Audio deepfakes are becoming ubiquitous – blurring the line between fact and fiction – but UF researchers are working to develop methods to help the public navigate this new technological terrain. We’ve all heard about audio deepfakes and voice cloning… Read More
By Patrick Traynor, Ph.D., professor and John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering, and Logan Blue, a Ph.D. student. This story originally appeared in The Conversation. Imagine the following scenario. A phone rings. An office worker answers… Read More
Computing has never been more important to our daily lives than it is today. Videoconferencing has become ubiquitous for almost the entire population and access to technology and virtual worlds have become a necessity for all rather than a privilege… Read More
Patrick Traynor, Ph.D., the John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering, was recently awarded a $1.7 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate. The research and development project, titled “Deploying Defenses… Read More
A team of University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) researchers won the Distinguished Paper Award at the 27th USENIX Security Symposium. Nolen Scaife, a doctoral researcher; Christian Peeters, a Ph.D. student; and Patrick Traynor, The… Read More