We were very happy to hear that our Usenix Security'12 paper, "Security and Usability Challenges of Moving-Object CAPTCHAs: Decoding Codewords in Motion", has been accepted. The paper was a joint effort with Yi Xu, Jan-Michael Frahm, and Fabian Monrose from the University of North Carolina. On the Carleton side, Gerardo Reynaga, Paul van Oorschot, and I worked on the project. A copy of the paper will be available shortly. … [Read more...] about Usenix Security '12 paper accepted
U-PriSM workshop at SOUPS – CFP
Jaeyeon Jung from Microsoft and I are co-chairing a workshop on the Usable Privacy and Security of Mobile devices (U-PriSM). It will be held on July 11, 2012, in conjunction with SOUPS. The submission deadline for short papers and position papers is May 8, 2012, see the CFP for details. … [Read more...] about U-PriSM workshop at SOUPS – CFP
ISSNet Smartphone Workshop
I organized a small workshop today at Carleton on the topic of Smartphone Security and Privacy. Serge Egelman visited from the University of California Berkeley and he gave the keynote talk. He presented on the usable security of Android permissions. Other presenters included graduate students from Carleton and from the University of Toronto. … [Read more...] about ISSNet Smartphone Workshop
CRC announced
Yesterday the Federal government made the official Canada Research Chair announcements. I am happy to say that I have been awarded the Canada Research Chair in Human Oriented Computer Security. The Carleton press release is here … [Read more...] about CRC announced
FC update
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