A Sound for a Sound: Mitigating Acoustic Side Channel Attacks on Password Keystrokes with Active Sounds. Abhishek Anand and Nitesh Saxena. In Financial Cryptography and Data Security, February, 2016.
News
Paper accepted to CODASPY 2016
SMASheD: Sniffing and Manipulating Android Sensor Data. Manar Mohamed, Babins Shrestha and Nitesh Saxena. In ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), March 2016.
Paper accepted to NDSS 2016
NDSS is a top conference. Acceptance rate very low: 15% (60/389). Congratulations to Prakash!
Pitfalls in Designing Zero-Effort Deauthentication: Opportunistic Human Observation Attacks. Otto Huhta, Prakash Shrestha, Swapnil Udar, Mika Juuti, Nitesh Saxena and N. Asokan. In the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), to appear February 2016.
Prof. Saxena wins two NSF grants
http://www.uab.edu/news/faculty/item/6590-uab-faculty-receives-two-nsf-grants-for-cybersecurity-research
Open Faculty Position
UAB CIS is currently hiring a faculty member (open to all ranks and many core CS areas).
https://cis.uab.edu/faculty-employment-opportunities/
Two papers accepted to ACSAC 2015
The SPIES team has two papers accepted to ACSAC. Great conference, and an acceptance rate of only 24.4% (47/193).
- Song Gao, Manar Mohamed, Nitesh Saxena, and Chengcui Zhang. Emerging Image Game CAPTCHAs for Resisting Automated and Human-Solver Relay Attacks. In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2015.
- Maliheh Shirvanian and Nitesh Saxena. On the Security and Usability of Crypto Phones. In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2015.
NSF CICI Grant Awarded to Dr. Saxena
Improving the Security and Usability of Two-Factor Authentication for Cyberinfrastructure, $249,719.00 , Jan 1, 2016 to Dec 31, 2018, NSF Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure program. Joint grant with University of California Irvine, total amount $500,000. Details here.
Paper accepted to CANS 2015
Bad Sounds Good Sounds: Attacking and Defending Tap-based Rhythmic Passwords using Acoustic Signals. S Abhishek Anand, Prakash Shrestha, and Nitesh Saxena. In International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS), 2015.
NSF SaTC Grant Awarded to Dr. Saxena
Spoof-Resistant Smartphone Authentication using Cooperating Wearables, $207,965.00, Sept 1, 2015 to Aug 31, 2018, NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Program. Joint grant with Syracuse University, total amount $507,000. Details here.
Paper accepted to CCS
A Multi-Modal Neuro-Physiological Study of Phishing Detection and Malware Warnings. Ajaya Neupane, Md. Lutfor Rahman, Nitesh Saxena, and Leanne Hirshfield. In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 2015.
Congratulations to Ajaya. Exciting research. Top conference. Tough competition — acceptance rate = 19.8% (128/646).