Drone to the Rescue: Relay-Resilient Authentication using Ambient Multi-Sensing. Babins Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena, Hien Truong and N. Asokan. In Financial Cryptography and Data Security, to appear, March 2014. Acceptance rate = 22.5% (31/138).
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Journal paper accepted at IEEE TETC
Context-Aware Defenses to RFID Unauthorized Reading and Relay Attacks. Tzipora Halevi, Haoyu Li, Di Ma, Nitesh Saxena, Jonathan Voris, and Tuo Xiang. In IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), November 2013.
Journal paper accepted at JCS
Web Search Query Privacy: Evaluating Query Obfuscation and Anonymizing Networks. Sai Teja Peddinti and Nitesh Saxena. In Journal of Computer Security (JCS), to appear, 2014.
Paper accepted to Percom 2014
Only 18 full papers were accepted out of 175 submissions — acceptance rate of just 10.2%. Congrats to Babins.
Hien Truong, Xiang Gao, Babins Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena, N. Asokan, and Petteri Nurmi. Comparing and Fusing Different Sensor Modalities for Relay Attack Resistance in Zero-Interaction Authentication. In International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), to appear, March 2014.
2 papers accepted to NDSS 2014
Only 55 papers were accepted out of a total 293 submissions. Congrats to the SPIES student lead authors, Ajaya and Maliheh.
- Ajaya Neupane, Nitesh Saxena, Keya Kuruvilla, Michael Georgescu, and Rajesh Kana. Neural Signatures of User-Centered Security: An fMRI Study of Phishing, and Malware Warnings.
- Maliheh Shirvanian, Stanislaw Jarecki, Nitesh Saxena and Naveen Nathan. Two-Factor Authentication Resilient to Server Compromise Using Mix-Bandwidth Devices.
Paper accepted at ISC 2013
NIharika Sachdeva, Nitesh Saxena, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru. On the Viability of CAPTCHAs for Use in Telephony Systems: A Usability Field Study. In Information Security Conference (ISC), to appear, November 2013.
RFIDSec 2014 Website Up and Running
Please submit your best work: http://rfidsec2014.cis.uab.edu/
Saxena wins Google award for mobile security research
Saxena wins Google award for mobile security research, UAB News, by Meghan Davis
Prof. Saxena to lead RFIDSec 2014
Prof. Saxena will be co-chairing the 10th Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDSec) 2014, to be to held at the University of Oxford, UK, July 2014. Details forthcoming. This is a major venue in the space of RFID and small device security and privacy.
Paper accepted at CANS 2013
Babins Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena and Justin Harrison. Wave-to-Access: Protecting Sensitive Mobile Device Services via a Hand Waving Gesture. International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS), November 2013, to appear.