67385 external_news 1308310494 1653584976 With 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.

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