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Only 18 full papers were accepted out of 175 submissions — acceptance rate of just 10.2%. Congrats to Babins.
Hien Truong, Xiang Gao, Babins Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena, N. Asokan, and Petteri Nurmi. Comparing and Fusing Different Sensor Modalities for Relay Attack Resistance in Zero-Interaction Authentication. In International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), to appear, March 2014.

Only 55 papers were accepted out of a total 293 submissions. Congrats to the SPIES student lead authors, Ajaya and Maliheh.

1. Ajaya Neupane, Nitesh Saxena, Keya Kuruvilla, Michael Georgescu, and Rajesh Kana. Neural Signatures of User-Centered Security: An fMRI Study of Phishing, and Malware Warnings.
2. Maliheh Shirvanian, Stanislaw Jarecki, Nitesh Saxena and Naveen Nathan. Two-Factor Authentication Resilient to Server Compromise Using Mix-Bandwidth Devices.

 
 

Please submit your best work: http://rfidsec2014.cis.uab.edu/

Saxena wins Google award for mobile security research, UAB News, by Meghan Davis

Prof. Saxena will be co-chairing the 10th Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDSec) 2014, to be to held at the University of Oxford, UK, July 2014. Details forthcoming. This is a major venue in the space of RFID and small device security and privacy.

Babins Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena and Justin Harrison. Wave-to-Access: Protecting Sensitive Mobile Device Services via a Hand Waving Gesture. International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS), November 2013, to appear.

Prof. Saxena received a $50,000 Google Faculty Research Award for the year 2013 based on his work on “Contextual Security.” Joint project with Prof. N. Asokan from Aalto University, Finland. This is the second Google award for Prof. Saxena following the 2011 award introducing the notion of “Playful Security.”

Congratulations to Song for successfully defending his PhD thesis proposal centered on game-oriented CAPTCHAs — next generation CAPTCHAs that may be playful (and not painful) for users.

Prof. Saxena will be serving as the co-leader of the Information Assurance/Security Pillar of UAB’s CIA-JFR Center.
 

A press-release on our new Cisco project to provide end-to-end security over VoIP communications.
UAB research to improve online communication security, Meghan Davis.