Under cyber attack: UH researchers look at how to catch a 'phisher'

Tuesday, May 16, 2017 - 15:02 in Mathematics & Economics

As cybersecurity experts scramble to stop another wave of ransomware and malware scams that have infected computers around the world, computer science experts at the University of Houston are "phishing" for reasons why these types of attacks are so successful. The research findings, presented last month at the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, are being used to develop the next generation of email filters to better identify and defend against this type of cyber attack.

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