Hovav Shacham
Attackers Can Syphon Crypto Keys with Newly Discovered Attack
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06/20/2022 - Written by Marc G Airhart | CNS News
Shacham Receives NSF Grant for Cybersecurity Research
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11/10/2021 - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced four new flagship funding awards through the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, including for a project focused on securing web browser operations led by Hovav Shacham, professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin.
New Sandboxing Approach in Web Browser Increases Security
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02/25/2020 - UPDATE (Jan. 18, 2021): The new approach to securing web browsers described below is now part of the latest version of the Firefox browser, available to all users.
Dr. Hovav Shacham Awarded ACM CCS Test-of-Time Award 2019
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11/20/2019 - The 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) took place in London last week. Over the years, CCS has established itself as a high standard research conference in the field of information security, and is one of the "big four" security conferences in the world. Each year since 2012, CCS has recognized one or two papers from the conference a decade earlier with a test-of-time award.
Two New Professors Join UTCS Faculty
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02/15/2018 - We are delighted to welcome two new faculty to UT Computer Science in 2018.