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
Conference
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
MUM 2015 conference
Hala Assal presented our paper What’s the deal with privacy apps? A comprehensive exploration of user perception and usability in Linz, Austria at the MUM 2015 conference . Hala took part in the Doctoral Consortium, presenting her work on collaborative security code reviews. … [Read more...] about MUM 2015 conference
MUM2015 paper accepted
We are happy to hear that our paper: What’s the deal with privacy apps? A comprehensive exploration of user perception and usability by Hala Assal, Stephanie Hurtado, Ahsan Imran and Sonia Chiasson has been accepted at Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM). Hala will be presenting the work in Linz, Austria at the end of November. … [Read more...] about MUM2015 paper accepted
SOUPS at Carleton
On July 22-24, we happily hosted approximately 180 attendees to this year's SOUPS conference in the River Building at Carleton. Photos of the conference are available here: http://tinyurl.com/soups-share1 and http://tinyurl.com/soups-share2 … [Read more...] about SOUPS at Carleton
NSPW 2015 paper
We are happy to hear that our paper, Choose Your Own Authentication, was accepted for publication at NSPW 2015. Robert Biddle will be presenting the work at the conference in Twente, The Netherlands, in September. … [Read more...] about NSPW 2015 paper
SOUPS 2015 presentations
Michael Lutaaya will be presenting a SOUPS 2015 poster, Password Rehearsal Memory Games, describing his work on a quick game to help users memorize a randomly generated password. Michael worked on this project as a first year undergraduate researcher in the lab. PhD student Leah Zhang-Kennedy will be presenting a SOUPS 2015 poster entitled Geo-Phisher: The Design of a Global Phishing Trend Visualization Tool based on a project completed with Elias Fares, an HCI student. Their tool … [Read more...] about SOUPS 2015 presentations
SOUPS paper accepted
Our paper, entitled User Perceptions of Sharing, Advertising, and Tracking, was accepted at SOUPS 2015. Farah started this research while taking the Computer Security & Usability graduate course, then continued the work in the following months. She explores users' opinion and preferences of online behavioural advertising across a variety of websites and tracking prevention tools. … [Read more...] about SOUPS paper accepted
BHCI paper accepted
We are happy to announce that Gerardo Reynaga's paper, "Heuristics for the Evaluation of Captchas on Smartphones" has been accepted at British HCI 2015. Gerardo will be presenting his work at the conference in July. … [Read more...] about BHCI paper accepted
SERENE April 2015 workshop
The SERENE-RISC April workshop was held at the Museum of Nature this week. It brought together over a hundred industry, academic, and government participants interested in building a healthy, secure, Canadian digital ecosystem. … [Read more...] about SERENE April 2015 workshop