50966news12657504191475895860<![CDATA[Smartphone Worms, Malware in Researchers' Sights]]>2009-11-12T00:00:00-05:00With a $450,000 NSF grant, assistant professors Jonathon Giffin and Patrick Traynor of Computer Science hope to find ways for mobile phone carriers to monitor their networks for evidence of cyber attacks--and stop them. "While a single user might realize that a phone is behaving differently, that person probably won’t know why," Traynor says. "But a cell phone provider may see a thousand devices behaving in the same way and have the ability to do something about it." Source: NetworkWorld.com]]>47223http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/111109-smartphone-security-georgia-tech.html47223