PhD Candidate Leah Zhang-Kennedy presented at the IDC 2016 conference in Manchester, UK. She presented her paper about children and parents' understanding of online privacy and a poster on her Cyberheroes interactive e-book. … [Read more...] about Leah presents at IDC 2016
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APWG eCrime Honorable Mention
We are happy to share that our paper entitled Smells Phishy? An educational game about online phishing scams won an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper award at this year's APWG eCrime conference. The paper describes Malak's work on the design, development, and evaluation of a board game to teach about phishing. … [Read more...] about APWG eCrime Honorable Mention
SERENE Cybercrime 2 tutorial
Yesterday, we hosted the 2nd annual SERENE-RISC Cybercrime tutorial. This year's edition focused on the financial sector and was co-located with APWG eCrime in Toronto. With 60 attendees, the event was completely full. Our speakers covered cybercrime from the perspective of law enforcement investigations, examined trends in cybercrime over the last several years, discussed the use of Bitcoin and e-currencies, detailed how High Yield Investment programs work, discussed a fraud investigation … [Read more...] about SERENE Cybercrime 2 tutorial
IDC 2016 WIP accepted
Leah Zhang-Kennedy's Work-In-Progress paper on the Cyberheroes e-book has been accepted at IDC 2016. The paper, entitled "Teaching with an Interactive E-book to Improve Children's Online Privacy Knowledge", will be available online soon. … [Read more...] about IDC 2016 WIP accepted
Hala presents at CRA-W
Last weekend, PhD Student Hala Assal presented a poster of her PhD research at the 2016 CRA-W Grad Cohort workshop. Hala is researching how to improve the software practices around security code reviews. … [Read more...] about Hala presents at CRA-W
SERENE Workshop: Cybercrime in the Financial Sector
On May 31, SERENE-RISC will be hosting a 1-day workshop on Cybercrime in the Financial Sector in Toronto. The event will be co-located with the APWG eCrime Summit. Registration to the Cybercrime workshop is free. We also have 10 scholarships available to Canadian students who would like to attend. Registration and scholarship details are available on the workshop webpage. … [Read more...] about SERENE Workshop: Cybercrime in the Financial Sector
SERENE-RISC Spring Workshop
The SERENE-RISC Spring Workshop will be held in Vancouver on April 27-28, 2016. To register or get more info, see the workshop webpage. … [Read more...] about SERENE-RISC Spring Workshop
IDC paper accepted
Our paper entitled "From Nosy Little Brothers to Stranger-Danger: Children and Parents’ Perception of Mobile Threats" by Leah Zhang-Kennedy, Christine Mekhail, and Yomna Abdelaziz, and Sonia Chiasson has just been accepted at IDC - the Interaction Design and Children Conference. We will traveling to the UK to present the paper at the conference in June. … [Read more...] about IDC paper accepted
APWG eCrime papers
We just received the happy news that three of our papers were accepted at the upcoming APWG 2016 eCrime conference. Leah and Malak will be presenting the papers in Toronto in June. The three papers are: (1) L. Zhang-Kennedy, E. Fares, S. Chiasson, R. Biddle. The Effects of Interactivity on Information Visualization about Internet Phishing Trends. (2) L. Zhang-Kennedy, S. Chiasson, P. van Oorschot. Revisiting Password Rules: Facilitating Human Management of Passwords. (3) M. Baslyman, … [Read more...] about APWG eCrime papers
CAN-CWiC participation
Several lab members had the opportunity to participate in the ACM Canadian Women in Computing conference, held in Ottawa Jan 22-23. Hala, Sana, and Reham gave a well-attended tutorial on Usable Security. Kalpana, Christine, Sana, and Hala each presented posters with some of their research. Sana won 3rd place overall in the poster competition! … [Read more...] about CAN-CWiC participation