CHORUS Lab

Carleton's Human Oriented Research in Usable Security Lab

 

comp5115 research project highlighted

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Borke Obada, a Master's student in Computer Science, took COMP5115 Security & Usability in Fall 2015. Her final research project involved a qualitative user study exploring privacy and security habits of people using online dating sites. Students in the class are strongly encouraged to undertake real projects research as their final class assignment. Her research was recently highlighted the Carleton Graduate Newsletter. … [Read more...] about comp5115 research project highlighted

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

Cyberheroes — interactive e-book now available

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Our new Cyberheroes website is now live at http://www.versipass.com/edusec/cyberheroes/ Cyberheroes is an interactive e-book for 7-9 year olds, introducing them to the subject of online privacy.  It is freely available as a web-based application through Game Salad and as an iPad app.  Links for both are on the Cyberheroes webpage.   … [Read more...] about Cyberheroes — interactive e-book now available

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

Invited talk – Conference Board of Canada

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Sonia recently gave an invited talk for the Conference Board of Canada's Cybersecurity: The Human Factor conference, held in Ottawa on February 10-11. The talk was titled Designing for Security: Users are not the weakest link. The talk explored the prevailing belief that user are the weakest link in the security chain and how this is counterproductive to achieving increased security, then discussed alternatives with a higher chance of improving security. … [Read more...] about Invited talk – Conference Board of Canada

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