Sonia Chiasson

I presented our eCrime paper, "Does Context Influence Responses to Firewall Warnings?",  last week in Puerto Rico.  We were happy to learn that we were finalist for the best paper award.  It was my first time attending and I wasn't sure what to expect. The conference had a number of very interesting presentations from academia, industry, and government, mostly relating to phishing, but also online security in general.  With just under 100 attendees, it was a good size for talking with people and … [Read more...] about APWG eCrime – Finalist for Best Paper

The 4th ISSNet Summer School was held at Dalhousie University in Halifax this year. Each year, ISSNet graduate students from across Canada get together for a week of workshops about computer security. It is an opportunity to network with other security researchers and to learn about aspects of security that they may not have previously studied. This year, they learnt about a variety of topics from operating systems, to Canadian privacy laws, data mining and visualization, and industry security … [Read more...] about ISSNet Summer School – Halifax version

Several people from our usable security research group went to SOUPS in Washington, DC this year. Gerardo presented a poster about our upcoming USENIX Security Captcha paper. He also presented a talk about some on-going captcha work on mobile devices at the U-PriSM workshop. The U-PriSM workshop was a success, with over 80 people attending. We kept the presentations short to allow for discussion, and this seems to have worked well. The audience had many questions, comments, and suggestions … [Read more...] about SOUPS and U-PriSM