We attended the GRAND annual conference in Montreal last week. Elizabeth Stobert was selected to give a presentation about passTiles, while Leah Zhang had as poster presenting her work on teaching users about password guessing attacks. … [Read more...] about GRAND 2012 Conference
U-PriSM deadline extended
We have extended the deadline for the U-PriSM workshop to May 18, 2012. If you are working on the Usable Privacy and Security of Mobile devices, consider submitting a paper and joining us at SOUPS in Washington, DC on July 11, 2012. … [Read more...] about U-PriSM deadline extended
Carleton’s All Things Digital showcase
Carleton hosted the "All Things Digital" showcase, with more than 120 industry and government visitors. The event was held in the HCI and VSIM buildings, so we demo'ed our HCI and usable security research in the Hotsoft Lab. … [Read more...] about Carleton’s All Things Digital showcase
ISSNet Annual Workshop
The ISSNet Annual Workshop was held in Kingston, ON last week. Several students from the lab presented their work. Hsin-Yi Chiang presented a poster about his work on authentication for mobile devices. Vanessa Boothroyd received honourable mention for her poster on the usable security of writing down passwords. Alain Forget gave talk on his learnability of authentication systems. … [Read more...] about ISSNet Annual Workshop
Usenix Security '12 paper accepted
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