CCS and ESORICS call for papers still open….submit your BESTest work 🙂
Dr. Saxena is serving on the program committee of several top security conferences in 2015: Usenix Security, CCS, ESORICS and RFIDSec. Please submit your best work!
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UAB Mix Feature on our Work
Paper accepted to Percom
Only 15 full papers were accepted out of 196 submissions — acceptance rate of just 7.7%. Top conference in the field of pervasive computing. Congrats to Babins, Manar and Andy.
Babins Shrestha, Manar Mohamed, Anders Borg, Nitesh Saxena and Sandeep Tamrakar. Curbing Mobile Malware based on User-Transparent Hand Movements. International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), to appear, March 2015.
Extensive media coverage on our VoIP Security work
Our work on VoIP Security (Crypto Phones) received extensive media coverage. Some articles here: http://spies.cis.uab.edu/media-outreach/#voipSec
Song Gao successfully defends his PhD dissertation
Song Gao came out of his dissertation defense with flying colors. Excellent work on next generation CAPTCHAs. Congratulations to the newly-cooked Doctor :-)…who’s next?
Journal paper accepted to PMC
Using Contextual Co-Presence to Strengthen Zero-Interaction Authentication: Design, Integration and Usability. Hien Thi Thu Truong, Xiang Gao, Babins Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena, N. Asokan and Petteri Nurmi. In Elsevier Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), to appear, 2014.
Nice media coverage on our CAPTCHA work
Beyond CAPTCHA: A Better Way to Tell Humans and Robots Apart, OZY, Sep 29, 2014
Saxena awarded nearly $75,000 to study CAPTCHA mechanisms
Can CAPTCHAs be less annoying? News coverage on our CAPTCHA work
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
Jonathan Voris takes up a faculty position
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 🙂