"SETS Educational Initiative Announced in Google Cyber NYC Program"

Seven Cornell projects have been awarded funding by the Google Cyber NYC Institutional Research Program to improve online privacy, safety, and security. As part of this broader program, Cornell Tech has also launched the Security, Trust, and Safety (SETS) Initiative aimed at advancing education and research on cybersecurity, privacy, and trust and safety. In one of the selected projects from Cornell, titled "Making Hardware Comprehensively Secure Against Spectre — by Construction," computer science professor Andrew Myers will continue his work on designing secure and efficient hardware systems that are safe against Spectre and other "timing attacks." By analyzing the time required to perform computations, such attacks can steal passwords and other sensitive information from hardware. To prevent timing attacks, Myers is developing new hardware description languages, which describe digital circuit behavior or structure. This article continues to discuss the SETS Initiative and the new Cornell projects funded by the Google Cyber NYC Institutional Research Program.

Cornell Tech reports "SETS Educational Initiative Announced in Google Cyber NYC Program"

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