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Professor, student create new anti-hacking software

Monday, November 1, 2010

Daphne Yao, an assistant professor of computer science at Virginia Tech, along with her former student, now computer science graduate student at Stanford University, Deian Stefan, have won the best paper award at the CollaborateCom 2010 International Conference on Collaborative Computing. The paper look at authentication software designed to better tell humans from bots, according to a Phys Org article.

The software uses a biometric mode called keystroke dynamics. This biometrics states that how a user types is unique to each person.


The kind of attacks the software, called Telling Human and Bot Apart (TUBA), focuses on synthetic forgery attacks. Essentially, in TUBA’s finding malware attacks on computers via keystroke dynamics it simply looks for unrecognizable biometric patterns on the computer and halts the activity.

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Administrators at eduKan, a consortium of six Kansas colleges created to offer online courses, are using BioSig-ID, a software only biometric solution, to discourage cheating among students involved in the schools’ distance education programs. The technology enables the colleges to determine that the student taking the course and the test is the same student who registered for the course.

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Three University of California, Riverside scholars have received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to launch a program that will use facial recognition software to identify unknown subjects in portrait art.

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AU10TIX, a subsidiary of ICTS International N.V., and the UK subsidiary of 3M have entered into an agreement to provide a ID document capture and authentication hardware and software products that will be able to cross-reference and manage records across a wide range of national and international identification cards.

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Medical researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) who are trying to develop a mobile app that can identify medication have received a T1 Catalyst Mobile Health Translational Project Award from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at UCSF.

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March 20, 2012 1:18 PM

Nice....

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