Our paper on factors affecting software security -- developers' motivations and how they acquire security knowledge --- has just been accepted for publication. H. Assal, S.G. Morkonda, M.Z. Arif, S. Chiasson (2025). Software security in practice: knowledge and motivation. Oxford Journal of Cybersecurity … [Read more...] about Journal of Cybersecurity paper accepted
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HCII 2025 paper accepted
Our survey about individuals' perceptions of remote healthcare technology has just been accepted for publication at HCII 2025. Daniela will present the work in Sweden in June. D. Napoli, H. Molyneaux, H. Fournier, S. Chiasson (2025) Exploring User Perspectives on Data Collection, Data Sharing Preferences, and Privacy Concerns with Remote Healthcare Technology. HCI International, Springer … [Read more...] about HCII 2025 paper accepted
ACM TOPS paper accepted
Our paper, from Vathsan's PhD work, has just been published at ACM TOPS: S.G. Morkonda, S. Chiasson, and P.C. Van Oorschot (2025) “Sign in with ... Privacy”: Timely Disclosure of Privacy Differences among Web SSO Login Options. ACM Trans. Privacy & Security (TOPS). https://doi.org/10.1145/3711898 … [Read more...] about ACM TOPS paper accepted
NSPW 2024 paper presented
PhD student Max Keleher presented his work on IoT sustainability and security at NSPW 2024. The published paper is: M. Keleher, D. Barrera, S.Chiasson (2024). Balancing Security and Longevity: Benefits of Modular IoT Infrastructure. New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), ACM. … [Read more...] about NSPW 2024 paper presented
COSE journal paper accepted
Vathsan's paper has just been accepted for publication in Elsevier's Computers & Security journal. The COSE version is available here and an arXiv pre-print is here. S.G Morkonda, S. Chiasson, P.C. van Oorschot (2024). Influences of displaying permission-related information on web single sign-on login decisions. Computers & Security (COSE), Elsevier. … [Read more...] about COSE journal paper accepted
Anna presents at INTERACT 2023
PhD student and CHORUS collaborator Anna-Lena Theus presented our joint paper on privacy and smart streetlights in York, UK at the INTERACT 2023 conference. The paper is “A solution to a problem that didn’t exist?”: Exploring Attitudes Towards Smart Streetlighting Systems by Anna-Lena Theus and Sonia Chiasson. … [Read more...] about Anna presents at INTERACT 2023
Two EuroUSEC 2023 papers accepted
We will be presenting two papers at EuroUSEC 2023: Kazma Chaudhry, Anna-Lena Theus, Hala Assal, and Sonia Chiasson. “It’s not that I want to see the student’s bedroom…”: Instructor Perceptions of e-Proctoring Software. Khadija Baig, Daniela Napoli, and Sonia Chiasson. A comparison of users’ and non-users’ perceptions of health and ancestry at-home DNA testing. … [Read more...] about Two EuroUSEC 2023 papers accepted
Students attend HC2P Summer School
Daniela, Charlotte, and Sami all attended this year's Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership (HC2P) Summer School held in Ottawa and Montreal, where they spent two weeks learning and researching on the topic of ransomeware. With their colleagues, they produced this year's summer report on Decrypting Ransomware: analyzing and addressing the threat in the Canadian Context. … [Read more...] about Students attend HC2P Summer School
PST 2023 paper accepted
Paulina Chametka will be presenting work from her undergraduate thesis at Privacy, Security, and Trust conference in August. Her paper is: Paulina Chametka, Sana Maqsood, and Sonia Chiasson. Security and Privacy perceptions of mental health chatbots. … [Read more...] about PST 2023 paper accepted
INTERACT 2023 paper accepted
Anna-Lena Theus's paper, “A solution to a problem that didn’t exist?”: Exploring Attitudes Towards Smart Streetlight Systems, was accepted for publication at INTERACT 2023. Anna will present the work in York, UK at the end of August. … [Read more...] about INTERACT 2023 paper accepted