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PRISM Researchers work with Gainesville-based Peaceful Paths to educate the public about domestic abuse and cybersecurity Domestic abuse affects millions of people every year, often in unseen and deeply personal ways, and online threats toward victims can be particularly harmful. To address this reality locally, the University of Florida’s Center for Privacy and Security for Marginalized […]

  PRISM audio deepfake study could help cochlear implant users     When University of Florida doctoral student Magdalena Pasternak realized the voice urging her to take a phone survey was not human, she not only hung up but was left with nagging questions, leading her to launch a research project. “The caller requested a […]

  “Listen carefully: FICS Research’s Study could lead to better deepfake detection”     A recent FICS study has finished the largest study on audio deepfakes where 1,200 humans were challenged to identify real audio messages from digital creations.  This study analyzed how well humans classify deepfakes, why they make their decisions on their classifications, […]

Outstanding Early-Career Researcher Award for Elissa Redmiles Congratulations to Dr. Elissa Redmiles on receiving the Outstanding Early-Career Researcher Award from the ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC). This award is designed to recognize early-career researchers who have demonstrated exceptional contributions in the field of computer security and privacy. Elissa’s work has […]

Podcast: Personalized Noise, Decaying Photos, and Digital Forgetting Link to the Podcast

Recognizing the threat of AI Generated Intimate Content While freedom of sexual expression is important for relationship intimacy as well as body image, it is critical for adults depicted in intimate content to have consented to its creation and/or sharing. Non-consensual creation, sharing, or the threat of either of those things is called image-based sexual […]

How Considering Security and Privacy Needs of Marginalized and Vulnerable Populations Leads to More Inclusive Technology Design When technologists design software, who are they thinking about when they are considering who will use their solution? Dr. Mattea Sim examined this question in a recently accepted paper presented at the New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW 2023), […]

ShareMeNOT: Detecting and Defending Against Third Party Tracking on the Web Dr. Franzi Roesner and Dr. Yoshi Kohno, from the University of Washington, were honored to receive the Test of Time Award, for work on their 2012 paper, studying web tracking. The paper introduced ShareMeNOT, which was later incorporated into the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

PRISM Team Leads $7.5 Million NSF Project A team comprised of  three faculty from the University of Florida (UF), two, from the University of Washington (UW), two from Indiana University Bloomington (IU), and one  from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, were awarded a $7.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to […]