{"id":16814,"date":"2015-08-24T10:08:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T14:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/?p=16814"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:33:13","slug":"uf-cybersecurity-experts-featured-in-wall-street-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/news\/cise\/uf-cybersecurity-experts-featured-in-wall-street-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"UF cybersecurity experts featured in Wall Street Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Florida cybersecurity experts Patrick Traynor and Kevin Butler expressed concerns over mobile banking applications in a recent Wall Street Journal article. Both professors \u2013 among the first hired last year as part of the university\u2019s Preeminence initiative \u00ad\u2013 work in the department of computer and information science and engineering. They were in Washington presenting a paper related to their concerns at the USENIX security conference.<\/p>\n<p>The security flaws were found in six of seven popular mobile-money apps used primarily in developing countries, and threaten to leave some of the poorest populations \u2013 and those who depend almost entirely on mobile infrastructure \u2013 exposed to fraud and theft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2015\/08\/11\/researchers-find-security-flaws-in-developing-world-money-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more in the Wall Street Journal.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Cybersecurity at UF<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Cybersecurity is a critical concern for citizens, industry and government. Intrusions and attacks compromise everything from our personal identities to our national security, from our ATMs to our financial markets. UF is committed to anticipating cyber threats, and to reducing vulnerabilities. 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We design robust cyber infrastructure to counter cyber threats, and educate the public on how they can protect themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineering professors Traynor and Butler speak out about vulnerabilities in mobile money apps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,61,57],"tags":[153,187],"class_list":["post-16814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cise","category-research-innovation","category-stories","tag-cybersecurity","tag-fics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UF cybersecurity experts featured in Wall Street Journal - 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