Before Bjorn Borgen (BSME ’62) built a multibillion-dollar investment firm, before he settled out west in the Rocky Mountains, before he even set foot on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, he was a teenager working…
Every day, almost everyone in the United States uses a service, visits a website or interacts with a device that collects confidential data about their location, interests or activities. But…
Kassem Fawaz has a photo of himself as a 1- or 2-year-old playing with a keyboard; not surprisingly, as a kid, he loved spending time on his family’s computer and…
Kassem Fawaz is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Among other areas, he focuses on online privacy and security: how we interact with mobile devices, online applications, and…
Many internet users understand how to avoid digital pitfalls like catfishing, password hacking and malware. But not all the dangers in the digital world are so straightforward: For example, just browsing the web may set…
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and computer scientists has identified vulnerabilities in popular automation apps that can make it easy for an abuser to stalk individuals, track their cellphone activity, or even control…
In November 2024, a delegation from the U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM)—a unit responsible for U.S. Department of Defense cyberspace capabilities—visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Through a series of tours…
Digital privacy and security engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that both TikTok and Instagram extract different levels of personal and demographic data from user images, but can…
When you type a password or credit card number into a website, you expect that this sensitive data is protected by a system designed to keep it secure. That’s not…
Researchers are in an arms race with hackers to create better and better security systems to prevent data theft, including things like dual authentication password systems, thumbprints and retinal scans….
For the UW-Madison College of Engineering, 2022 was a year full of extraordinary achievements and tremendous growth. We advanced scientific knowledge on many fronts, improved the quality of people’s lives…