Conference

We just returned from the ISSNet Annual Workshop, held in Victoria BC this year.  Several students from the lab presented their work: Gerardo Reynaga gave a research talk about his work on the usability of captchas for mobile devices. Leah Zhang gave a research talk on her interactive comic for teaching about password guessing attacks. Vanessa Boothroyd presented a poster on her user study comparing older and younger adult's online behaviour and perception of online risk. Sana … [Read more...] about ISSNet Annual Workshop

Leah Zhang and Sana Maqsood were selected to attend the CRA-W Graduate Cohort worshop in Boston earlier this month.  Both presented posters of their research. Leah presented her work on interactive visualizations to teach about password guessing attacks and Sana presented work on a gesture-based password system for flexible mobile displays. … [Read more...] about CRA-W Graduate Cohort Workshop

We  recently attended ACSAC in Orlando, FL where Daniel McCarney presented our paper on Tapas, a smartphone based password manager. … [Read more...] about ACSAC 2012

I presented our eCrime paper, "Does Context Influence Responses to Firewall Warnings?",  last week in Puerto Rico.  We were happy to learn that we were finalist for the best paper award.  It was my first time attending and I wasn't sure what to expect. The conference had a number of very interesting presentations from academia, industry, and government, mostly relating to phishing, but also online security in general.  With just under 100 attendees, it was a good size for talking with people and … [Read more...] about APWG eCrime – Finalist for Best Paper