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Ajaya Neupane is the most recent PhD. graduate of the SPIES lab. Groundbreaking research http://spies.cs.uab.edu/neuro-security  (top-tier papers, NDSS14 best paper, NIJ/DoJ fellow). He is taking on a post-doctoral research scientist position at UC Riverside, working on UCR/CMU/PSU CyberSecurity Research Alliance project funded by ARL.
Congratulations and very best wishes for a bright future 🙂

 
 

 
The SPIES lab and collaborators have two papers accepted to ACM CCS 2017. Extremely fierce competition with only 151 papers making it to the program out of 836 submissions (an acceptance of just about 18%).

• CCCP: Closed Caption Crypto Phones to Resist MITM Attacks, Human Errors and Click-Through
  Maliheh Shirvanian and Nitesh Saxena
  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October/Novermber 2017.
  [pdf]
•  VibWrite: Towards Finger-input Authentication on Ubiquitous Surfaces via Physical Vibration.
  Jian Liu, Chen Wang, Yingying Chen and Nitesh Saxena
  In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October/Novermber 2017.
  [pdf]

 

TDSC is a top journal in the area.
Emerging-Image Motion CAPTCHAs: Vulnerabilities of Existing Designs, and Countermeasures
Song Gao, Manar Mohamed, Nitesh Saxena, and Chengcui Zhang
In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2017.
 

 
Summer Vo, a high school student from the Alabama School of Fine Arts (ASFA),  who worked with Dr. Saxena and Maliheh Shirvanian on security research this past entire year, won the third place at the 2017 Central Alabama Regional Science and Engineering Fair (CARSEF) in the Computer Science and Mathematics category.  At the same competition, she was awarded the INTEL Excellence in Computer Science Outstanding Achievement. 
Summer is joining the MIT EECS program this Fall, majoring in Computer Science.
Congratulations on all round great achievements!

The SPIES group has two full papers accepted to WiSec 2017:

• YELP: Masking Sound-based Opportunistic Attacks in Zero-Effort Deauthentication
  Prakash Shrestha, Abhishek Anand and Nitesh Saxena
  ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), July 2017
  [pdf]
• Coresident Evil: Noisy Vibrational Pairing in the Face of Co-located Acoustic Eavesdropping
  Abhishek Anand, and Nitesh Saxena
  ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), July 2017

 
 

Manar Mohamed, Song Gao, Niharika Sachdeva, Nitesh Saxena, Chengcui Zhang, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Paul van Oorschot. On the Security and Usability of Dynamic Cognitive Game CAPTCHAs. In Journal of Computer Security (JCS), 2017.

Ajaya Neupane has been recognized by UAB as the outstanding graduating PhD student in CIS. He received this award at the Honors Convocation, Mar, 2017. Congratulations!

http://www.uab.edu/news/student-experience/item/8106-cybersecurity-research-earns-uab-student-national-institute-of-justice-fellowship

http://cybercorps.cis.uab.edu/
Actively soliciting applications.
The eligible candidates can apply directly to the MS CFSM program, but should note that they are interested in the UAB SFS program in their statement of career goals and objectives. The deadline to apply for Fall 2017 is June 1, 2017. However, the sooner you apply the better.

SPHINX: A Password Store that Perfectly Hides Passwords from Itself.
Maliheh Shirvanian, Stanislaw Jarecki, Hugo Krawczyk  and Nitesh Saxena
In IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) , June 2017.