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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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With the help of a $450,000 NSF grant, assistant professors Patrick Traynor and Jonathon Giffin will focus on detecting and repairing mobile botnet attacks, rather than preventing them. Since mobile phones typically lack security features found on desktop computers, such as antivirus software, we need to accept that the mobile devices will ultimately be successfully attacked, Giffin said. Therefore our research focus is to develop effective attack recovery strategies.
