Can your brainwaves give away your PIN or password while you’re gaming, or predict your susceptibility to attacks? http://spies.cis.uab.edu/neuro-security/
News
Prof. Saxena gives an invited talk at the TechMixer Event
NFC: A Convenient Mobile Payment Platform, or Fraudsters’ Playground?
“TechMixer brings tech professionals and enthusiasts together for the largest single day of technology training held in Alabama, and had around 600 participants this year. “
Tzipora Halevi takes up a post-doctoral researcher position
Tzipora Halevi, the most recent SPIES PhD graduate, will continue as a post-doctoral researcher at the NYU/NYU-Poly Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Security and Privacy. Congratulations to her!
Story Time..
UAB has a story, been picked up by other media outlets (e.g., Bloomberg, ZDNet), based on our ESORICS’12 paper: UAB system improves mobile payment security, protects personal info.
Paper accepted at ICICS 2012
Exploring Mobile Proxies for Better Password Authentication
Grant proposal funded by the NSF EAGER (Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace) program
Establishing Secure Wireless Connections via Playful User Engagement
Prof. Saxena gives an invited talk at Carleton University
User-Aided Device Authentication: The Case of Constrained Wireless Devices
The doctorhood…
Tzipora Halevi successfully defends her PhD thesis, making her the second SPIES PhD graduate after Jon Voris. Who’s next?
Paper accepted at ESORICS 2012
Secure Proximity Detection for NFC Devices based on Ambient Sensor Data
NIST grant proposal invited for the next round
Our collaborative proposal submitted in response to the NIST’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) Pilot Grant Program has been invited for the next round of competition. Only 27 pre-proposals were selected out of a total of 186 submissions; an acceptance rate of merely 14.5%. The proposal centers around our work on usable authentication primitives and fault-tolerant distributed security services. This grant is expected to fund up to $4M over a period of two years per proposal.