News

Jon Voris, a former SPIES PhD graduate, is starting this Fall as an Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences at the New York Institute of Technology. Congratulations! Who’s next 🙂

Keyboard Acoustic Side Channel Attacks: Exploring Realistic and Security-Sensitive Scenarios. Tzipora Halevi and Nitesh Saxena
International Journal of Information Security, to appear, 2014.

Our research on relay resistant zero-interaction authentication covered in CNBC (based on our Percom’14 paper)
Forget passwords: This is the future of logging in, CNBC, Aug 25, 2014, by Hamza Ai

Wiretapping via Mimicry: Short Voice Imitation Man-in-the-Middle Attacks on Crypto Phones. Maliheh Shirvanian and Nitesh Saxena. In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), to appear, November 2014.
Top conference; acceptance rate = 19.5% (114/585). Congratulations to Maliheh!

Dr. Saxena won a Comcast research award, 2014 for his work on secure CAPTCHAs. The award is a $75,000 unrestricted gift.

http://www.crushplate.com/2014/06/interview-with-dr-nitesh-saxena-beyond.html
 
 

A focused program covering exciting work in security and privacy of RFID, Internet-of-Things, and Body Area Networking: http://rfidsec2014.cis.uab.edu/conference-program/

Passwords no more? UAB researchers develop mechanisms that enable users to log in securely without passwords, by Katherine Shonesy, UAB News. Coverage on our Percom’14 and FC’14 papers. Chasing our dream for a “password free” world 🙂

RFIDSec 2014 conference that Dr. Saxena is leading has just announced its list of accepted papers. Exciting program in the making.
http://rfidsec2014.cis.uab.edu/program/

SPIES student, Lutfor Rahman, just graduated with an MS degree, and is now taking up a Lead Developer position at Marvin Technology, a Birmingham based IT company. Congratulations and all the best! Now, at least we do not have to worry about him hacking into our brains 🙂