Month: January 2017

We are pleased to share that Professor Swarup Bhunia was recently awarded the title of Steven Yatauro Faculty Fellow for the excellence and dedication he has exemplified in his research efforts in the field of Electrical Engineering. The first to receive this honor through the University of Florida’s Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, Dr. Bhunia has been contributing […]

FICS Research Co-director, Prof. Patrick Traynor, who was also recently named the John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering at the University of Florida’s Computer & Information Science & Engineering Department (CISE), was selected to be a CFI fellow by the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion. The CFI Fellows Program, which was […]

Professor Daniela Oliveira will be delivering a talk entitled Security for Vulnerable Populations – On the Interplay of Weapons of Influence and Life Domains in Predicting Older Adults Susceptibility to Spear Emails at this year’s USENIX ENIGMA Conference in Oakland, California on January 31, 2017. Abstract: Spear-phishing emails are used as a central component in many […]

Professor Mark Tehranipoor and Cisco System’s Chief Security Officer (CSO), Edna Conway, will be delivering a joint talk entitled From Design to Resign: Securing the Electronics LifeCycle at this year’s RSA USA Conference in San Francisco, CA on February 16, 2017. The 2017 RSA USA Conference, which takes place from February 13-7, 2017, provides a public […]

In Biometric Security: Your Body as Your Password, Prof. Damon Woodard shares his thoughts on consumer concerns and the adaptability of biometric security features on mobile devices and how researchers and engineers can mitigate their concerns with improved design.