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NJIT ACM Chapter Hosts JerseyCTF Cybersecurity Competition

Friday, April 30th, 2021
NJIT's student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery hosted its first cybersecurity competition last month, with one of its own members on the winning team among more than 600 participants from 26 countries. The event, called JerseyCTF, was a capture-the-flag event where entrants test ...

NJIT and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Launch New Institute for Future Technologies

Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, President Daniel Chamovitz of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and President Joel S. Bloom of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have unveiled a partnership that will create a world-class Institute for Future Technologies in New Jersey. Two p...

Computing Professor Makes Artificial Intelligence More Reliable

Monday, February 1st, 2021
Artificial intelligence software used in everything from cancer research to vehicle navigation sometimes relies on unreliable data-sorting algorithms that can lead to serious real-world problems, but an NJIT expert is working on new ways to identify the causes and find possible solutions. Many of t...

NJIT Researchers Help Prevent Cyberattacks From Software Supply Chain

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020
An open-source tool that cryptographically protects the layout of your software code supply chain is now available from researchers at NJIT, New York University and Purdue University, bolstering the type of weakness exploited in the recent cyberattack on the commercial SolarWinds monitoring applicat...

CyberCorps Graduate Student Offers Insight to Security of Video Chat Apps

Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
The year 2020 will be remembered in software circles as the time when video conferencing became mainstream because of health risks associated with COVID-19, so NJIT graduate student Ramon Salvador decided to learn about video conferencing security for his final project, a requirement of Ying Wu Coll...

Computing Student Wins Fulbright Award for Security Research

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
Matthew Cherrey never traveled overseas — no high school trip to Europe, no semester abroad as an undergrad, no spring breaks in exotic, far away locales — but he always wanted to do so, particularly to Germany where his family has roots. Now he's getting an opportunity, representing NJIT next year ...

NJIT@JerseyCity Expands with New Graduate Programs in Computing

Friday, July 17th, 2020
Three master's degrees and five graduate certificate programs are now available to Ying Wu College of Computing students in the NJIT​ @​JerseyCity location. Programs at the Exchange Place location opened in fall 2019 offering a Master of Science in Data Science along with graduate certificates in b...

"Knock Codes" For Smartphone Security Are Easily Predicted, Researchers Say

Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
Smartphone owners who unlock their devices with knock codes aren't as safe as they think, according to researchers from NJIT, the George Washington University (GW) and Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Knock codes work by letting people select patterns to tap on a phone’s locked screen. LG popular...

NJIT Security Expert Applies Startup's Tech to COVID-19 Tracing

Wednesday, April 15th, 2020
The healthcare process of identifying who traveled close to contagious patients, known as contact tracing, typically assumes a lack of privacy — but NJIT cybersecurity expert Kurt Rohloff said his software is a good match to fix this. Rohloff is known in the computer security field for his work in ...

High Schoolers Come to NJIT to Learn About Virtual Reality and Research

Wednesday, December 11th, 2019
Students from the Hunterdon County Computer Science and Applied Engineering Academy came to NJIT on Nov. 22 to participate in a study of the impact of virtual reality (VR) on learning and knowledge retention.. The event, organized by NJIT professor Lori Watrous-deVersterre, had two goals. First, to...