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Maliheh Shirvanian received the College Dean’s Award for the outstanding graduating PhD student in the whole college and the outstanding graduating student in the CS department. Congratulations!
 

Listening Watch: Wearable Two-Factor Authentication using Speech Signals Resilient to Near-Far Attacks .
Prakash Shrestha, and Nitesh Saxena
In ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), To appear in June 2018.
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Noisy Vibrational Pairing of IoT Devices
Abhishek Anand, and Nitesh Saxena
In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Special Issue on Emerging Attacks and Solutions for Secure Hardware in the Internet of Things, 2018.
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Home Alone: The Insider Threat of Unattended Wearables and A Defense using Audio Proximity.
Prakash Shrestha, Babins Shrestha and Nitesh Saxena
In IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), May/June 2018..

Extension of our “Wiretapping via Mimicry” paper from CCS 2014:
Short Voice Imitation Man-in-the-Middle Attacks on Crypto Phones: Defeating Humans and Machines
Maliheh Shirvanian, Dibya Mukhopadhyay and Nitesh Saxena
In  Journal of Computer Security (JCS), 2017.
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Two-Factor Authentication with End-to-End Password Security.
Stanislaw Jarecki, Hugo Krawczyk, Maliheh Shirvanian and Nitesh Saxena
In International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography (PKC), March 2018.
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Keyboard Emanations in Remote Voice Calls: Password Leakage and Noise(less) Masking Defenses.
Abhishek Anand and Nitesh Saxena
In ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), March 2018..
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Congratulations to the SPIES team for “securing” a paper at the top conference in security.  A comprehensive demonstration of a hard negative result: mobile motion sensors may not pose a threat to speech privacy, unlike claimed by recent prominent work (e.g., Gyrophone).
Speechless: Analyzing the Threat to Speech Privacy from Smartphone Motion Sensors. Abhishek Anand, and Nitesh Saxena. In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P; Oakland), May 2018.

Great conference, acceptance rate 19.7% (48/244):
On the Pitfalls of End-to-End Encrypted Communications: A Study of Remote Key-Fingerprint Verification.
Maliheh Shirvanian, Nitesh Saxena and Jesvin James George.
In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2017; arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.05285, 2017/7/17.
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A comprehensive survey paper on the nuts and bolts of the security of wearable computing. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) is a reputed venue publishing comprehensive, readable tutorials and survey papers that give guided tours through the literature and explain topics to those who seek to learn the basics of areas outside their specialties.

• An Offensive and Defensive Exposition of Wearable Computing
  Prakash Shrestha and Nitesh Saxena
  In ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2017.
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