When using social networking sites from your phone, skip the native apps — which know far more about your life than web browsers ever could — and access the sites through your phone's browser. Also, use a password-protected screen lock to keep your phone secure. —Julian Cohen, Sophomore – Computer Science; Team: Capture the Flag Application Security
Posted October 12th, 2010
As part of Cyber Security Awareness Month in October, computer science and information technology students offer tips on how they keep their own personal information safe and dodge traps set by clever hackers. The students are members of NYU-Poly’s prestigious Information Systems and Internet Security (ISIS) Lab and the masterminds behind Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW), the most comprehensive set of challenges for elite computer science students.
On October 29, more than 300 finalists from across the continental United States will compete for prizes and scholarships on the NYU-Poly Brooklyn campus by solving the kinds of simulated security crises likely to emerge in an increasingly wired world.
