Virginia Tech computer scientist, student design award winning software to combat hacking

Monday, November 1, 2010 - 09:01 in Mathematics & Economics

One of the serious threats to a user's computer is a software program that might cause unwanted keystroke sequences to occur in order to hack someone's identity. This form of an attack is increasing, infecting enterprise and personal computers, and caused by "organized malicious botnets," said Daphne Yao, assistant professor of computer science at Virginia Tech.

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