Neural Markers of Cybersecurity: An fMRI Study of Phishing, and Malware Warnings
Ajaya Neupane, Nitesh Saxena, Jose O Maximo, and Rajesh K Kana
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), to appear, 2016.
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Manar Mohamed awarded outstanding graduating PhD student
Manar Mohamed has been recognized by the College of Arts and Sciences as the outstanding graduating PhD student in CIS. She will be receiving this award at the Honors Convocation in April end. Congratulations!
News coverage of our NDSS'16 paper
Is zero-effort computer security a dream? Breaking a new user verification system, UAB News, Feb 2014.
Based on work done in collaboration with researchers at Aalto University, Finland.
Paper accepted to ASIACCS 2016
Device-Enhanced Password Protocols with Optimal Online-Offline Protection.
Stanislaw Jarecki, Hugo Krawczyk, Maliheh Shirvanian and Nitesh Saxena
In ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), June 2016.
Acceptance rate for full papers = 20.9% (73/350)
Journal paper accepted to Brain Connectivity
Task-dependent Changes in Frontal-Parietal Activation and Connectivity during Visual Search
Jose O Maximo, Ajaya Neupane, Nitesh Saxena, Robert M Joseph, and Rajesh K Kana
Brain Connectivity, 2016.
This neuroscience paper studies visual search, a crucial component of many user-centered security tasks.
Research covered in MIT Technology
User Error Compromises Many Encrypted Communication Apps, MIT Technology Review, by Rachel Metz, December 14, 2015.
Paper accepted to FC 2016
A Sound for a Sound: Mitigating Acoustic Side Channel Attacks on Password Keystrokes with Active Sounds. Abhishek Anand and Nitesh Saxena. In Financial Cryptography and Data Security, February, 2016.
Paper accepted to CODASPY 2016
SMASheD: Sniffing and Manipulating Android Sensor Data. Manar Mohamed, Babins Shrestha and Nitesh Saxena. In ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), March 2016.
Paper accepted to NDSS 2016
NDSS is a top conference. Acceptance rate very low: 15% (60/389). Congratulations to Prakash!
Pitfalls in Designing Zero-Effort Deauthentication: Opportunistic Human Observation Attacks. Otto Huhta, Prakash Shrestha, Swapnil Udar, Mika Juuti, Nitesh Saxena and N. Asokan. In the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), to appear February 2016.
Prof. Saxena wins two NSF grants
http://www.uab.edu/news/faculty/item/6590-uab-faculty-receives-two-nsf-grants-for-cybersecurity-research