Sonia Chiasson has been awarded $100,000 from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)'s Leaders Opportunity Fund. This award will be matched by the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation under the Ontario Research Fund and industry for a total grant of $250,000. These funds will be used to acquire research infrastructure for the CHORUS lab. CHORUS is a centre for multi-disciplinary research on improving computer security and privacy for end-users and for experts. This … [Read more...] about $250,000 in CFI, ORF, and industry infrastructure funding
Invited presentation at TU Darmstadt
Sonia gave an invited presentation on "Understanding and improving mental models of computer security" at TU Darmstadt in Germany today and visited the SecUSo – Security, Usability and Society research group. … [Read more...] about Invited presentation at TU Darmstadt
Summer term ending
Sarah and Michael recently finished their summer workterms as undergraduate research assistants in the lab. Both have been active members of the lab for the last few months. Sarah worked on graphic and web design aspects of our improving mental models project. Michael worked on a password rehearsal game to help user memorize randomly assigned text passwords. … [Read more...] about Summer term ending
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
Leah successfully defends her Masters thesis
Leah Zhang-Kennedy has successfully defended her Masters thesis, Improving Mental Models of Security Through Information Visualization, and completed her degree. She is the first to complete the Masters of HCI program. … [Read more...] about Leah successfully defends her Masters thesis
IEEE eCrime paper accepted
We are happy to announce that our paper, Password Advice Shouldn’t Be Boring: Visualizing Password Guessing Attacks, was accepted for publication at this year's IEEE eCrime Research Summit. … [Read more...] about IEEE eCrime paper accepted
ACM CCS poster accepted
Sana will be presenting a poster on "Passwords on Flexible Display Devices" at this year's ACM CCS conference in Berlin. … [Read more...] about ACM CCS poster accepted
Gerardo presents at SECRYPT
At the end of July, Gerardo presented his paper, The Usability of Captchas on Smartphones, at SECRYPT in Reykjavik, Iceland. … [Read more...] about Gerardo presents at SECRYPT
CCS 2013 paper accepted
We were happy to learn that our ACM CCS 2013 submission has been accepted for publication: "A Clinical Study of Risk Factors Related to Malware Infections" F. Lalonde-Levesque, J. Nsiempba, J. Fernandez, S. Chiasson, A. Somayaji. … [Read more...] about CCS 2013 paper accepted
Vanessa presents her paper at PST
Vanessa recently presented her paper, Writing down your password: Does it help?, at the PST conference in Tarragona, Spain. … [Read more...] about Vanessa presents her paper at PST