Publication

Gerardo Reynaga's paper, The Usability of Captchas on Smartphones, has been accepted at SECRYPT 2013. Gerardo will present his work in Reykjavik, Iceland at the end of July. … [Read more...] about SECRYPT paper accepted

We are happy to announce that Hsin-Yi Chiang's paper entitled Improving user authentication on mobile devices:  A Touchscreen Graphical Password was just accepted at MobileHCI, held in Munich Germany August 27-30, 2013. … [Read more...] about Mobile HCI paper accepted

Leah Zhang's short paper on security education visualizations has been accepted as a Research Note at the GRAND Annual Conference. … [Read more...] about GRAND Research Note

We were happy to hear that our paper has been accepted at AACE ELearn 2012. The conference will be held in Montreal October 9-12. Supporting Learning of an Unfamiliar Authentication Scheme Alain Forget, Sonia Chiasson, Robert Biddle … [Read more...] about ELearn paper accepted

Our paper on users' understanding and responses to security warnings was just accepted at APWG eCrime. The eCrime summit will be held in Puerto Rico on October 23-24, 2012. The paper is entitled: Does Context Influence Responses to Firewall Warnings? By Muhammad Mahmoud, Sonia Chiasson, and Ashraf Matrawy … [Read more...] about APWG eCrime paper accepted

Our Usenix Security paper: Security and Usability Challenges of Moving-Object CAPTCHAs: Decoding Codewords in Motion is now available … [Read more...] about Usenix Security 2012 paper on captchas posted

We received the happy news that our ACSAC 2012 paper was accepted. Tapas: Design, Implementation, and Usability Evaluation of a Password Manager Daniel McCarney, David Barrera, Jeremy Clark, Sonia Chiasson, P.C. van Oorchot … [Read more...] about ACSAC paper accepted

We were very happy to hear that our Usenix Security'12 paper, "Security and Usability Challenges of Moving-Object CAPTCHAs: Decoding Codewords in Motion", has been accepted. The paper was a joint effort with Yi Xu, Jan-Michael Frahm, and Fabian Monrose from the University of North Carolina. On the Carleton side, Gerardo Reynaga, Paul van Oorschot, and I worked on the project. A copy of the paper will be available shortly. … [Read more...] about Usenix Security '12 paper accepted

Our short paper, Methodology for a Field Study of Anti-Malware Software, will be presented at the Workshop on Usable Security (USEC) held with Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC) in February 2012. This work done in collaboration with Fanny Lalonde Levesque, Carlton Davis, José Fernandez at the Polytechnique de Montreal and Anil Somayaji from Carleton. … [Read more...] about USEC paper

We are happy to announce that our short paper, The MVP Web-based Authentication Framework, has been accepted for publication at Financial Cryptography 2011. … [Read more...] about FC short paper accepted