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Damon McCoy


Professor
Computer Science and Engineering Department
Tandon School of Engineering
New York University

E-Mail: mccoy@nyu.edu
Office: 10.082 370 Jay St.

NYU

My research focuses on empirically measuring the security and privacy of technology systems and their intersections with society. Some of my current projects explore the socio-economics of e-crime, censorship evasion, anonymous communication, cyber-physical systems. More generally, I am interested in exploring and improving the security and privacy of large-scale systems.

Recent Publications
Stoking the Flames: Understanding Escalation in an Online Harassment Community
Kejsi Take, Victoria Zhong, Chris Geeng, Emmi Bevensee, Damon McCoy, Rachel Greenstadt
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 8, Issue CSCW1, 2024

Cyber democracy in the digital age: Characterizing hate networks in the 2022 US midterm elections
Andres Zapata Rozo, Alejandra Campo-Archbold, Daniel Diaz-Lopez, Ian Gray, Javier Pastor-Galindo, Pantaleone Nespoli, Felix Gomez Marmol, Damon McCoy
Information Fusion, 2024

"Say I'm in public... I don't want my nudes to pop up." User Threat Models for Using Vault Applications
Chris Geeng, Natalie Chen, Kieron Ivy Turk, Jevan Hutson, Damon McCoy
Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2024

What to Expect When You're Accessing: An Exploration of User Privacy Rights in People Search Websites
Kejsi Take, Jordyn Young, Rasika Bhalerao, Kevin Gallagher, Andrea Forte, Damon McCoy, Rachel Greenstadt
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2024

No Privacy Among Spies: Assessing the Functionality and Insecurity of Consumer Android Spyware Apps
Enze Liu, Sumanth Rao, Sam Havron, Grant Ho, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M Voelker, Damon McCoy
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2023

Propaganda Política Pagada: Exploring U.S. Political Facebook Ads en Español
Bruno Coelho, Tobias Lauinger, Laura Edelson, Ian Goldstein, Damon McCoy
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 (WWW '23), May, 2023, Austin, TX

Money Over Morals: A Business Analysis of Conti Ransomware
Ian W. Gray, Jack Cable, Vlad Cuiujuclu, Benjamin Brown, Damon McCoy
IEEE Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2022)

Cart-ology: Intercepting Targeted Advertising via Ad Network Identity Entanglement
ChangSeok Oh, Damon McCoy, Chris Kanich, Paul Pearce
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2022)

An Analysis of Terms of Service and Official Policies with Respect to Sex Work
Rasika Bhalerao and Damon McCoy
IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society 2022 (ISTAS 2022)

Ethics and Efficacy of Unsolicited Anti-Trafficking SMS Outreach
Rasika Bhalerao, Nora McDonald, Hanna Barakat, Vaughn Hamilton, Damon McCoy, and Elissa M. Redmiles
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2022)

``It feels like whack-a-mole'': User Experiences of Data Removal from People Search Websites
Kejsi Take, Kevin Gallagher, Andrea Forte, Damon McCoy, and Rachel Greenstadt
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, July 2022

Conspiracy Brokers: Understanding the Monetization of YouTube Conspiracy Theories
Cameron Ballard, Ian Goldstein, Pulak Mehta, Genesis Smothers, Kejsi Take, Victoria Zhong, Rachel Greenstadt, Tobias Lauinger, Damon McCoy
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference, May 2022

An Audit of Facebook's Political Ad Policy Enforcement
Victor Le Pochat, Laura Edelson, Tom Van Goethem, Wouter Joosen, Damon McCoy, Tobias Lauinger
Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, August 2022

Full Publication List
Students
PhD
Lexie Barthelemess
Bruno Coelho
Yuyuan Cui
Ian Gray
Mitch Haszard
Julia Kieserman
Cat Mai
Ann Malavet

Alumni
Rafael Martinez
Ian Goldstein
Paz Grimberg (PhD 2022) Co-Founder Schuss Capital
Cameron Ballard (MS 2022) Co-Founder RadiTube
Maxwell Aliapoulios (PhD 2022) Meta
Rasika Bhalerao (PhD 2022) Northeastern University
Laura Edelson (PhD 2022) NYU Research Scientist
Periwinkle Doerfler (PhD 2021) Meta
Ryan Brunt (MS 2019) Goldman Sacks->PayPal->Axon
Mohammad Rezaeirad (PhD 2019) Blue Cross Blue Shield -> Goldman Sacks
Mohammad Karami (PhD 2016) Google
Sean Palka (PhD 2015) Booz Allen Hamilton -> CrowdStrike
Jason Clark (PhD 2014) CMU SEI->Raytheon
Hitesh Dharmdasani (MS 2013) FireEye -> Informant Networks
Teaching
CS 468 (Secure Programming and Systems) Spring 2014 (GMU)
ISA 656 (Network Security) Fall 2013 (GMU)
ISA 656 (Network Security) Spring 2013 (GMU)
CS 795-004/ISA 797-002 (Cyber Crime) Fall 2012
ISA 656 (Network Security) Spring 2012