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- CV19 SelfDefense Mobile Phone App now available for download
- Women are pretending to be men on Instagram to circumvent algorithmic blocking
- Breaking New Ground in Human-Computer Interactions Research
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CV19 SelfDefense Mobile Phone App now available for download
To open college campuses safely amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, we recommend the CV19 SelfDefense Android Mobile Phone App. This research project was funded by Florida State University (CC-045704, 5/11/20 – 8/18/20). The first iteration just became available. You can download … Continue reading
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Women are pretending to be men on Instagram to circumvent algorithmic blocking
Gender deception is widespread in social media. Instagram has been hiding photos and videos that it considers to be vaguely “inappropriate” without explaining what specific kind of content that includes or alerting affected users. Such posts are algorithmically blocked from … Continue reading
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Breaking New Ground in Human-Computer Interactions Research
Shuyuan Mary Ho conducts research on topics such as trusted human-computer interactions, cyber insider threats, online deception, and more. Dr. Ho also research on the use of computational intelligence for the safety and security of the Internet. See the whole … Continue reading
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Hackers New Tactic: Locking All the Doors at an Expensive Hotel
The ransom demand arrived one recent morning by email, after about a dozen guests were locked out of their rooms at the lakeside Alpine hotel in Austria. The electronic key system at the picturesque Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt had been infiltrated, … Continue reading
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DARPA’s Master Plan to Spot Facebook Terrorists?
There are plenty of lunatics on Facebook, Twitter and other social media. Not to mention trolls, haters and other assorted unpleasantness. Most are harmless. A few are terrorists and insurgents who would love nothing better than to kill U.S. troops. … Continue reading
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5 Ways The Cyber-Threat Landscape Shifted In 2016
Change is the one constant in the threat landscape, and cyber events of 2016 served as a reminder of that aphorism in multiple and often painful ways. Whether it was stealing tens of millions of dollars from financial institutions, locking … Continue reading
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With shifts in national mood come shifts in the words we use…
In the wake of the election (and our Thanksgiving dinner), it’s clear that American society has been fractured. Negative emotions are running amok, and countless words of anger and frustration have been spilled. If you were to analyze any news … Continue reading
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Is it impossible to stop deceptive news?
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on Friday night posted a message on his Facebook page about so-called fake news and the controversy over his company’s role in carrying it to hundreds of millions of users. “The bottom line is: We take misinformation … Continue reading
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Facebook Considering Ways to Combat Fake News
After more than a week of accusations that the spread of fake news on Facebook may have affected the outcome of the presidential election, Mark Zuckerberg published a detailed post Friday night describing ways the company is considering dealing with … Continue reading
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NSA Missed ‘Big Red Flags’ in Leak Suspect’s Behavior
Year after year, both in his messy personal life and his brazen theft of classified documents from the National Security Agency, Harold T. Martin III put to the test the government’s costly system for protecting secrets. And year after year, … Continue reading
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