Cathedral and Concert Inspire Record-Breaking Biosensor
genengnews.com, August 29th, 2012
Scientists are developing an ultrasensitive biosensor into a point-of-care diagnostic platform that they claim can detect and size the smallest virus particle, or potentially a single protein molecule, in a patient’s blood, urine, or saliva sample within minutes. The Whispering Gallery-Mode...
National Retailers Discover a Brooklyn Mall
By Julie Satow, nytimes.com, August 28th, 2012
The Fulton Street Mall in Downtown Brooklyn has been changing rapidly in recent years, as national retail chains flock to the mall, a shopping strip that once housed local sneaker stores and jewelry repair shops. The latest retailer to sign a lease is the furniture chain Raymour & Flanigan,...
Researchers set record for detecting smallest virus, opening new possibilities for early disease detection
phys.org, August 28th, 2012
Researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) have created an ultra-sensitive biosensor capable of identifying the smallest single virus particles in solution, an advance that may revolutionize early disease detection in a point-of-care setting and shrink test result wait...
Virus Detector Harnesses Ring of Light in 'Whispering Gallery Mode'
sciencedaily.com, August 24th, 2012
By affixing nanoscale gold spheres onto a microscopic bead of glass, researchers have created a super-sensor that can detect even single samples of the smallest known viruses. The sensor uses a peculiar behavior of light known as "whispering gallery mode," named after the famous circular...
International Student Competition 'CyberSecurity For The Next Generation' Kicks Off In North America With Call For Papers
www.darkreading.com, August 23rd, 2012
Woburn, MA – August 22, 2012 – Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces the start of the regional stage of its international student competition ‘CyberSecurity for the Next Generation 2013’. The first round, the North...
