UAB has a story, been picked up by other media outlets, based on our Tap-Wave-Rub paper to appear at WiSec’13: UAB develops a simple defense for complex smartphone malware, by Kevin Storr.
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Prof. Saxena interviews with NBC 13
13 Investigates: WiFi thieves, by Linda White, NBC 13
Launching the Mobile Payment Platform Security project (with a teaser)
Mobile device credit/debit card readers are an emerging platform with already an enormous market. However, are these secure? What are the users’ security and privacy perceptions of these technologies? http://spies.cis.uab.edu/mobile-payment-platform-security/
Paper accepted at AsiaCCS 2013
Sensing-Enabled Channels for Hard-to-Detect Command and Control of Mobile Devices
Paper accepted at WiSec 2013
Tap-Wave-Rub: Lightweight Malware Prevention for Smartphones using Intuitive Human Gestures
Paper accepted at FC 2013
Exploring Extrinsic Motivation for Better Security: A Usability Study of Scoring-Enhanced Device Pairing
Paper accepted at CGAT 2013
An Investigation of the Usability of a Game for Secure Wireless Device Association
Journal paper accepted at IEEE TDSC
Location-Aware and Safer Cards: Enhancing RFID Security and Privacy via Location Sensing
Journal paper accepted at IEEE TIFS
Acoustic Eavesdropping Attacks on Constrained Wireless Device Pairing
Prof. Saxena to serve as the co-director of UAB's master's program in security
Starting January 2013, Prof. Saxena will be co-directing the MS program in Computer Forensics and Security Management (CFSM), which is a joint program offered by Computer and Information Sciences, Justice Sciences, and Management, Information Systems, and Quantitative Methods. This is the second graduate level security program Prof. Saxena will be co-leading, followed by NYU-Poly’s MS program in Cyber-Security.