CHORUS Lab

Carleton's Human Oriented Research in Usable Security Lab

 

Conference

SERENE Cybercrime 2 tutorial

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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

SERENE Workshop: Cybercrime in the Financial Sector

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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

IDC paper accepted

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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

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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

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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