All Your Voices Are Belong to Us: Stealing Voices to Fool Humans and Machines
Dibya Mukhopadhyay, Maliheh Shirvanian and Nitesh Saxena
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, to appear, September 2015.
News
Journal paper accepted to IEEE TIFS
Tap-Wave-Rub: Lightweight Human Interaction Approach to Curb Emerging Smartphone Malware. Babins Shrestha, Di Ma, Yan Zhu, Haoyu Li, and Nitesh Saxena. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), to appear, 2015.
Congratulations to lead author Babins!
Abhishek Anand awarded outstanding graduating MS student in CIS
Abhishek is the winner of the CIS outstanding graduating MS student award, 2015. Congratulations! A great way to enter the PhD program 🙂
Song Gao to join Google
The most recent PhD graduate of SPIES, Song Gao, will be taking up a full time Software Engineer position at Google in Mountain View, CA. Congratulations to Song! Sunny days ahead, literally 🙂
Dr. Saxena to serve on top security conference committees
CCS and ESORICS call for papers still open….submit your BESTest work 🙂
Dr. Saxena is serving on the program committee of several top security conferences in 2015: Usenix Security, CCS, ESORICS and RFIDSec. Please submit your best work!
UAB Mix Feature on our Work
Paper accepted to Percom
Only 15 full papers were accepted out of 196 submissions — acceptance rate of just 7.7%. Top conference in the field of pervasive computing. Congrats to Babins, Manar and Andy.
Babins Shrestha, Manar Mohamed, Anders Borg, Nitesh Saxena and Sandeep Tamrakar. Curbing Mobile Malware based on User-Transparent Hand Movements. International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), to appear, March 2015.
Extensive media coverage on our VoIP Security work
Our work on VoIP Security (Crypto Phones) received extensive media coverage. Some articles here: http://spies.cis.uab.edu/media-outreach/#voipSec
Song Gao successfully defends his PhD dissertation
Song Gao came out of his dissertation defense with flying colors. Excellent work on next generation CAPTCHAs. Congratulations to the newly-cooked Doctor :-)…who’s next?
Journal paper accepted to PMC
Using Contextual Co-Presence to Strengthen Zero-Interaction Authentication: Design, Integration and Usability. Hien Thi Thu Truong, Xiang Gao, Babins Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena, N. Asokan and Petteri Nurmi. In Elsevier Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), to appear, 2014.