While researchers have developed many tools, techniques, and protocols for improving
software security, exploits and breaches are only becoming more frequent. Some of this gap …

Cash payment is still king in several markets, accounting for more than 90% of the payments
in almost all the develo** countries. The usage of mobile phones is pretty ordinary in this …

Potentially dangerous cryptography errors are well-documented in many applications.
Conventional wisdom suggests that many of these errors are caused by cryptographic …

Rural microfinance must contend with the triple challenges of isolation, small‐scale
transactions, and risk. These challenges result in information asymmetries and transaction …

Financial abuse—the control of a survivor's access to and use of financial resources—is
highly prevalent in intimate partner violence (IPV) cases. Based on the reports of 158 …

The proliferation of digital financial innovations like mobile money has led to the rise in
mobile subscriptions and transactions. It has also increased the security challenges …

Cryptographic API misuse is responsible for a large number of software vulnerabilities. In
many cases developers are overburdened by the complex set of programming choices and …

Secure software development is a challenging task requiring consideration of many possible
threats and mitigations. This paper investigates how and why programmers, despite a …

Mobile banking apps, as one of the most contemporary FinTechs, have been widely adopted
by banking entities to provide instant financial services. However, our recent work …

Mobile banking apps, belonging to the most security-critical app category, render massive
and dynamic transactions susceptible to security risks. Given huge potential financial loss …