Dynamic Cognitive Game CAPTCHA Usability and Detection of Streaming-Based Farming. Manar Mohamed, Song Gao, Nitesh Saxena, and Chengcui Zhang. In the Workshop on Usable Security (USEC), co-located with NDSS, February 2014.
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Our credit card fraud study paper accepted to a major Psychology conference
Consumer anxiety concerning credit/debit card fraud. Manasvee Godbole, Jacinta Cai, Michael Georgescu, Oliver Nick Harper, Nitesh Saxena, David Schwebel, and John Sloan. To be presented at the 122nd American Psychological Association (APA), August 2014.
Song Gao wins an entrepreneurship award
Song Gao is one of the only two winners of the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Entrepreneurship Awards, 2014. The award is based on Song’s dissertation research on next generation CAPTCHAs.
SPIES research covered in Yahoo! Finance
Future credit cards could thwart Target hackers, by Aaron Pressman, covering our work on secure mobile payments (ESORICS’12 paper).
Paper accepted to FC 2014
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).
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.