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
GRAND Research Note
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
Hsin-Yi Chiang successfully defends his Masters thesis
We are very happy to announce that Hsin-Yi successfully defended his Masters thesis this morning. He is the first Masters student to officially graduate from the CHORUS lab. For his thesis, he designed and implemented a graphical password scheme for mobile devices. … [Read more...] about Hsin-Yi Chiang successfully defends his Masters thesis
COMP5900V – Winter 2013 Computer Security & Usability
I will be teaching a graduate level course on usable security this semester. It will be held as a 3-hour seminar-style class bright and early on Monday mornings starting January 7, 2013 in the new River Building. … [Read more...] about COMP5900V – Winter 2013 Computer Security & Usability
ACSAC 2012
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
APWG eCrime – Finalist for Best Paper
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
Alain Forget, PhD
We are pleased to announced that today Alain Forget successfully defended his PhD thesis - A World With Many Authentication Schemes. Congratulations Dr. Alain! Alain started a post-doctoral fellowship at Carnegie-Mellon University earlier this month, continuing work in usable security. … [Read more...] about Alain Forget, PhD
ELearn paper accepted
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
APWG eCrime 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
Usenix Security 2012 paper on captchas posted
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