Keyboard Acoustic Side Channel Attacks: Exploring Realistic and Security-Sensitive Scenarios. Tzipora Halevi and Nitesh Saxena
International Journal of Information Security, to appear, 2014.
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Research covered in CNBC
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
Paper accepted to CCS 2014
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 wins Comcast research award
Dr. Saxena won a Comcast research award, 2014 for his work on secure CAPTCHAs. The award is a $75,000 unrestricted gift.
Interview with Dr. Nitesh Saxena, Beyond the Computer Password
RFIDSec program announced
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 covers our contextual security work
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'14 accepted papers posted
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/
Starting new exciting journey…
SPIES student, Lutfor Rahman, just graduated with an MS degree, and is now taking up a Lead Developer position at Marvin Technology, a Birmingham based IT company. Congratulations and all the best! Now, at least we do not have to worry about him hacking into our brains 🙂