Tag: FICS Research

Patrick Traynor, Ph.D., the John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering and associate professor at the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, has been named a Fellow by the Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI) at Accion. Traynor came to the University of Florida Department of Computer and Information Science and […]

The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida has named Patrick Traynor, Ph.D., the John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering. Traynor came to the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) in 2014 as an associate professor focusing on security and networks. John and Mary Lou […]

Ransomware – what hackers use to encrypt your computer files and demand money in exchange for freeing those contents – is an exploding global problem with few solutions, but a team of University of Florida researchers says it has developed a way to stop it dead in its tracks. The answer, they say, lies not […]

A new study by Lexis Nexis, a digital risk management company, says mobile purchase fraud is on the rise. The study reports that the money stolen through mobile transactions went up 70 percent last year when compared to 2013. Concerns over mobile transactions have made it to congress and President Barack Obama has proposed a […]