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Paper accepted to ACM TOPS

Posted on January 5, 2021 by nsaxena

Two-Factor Password-Authenticated Key Exchange with End-to-End Password Security.
Stanislaw Jarecki, Mohammed Jubur, Hugo Krawczyk, Maliheh Shirvanian, and Nitesh Saxena. In ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, 2020.

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Two papers accepted to AsiaCCS 2021

Posted on October 25, 2020 by nsaxena

The acceptance rate for papers accepted in the first cycle = 17.8% (28/157)

    • EchoVib: Exploring Voice Authentication via Unique Non-Linear Vibrations of Short Replayed Speech
      Abhishek Anand, Jian Liu, Chen Wang, Maliheh Shirvanian, Nitesh Saxena and Yingying Chen
      In ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), June 2020.
    • HVAC: Evading Classifier-based Defenses in Hidden Voice Attacks
      Yi Wu, Xiangyu Xu, Payton Walker, Jian Liu, Nitesh Saxena, Yingying Chen and Jiadi Yu
      In ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), June 2020.

 

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NSF SaTC Medium grant funded

Posted on September 2, 2020 by nsaxena

Dr. Saxena has a new NSF SaTC Medium (Transition to Practice) grant funded:

NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Program Medium Grant, “Intrusion-Tolerant Outsourced Storage for Cyber-Infrastructure”, $900,000, Oct 2020 – Sep 2023, Lead PI.  Collaborative project with: UC Irvine.

This project will investigate the design and development of next generation, secure storage and authentication services that will be fully resistant against intrusions onto the services themselves.

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3 papers accepted to ACSAC 2020

Posted on August 18, 2020 by nsaxena

  • IvoriWatch: Exploring Transparent Integrity Verification of Remote User Input Leveraging Wearables
    Prakash Shrestha, Zengrui Liu and Nitesh Saxena.
    In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2020.
  • Voicefox: Leveraging Inbuilt Transcription to Enhance the Security of Machine-Human Speaker Verification against Voice Synthesis Attacks
    Maliheh Shirvanian, Manar Mohammed, Abhishek Anand and Nitesh Saxena.
    In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2020.
  • WearID: Low-Effort Wearable-Assisted Authentication of Voice Commands via Cross-Domain Comparison without Training
    Cong Shi, Yan Wang, Yingying Chen, Nitesh Saxena and Chen Wang.
    In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2020.

 

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Anuradha Mandal passes her Phd Quals

Posted on August 10, 2020 by nsaxena

Anuradha Mandal passes her PhD quals with flying colors. Extensive literature survey of privacy leakage from brain+wrist sensors. Talking about companies trying to learn people’s medical conditions, these devices will likely be the most effective/accurate means of exploitation.
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Paper accepted to WiSec 2020

Posted on May 11, 2020 by nsaxena

Hacksaw: Biometric-Free Non-Stop Web Authentication in an Emerging World of Wearables. Prakash Shrestha and Nitesh Saxena In ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), July 2020.
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Paper accepted to CODASPY 2020

Posted on December 12, 2019 by Zengrui Liu

CRAPE: A Privacy-Enhanced Crash Reporting System.
Kiavash Satvat, Mahshid Hosseini, Maliheh Shirvanian and Nitesh Saxena
In ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), March 2020.
[pdf]

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Two papers accepted to ACSAC 2019

Posted on August 23, 2019 by Zengrui Liu

  • Challenge-Response Behavioral Mobile Authentication: A Comparative Study of Graphical Patterns and Cognitive Games
    Manar Mohamed, Prakash Shrestha and Nitesh Saxena.
    In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2019
  • Defeating Hidden Audio Channel Attacks on Voice Assistants via Audio-Induced Surface Vibrations
    Chen Wang, Abhishek Anand, Jian Liu, Payton Walker, Yingying Chen and Nitesh Saxena
    In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2019

 

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Paper accepted to ISPEC 2019

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Zengrui Liu

CATCHA: When Cats  Track Your Movements Online
Prakash Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena, Ajaya Neupane and Kiavash Satvat
International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC), November, 2019

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4 papers accepted to PST 2019

Posted on June 21, 2019 by Zengrui Liu

 

  • Stethoscope: Crypto Phones with Transparent & Robust Fingerprint Comparisons using Inter Text-Speech Transformations
    Maliheh Shirvanian, and Nitesh Saxena
    International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), August, 2019
    [pdf]
  • ZEMFA: Zero-Effort Multi-Factor Authentication based on Multi-Modal Gait Biometrics
    Babins Shrestha, Manar Mohamed and Nitesh Saxena
    International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), August, 2019
    [pdf]
  • Compromising Speech Privacy under Continuous Masking in Personal Spaces
    S Abhishek Anand, Payton Walker and Nitesh Saxena
    International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), August, 2019
    [pdf]
  • Brain Hemorrhage: When Brainwaves Leak Sensitive Medical Conditions and Personal Information
    Ajaya Neupane, Kiavash Satvat, Mahshid Hosseini and Nitesh Saxena
    International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), August, 2019
    [pdf]

 

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Recent News

  • 2 full papers accepted to WiSec 2023 January 30, 2023
  • Cybersecurity Program Led By Dr. Saxena Ranks Best! January 26, 2023
  • EarSpy in Media January 26, 2023
  • Dr. Saxena is a Co-PI on Thematic AI Lab November 28, 2022
  • Paper accepted to PMC 2022 November 28, 2022
  • Paper accepted to ICISC 2022 November 28, 2022
  • A New Grant from NSA October 17, 2022
  • Dr. Saxena appointed as a Dean’s Research Fellow October 17, 2022
  • Dr. Saxena to lead a new SaTC Medium project on Election Security July 16, 2022
  • SPIES Lab’s 12th PhD Graduate — Anuradha Mandal July 16, 2022
  • SPIES Lab’s 11th PhD Graduate – Payton Walker July 6, 2022
  • Two papers accepted to PST 2022 June 9, 2022
  • Paper accepted to ICDCS 2022 April 4, 2022
  • Paper accepted CHIL 2022 March 19, 2022
  • 2 papers accepted to WiSec 2022 March 19, 2022
  • Paper accepted to EuroS&P 2022 February 12, 2022
  • Paper accepted to ASIACCS 2022 February 12, 2022
  • Three new PhD students join the SPIES lab January 12, 2022
  • New Course: Secure Authentication Systems November 10, 2021
  • Two paper accepted to ACNS 2022 November 8, 2021

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