We were at FC'12 earlier this month, in Bonaire. I presented our MVP paper in the main conference and was a panelist on a WECSR panel entitled "It's Not Stealing If You Need It: On the ethics of performing research using public data of illicit origin". Carlton Davis from the Polytechnique de Montreal presented our paper, Methodology for a Field Study of Anti-Malware Software, at the USEC workshop. In between conference activities, I got to do some scuba diving - how can you be in one of the top … [Read more...] about FC update
visiting UQO
I will be giving an invited talk at the Département d'Informatique et d'Ingénierie, Université du Québec en Outaouais this afternoon. … [Read more...] about visiting UQO
Visiting RIM and the University of Waterloo
I will be giving talks on usable security at the University of Waterloo and at RIM on Jan 19th and 20th. … [Read more...] about Visiting RIM and the University of Waterloo
January 18 office hours moved
My office hours for January 18 will be from 8:00-9:30am because I need to be off-campus later. … [Read more...] about January 18 office hours moved
Comp5900V classroom moved
We have moved to a larger classroom. Comp5900V - Computer Security and Usability will now be held in Southam Hall 318. … [Read more...] about Comp5900V classroom moved
USEC paper
Our short paper, Methodology for a Field Study of Anti-Malware Software, will be presented at the Workshop on Usable Security (USEC) held with Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC) in February 2012. This work done in collaboration with Fanny Lalonde Levesque, Carlton Davis, José Fernandez at the Polytechnique de Montreal and Anil Somayaji from Carleton. … [Read more...] about USEC paper
WECSR 2012 panel
I will be a member of a panel at the Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security Research (WECSR) held with FC 2012 in February. We will be discussing the ethics of performing research using public data of illicit origin. … [Read more...] about WECSR 2012 panel
Lab space
We have lab space! The CHORUS (Carleton's Human-Oriented Research in Usable Security) lab's new home is room 5115 Herzberg building. We are still setting up and getting organized, but I think this will be a great space. This is a very exciting week :) My new office is now ready too - room 5130 Herzberg, just down the hall from the lab. … [Read more...] about Lab space
FC short paper accepted
We are happy to announce that our short paper, The MVP Web-based Authentication Framework, has been accepted for publication at Financial Cryptography 2011. … [Read more...] about FC short paper accepted
TDSC paper
Our paper: Persuasive Cued Click-Points: Design, implementation, and evaluation of a knowledge-based authentication mechanism has recently been accepted for journal publication in the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). An earlier technical report is currently available and a pre-print of the journal paper will be available shortly. … [Read more...] about TDSC paper