information security

ATLANTA – October 5, 2010 – Phishing scams are making the leap from email to the world’s voice systems, and a team of researchers in the Georgia Tech College of Computing has found a way to tag fraudulent calls with a digital “fingerprint” that will help separate legitimate calls from phone scams.

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Pindrop Security, a new company based on technology developed by School of Computer Science researchers to verify caller ID, has won the 2011 GRA/TAG Business Launch Competition.

Patrick Traynor, assistant professor in the School of Computer Science, and colleagues have programmed smartphones to use their accelerometers to detect and decipher strokes on nearby keyboards with up to 80 percent accuracy.

ATLANTA – Oct. 18, 2011 – It’s a pattern that no doubt repeats itself daily in hundreds of millions of offices around the world: People sit down, turn on their computers, set their mobile phones on their desks and begin to work. What if a hacker could use that phone to track what the person was typing on the keyboard just inches away?

ATLANTA – Oct. 11, 2011 – The year ahead will feature new and increasingly sophisticated means to capture and exploit user data, as well as escalating battles over the control of online information that threatens to compromise content and erode public trust and privacy. Those were the findings announced by the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) in today's release of the Georgia Tech Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2012.

Patrick Traynor, assistant professor in the School of Computer Science, and Ph.D. student Chaitrali Amrutkar discovered that mobile browsers are inconsistent in implementing the standards for security indicators recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium.

ATLANTA – Dec. 5, 2012 – How unsafe are mobile browsers? Unsafe enough that even cyber-security experts are unable to detect when their smartphone browsers have landed on potentially dangerous websites, according to a recent Georgia Tech study.