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Adobe is a Sponsor for the Nation’s Largest Student Cyber Security Competition
By Rajat Shah, Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET) Blog, December 4th, 2012
ASSET team members Karthik Raman, Bronwen Matthews and I recently attended the NYU Poly CSAW IX Cyber Security competition in Brooklyn, New York. The annual event first took place in 2003 and has since grown from a small, local cyber security competition to a worldwide event. This year, more than...
Dumbo Techs Off
By Alexandra Wolfe, modernluxury.com, December 3rd, 2012
As a serial tech entrepreneur, Aaron Shapiro always thought he’d end up in Silicon Valley. But when he became CEO of a digital marketing agency, Shapiro, along with a host of other New York tech-company founders, instead brought Silicon Valley to Dumbo. His company, Huge, and Etsy, the online...
Online safety may expose children to greater risk from predators
By Gillian Burdett, examiner.com, November 30th, 2012
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), designed to protect children from online predators, may increase this danger, according to a study released today, Nov. 30, by the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly). COPPA, enacted in 1998 and enforced by the Federal...
Rating a Mayor of New York
By Sam Roberts, The New York Times, November 30th, 2012
New Yorkers have an uncanny knack for electing the right mayoral candidate at the right time. In the racially charged urban climate agitated by a bombastic Edward I. Koch, the balm-throwing David N. Dinkins presented himself in 1989 as an ideal alternative: a black politician campaigning for...
Kids Who Lie About Their Age on Facebook Endanger Their Friends
By Katie J.M. Baker, www.jezebel.com, November 29th, 2012
Despite the best intentions of Facebook employees, government officials, parents, and even teens themselves, all of whom want to make sure kids are super safe online, minors reveal a dangerous amount of information on Facebook, according to a new study. It may take a village to raise a child, but,...
For Children, a Lie on Facebook Has Consequences, Study Finds
By Somini Sengupta, The New York Times Technology, November 28th, 2012
A federal law intended to protect children’s privacy may unwittingly lead them to reveal too much on Facebook, a provocative new academic study shows, in the latest example of how difficult it is to regulate the digital lives of minors. Facebook prohibits children under 13 from signing up for...
Hoboken Oceanographer Dreams of Slowing Hurricanes Before Landfall
By Chris Glorioso, nbcnewyork.com, November 21st, 2012
What if Sandy could have been diverted from the East Coast? What if scientists could have cooled the ocean underneath the storm clouds, depriving the hurricane of the warm energy it needed to keep barreling toward New York and New Jersey? Dr. Alan Blumberg, an oceanographer with the Stevens...
Fifteen NYC-based enterprise startups to keep an eye on
By Jonathan Lehr, PandoDaily, November 21st, 2012
In a post for TheNextWeb back in April, I wrote about why the enterprise matters and deserves your attention. It’s funny how much has changed since then in the enterprise tech ecosystem. Now, enterprise tech is the trend du jour to discuss. What’s not being discussed however, is how...
High School Girls Hack into Male-Dominated Cybersecurity Industry
By Janet Upadhye, dnainfo.com, November 20th, 2012
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Fifteen-year-old Darby Olex-Memoli has never known a world without the Internet. In her earliest memories, she played games like "Putt Putt Saves the Zoo" on the Internet. At age 12 she created her Facebook profile. By 13 she had her own laptop, and as a freshman...
Why Patents Won't Protect You
entrepreneur.com, November 19th, 2012
In this Inside the Incubators series, investors at NYU-Poly's incubator in lower Manhattan offer tips for growth. Brian Cohen, an early investor in Pinterest, says entrepreneurs should get over their fears of being ripped off. It's a misnomer that patents will protect you, he says. If you...
