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Coverage of our work on next generation CAPTCHAs by UAB news (where it got over 11,000 unique hits).
Some of the other media venues where the story was picked up:

• Research Unveils Improved Method To Let Computers Know You Are Human , Slashdot, Aug 19, 2014
• New Research Presents an Improved Method to Let Computers Know You Are Human , ACM TechNews, Aug 20, 2014
• Game-Like CAPTCHA Lets Computers Know You Are Human, Communications of the ACM, Aug 26, 2014
• Better than CAPTCHA: Improved method to let computers know you are human, ScienceDaily, Aug 25, 2014
• Researchers Devise a Better Way to CAPTCHA ,CIO, Sep 11, 2014
• CAPTCHAs Might Soon Be Out , IQpill, Aug 26, 2014
• New research presents an improved method to let computers know you are human, TECHSPOT, Aug 24, 2014
• DCG CAPTCHA – УЛУЧШЕННЫЙ СПОСОБ УЗНАТЬ КОМПЬЮТЕРУ ЧТО ПЕРЕД НИМ ЧЕЛОВЕК, TECHNEWS.RU, Aug 27, 2014
• Onderzoekers ontwikkelen betere CAPTCHA-variant, security.nl, Aug 19, 2014
• Ученые создали новый метод распознавания человека компьютером Источник, Центр, Aug 20, 2014
• Better than CAPTCHA: Improved method to let computers know you are human, Technocrat Epiphanies, Aug 26, 2014

Jon Voris, a former SPIES PhD graduate, is starting this Fall as an Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences at the New York Institute of Technology. Congratulations! Who’s next 🙂

Keyboard Acoustic Side Channel Attacks: Exploring Realistic and Security-Sensitive Scenarios. Tzipora Halevi and Nitesh Saxena
International Journal of Information Security, to appear, 2014.

Our research on relay resistant zero-interaction authentication covered in CNBC (based on our Percom’14 paper)
Forget passwords: This is the future of logging in, CNBC, Aug 25, 2014, by Hamza Ai

Wiretapping via Mimicry: Short Voice Imitation Man-in-the-Middle Attacks on Crypto Phones. Maliheh Shirvanian and Nitesh Saxena. In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), to appear, November 2014.
Top conference; acceptance rate = 19.5% (114/585). Congratulations to Maliheh!

Dr. Saxena won a Comcast research award, 2014 for his work on secure CAPTCHAs. The award is a $75,000 unrestricted gift.

http://www.crushplate.com/2014/06/interview-with-dr-nitesh-saxena-beyond.html
 
 

A focused program covering exciting work in security and privacy of RFID, Internet-of-Things, and Body Area Networking: http://rfidsec2014.cis.uab.edu/conference-program/

Passwords no more? UAB researchers develop mechanisms that enable users to log in securely without passwords, by Katherine Shonesy, UAB News. Coverage on our Percom’14 and FC’14 papers. Chasing our dream for a “password free” world 🙂

RFIDSec 2014 conference that Dr. Saxena is leading has just announced its list of accepted papers. Exciting program in the making.
http://rfidsec2014.cis.uab.edu/program/