Payton Walker rocked his PhD quals: a synthesization of passive side channel & active command injection attacks on voice interfaces. His work exposes a wide gap–what’s shown via controlled experiments in prior work may not meet the real-world parameterizations of these attacks.
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Anuradha Mandal passes her Phd Quals
Anuradha Mandal passes her PhD quals with flying colors. Extensive literature survey of privacy leakage from brain+wrist sensors. Talking about companies trying to learn people’s medical conditions, these devices will likely be the most effective/accurate means of exploitation.
Paper accepted to WiSec 2020
Hacksaw: Biometric-Free Non-Stop Web Authentication in an Emerging World of Wearables. Prakash Shrestha and Nitesh Saxena In ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), July 2020.
Paper accepted to CODASPY 2020
CRAPE: A Privacy- Enhanced Crash Reporting System. Kiavash Satvat, Mahshid Hosseimi, Maliheh Shirvanian and Nitesh Saxena In ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), March 2020.
Mohammed Jubur passes PhD Qualifiers
Mohammed Jubur passes his PhD qualifier with flying colors. His literature survey critically questions the regular advice from security experts to use current password managers (and two factor authentication).
Prakash Shrestha Honored with the Dean’s Award
Prakash Shresthawins the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Graduating PhD Student at the Honors Convocation. Congratulations!
Prakash Shrestha defends his PhD dissertation
Prakash Shrestha successfully defended his PhD dissertation today (“New Authentiation and Privacy Paradigms in Mobile and Wearable Computing”). Great work, hard problems, many top papers (1 CCS, 1 NDSS, 2 Wisec, ACSAC, CSUR and more), Dean’s award, etc.
A $550,000 supplement on NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS) Grant
We have a $550,000 supplement on our ongoing grant NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS) Grant, 2016/17. This funding expands our program, and adds more students and admin support.
Research grant funded from Microsoft Research
SPIES lab has a research grant funded from Microsoft Research to study security warnings via the Neuro Security methodology introduced at the SPIES lab, September 2019
Two papers accepted to ACSAC 2019
- Challenge-Response Behavioral Mobile Authentication: A Comparative Study of Graphical Patterns and Cognitive Games
- Manar Mohamed, Prakash Shrestha and Nitesh Saxena. In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
- Defeating Hidden Audio Channel Attacks on Voice Assistants via Audio-Induced Surface Vibrations
- Chen Wang, Abhishek Anand, Jian Liu, Payton Walker, Yingying Chen and Nitesh Saxena. In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)