Hovav Schacham (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Hovav Schacham

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Hovav Schacham, professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin, and his colleagues have developed a new way to secure web browsers that uses an existing tool called WebAssembly to shift some of the browser code into "secure sandboxes" that prevent malicious code from taking over the user's computer.

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