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
Publication
new DESI journal article on Password Expiration
We are happy to announce that our journal paper, Quantifying the Security Advantage of Password Expiration Policies, will appear in an upcoming issue of Springer's Designs, Codes and Cryptography. A pre-print authors' copy is available on our publications page. The abstract of the paper is as follows: Many security policies force users to change passwords within fixed intervals, with the apparent justification that this improves overall security. However, the implied security benefit has … [Read more...] about new DESI journal article on Password Expiration
Gerardo presents at USEC
Gerardo Reynaga presented his paper on evaluating the usability of captchas on mobile devices at USEC 2015 in San Diego, California. … [Read more...] about Gerardo presents at USEC
USEC 2015 paper
Gerardo's latest work on mobile captchas has been accepted as a full paper at USEC 2015. Gerardo will present his paper next month in San Diego, California. … [Read more...] about USEC 2015 paper
New journal paper
Our journal paper: "User-Centred Authentication Feature Framework", stemming from Alain's PhD thesis, has been accepted for publication in the Information Management and Computer Security journal. It should appear later this year. … [Read more...] about New journal paper
CHI SRC paper accepted
Sana Maqsood submission to the 2014 CHI Student Research Competition has been accepted. She will present her paper, Shoulder Surfing Susceptibility of Bend Passwords, in Toronto in May. … [Read more...] about CHI SRC paper accepted
Persuasive Technology paper accepted
Leah Zhang-Kennedy's paper entitled "Stop clicking on "update later": Persuading users they need up-to-date antivirus protection" has just been accepted at Persuasive Technology 2014, which will be held in Padua, Italy in May. … [Read more...] about Persuasive Technology paper accepted
USEC paper accepted
Our paper, "Survey on the Fate of Digital Footprints after Death", was recently accepted at USEC 2014, co-located with NDSS. … [Read more...] about USEC paper accepted
Our work at ACM CCS
Fanny Lalonde-Levesque presented our paper on A Clinical Study of Risk Factors Related to Malware Infections at ACM CCS in Berlin, Germany. Sana Maqsood presented her work on bendable passwords for flexible displays … [Read more...] about Our work at ACM CCS
MobileHCI paper + workshop
This week we presented our MobileHCI paper in Munich, Germany: Improving user authentication on mobile devices: A Touchscreen Graphical Password. We also co-chaired the U-PriSM 2 workshop on the privacy and security of mobile devices. … [Read more...] about MobileHCI paper + workshop