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
ACSAC 2011
We are happy to announce that we will be presenting several research projects at ACSAC 2011: Max Hlywa, a member of our usable security group, will be presenting a full paper entitled: Facing the Facts about Image Type in Recognition-Based Graphical Passwords by Hlywa, Patrick, and Biddle. And we have two posters presenting some of our very recent work: AuctionHero: a game to model security in context by Chiasson, Modi, and Biddle User-Choice Patterns in PassTiles Graphical Passwords by … [Read more...] about ACSAC 2011
ASIMM presentation
I will be giving a presentation on usable security to the industry group Association de Sécurité de l'Information du Montréal Métropolitain (ASIMM) on Monday September 19, 2011 at the Loews hotel in downtown Montreal. … [Read more...] about ASIMM presentation
E-Learn 2011
I will be attending E-Learn in October where I will present a brief paper on the initial design of our Auction Hero game to teach about online computer security, work done in collaboration with Manas Modi and Robert Biddle. While at the conference, I will also lead a roundtable discussion on uses of e-learning technologies for teaching computer security. … [Read more...] about E-Learn 2011