- Usability and Security Analysis of the Compare-and-Confirm Method in Mobile Push-Based Two-Factor Authentication
Mohammed Jubur, Nitesh Saxena and Faheem Reegu
In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2024
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New post-doctoral researcher joins the lab
Aftab Hussain recently joined the SPIES lab as a post-doctoral researcher. Welcome on-board!
Aftab Hussain is an incoming Post Doctoral Researcher at Texas A&M University, having recently completed his PhD defense at the University of Houston. He works on improving the security and reliability of large language models (LLMs) for source code, and his PhD dissertation is on Trojan Detection in LLMs of Code. His PhD research has been funded by a Cybersecurity Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education. He has recently presented his research at reputable venues in software engineering and AI, such as AIWare at FSE 2024 and SeT LLM at ICLR 2024. Aftab holds a Master’s degree from the University of California, Irvine in Software Engineering, where he published in top software engineering and security conferences such as ASPLOS and USENIX ATC.
Paper Accepted to ACM Computing Surveys 2024
- An In-Depth Analysis of Password Managers and Two-Factor Authentication Tools
Mohamed Jubur, Prakash Shreshtha, and Nitesh Saxena
In ACM Computing Surveys, 2024
Paper Accepted to IEEE S&P 2025
- BPSniff: Continuously Surveilling Private Blood Pressure Information in the Metaverse via Unrestricted Inbuilt Motion Sensors
Zhengkun Ye, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Yan Wang, Cong Shi, Yingying Chen, Nitesh Saxena
In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P; Oakland), May 2025.
Paper Accepted to Nature Human Behaviour
- Misinformation Research Needs Ecological Validity
James Crum, Cara Spencer, Emily Doherty, Erin Richardson, Sage Sherman, Amy W. Hays, Nitesh Saxena, Richard E. Niemeyer, Allison P. Anderson, Marta Čeko & Leanne Hirshfield
In Nature Human Behaviour, Oct 2024.
2 new PhD students join the SPIES lab
A warm welcome to two new members of the SPIES Lab, starting their PhD degrees in Fall 2024.
- Mahbub Alam
- Shaykh Siddique (co-advised with Irfan Khan)
Post-Doc Position Available
Post-Doctoral Researcher in Cybersecurity
The SPIES lab in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Texas A&M University, College Station is looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher. SPIES lab, directed by Dr. Nitesh Saxena, is one of the leading academic cybersecurity research labs, broadly focusing on computer and network security, user-centered security (including cognitive security), AI and ML security, and applied cryptography. The selected candidates will work with the PI, the students in the lab and a strong network of collaborators at A&M and other top-tier institutions and industry labs on cutting-edge projects of mutual interest. The candidate will have the opportunity to lead new research projects, define research agenda and work on research proposals submitted to federal and state organizations. As such this is a unique opportunity to enhance the candidate’s research and teaching careers through collaboration building, focused mentorship from the PI, student mentoring engagement and potential teaching opportunities. This is not merely a job but a rare professional development opportunity.
Annual salary: Starting at $72,000 yearly, commensurate to experience.
Duration: 2 years, renewable after the first year.
Start date: Immediate
Qualifications:
- PhD degree in Computer Science or a related field, completed by the start date.
- A strong academic record supported by publications in top-tier venues in cybersecurity and computer science.
Application materials (email to: Nitesh Saxena nsaxena@tamu.edu)
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research Statement
- Names of three references (letters will be requested only after an initial screening)
Paper accepted to ISC 2024
- News Reader: A News Interest Identification Attack using Single-Electrode Brainwave Signals
Anuradha Mandal, Cagri Arisoy and Nitesh Saxena
In the 27th Information Security Conference (ISC), October 2024
Paper Accepted to ACM CCS 2024
Breaching Security Keys without Root: FIDO2 Deception Attacks via Overlays exploiting Limited Display Authenticators
Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Mohammed Jubur, and Nitesh Saxena
In the ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 2024.
2 papers accepted to PST 2024
- Mobile Login Bridge: Subverting 2FA and Passwordless Authentication via Android Debug Bridge
Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad and Nitesh Saxena
In the International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), 2024. - Disease Detector: A Disease Inference Attack Using Brainwave Signals Associated with Body Postures
Anuradha Mandal and Nitesh Saxena
In the International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), 2024.