Month: May 2010

The IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (“The Oakland Conference”) is one of the flagship conferences for the computer security and privacy research community. Today all UW CSE affiliates (students, faculty, alumni, affiliate faculty) at Oakland decided to wear their UW CSE T-shirts. There was an impressive number of us there!

In the photo: Roxana Geambasu (UW CSE Ph.D. student), Tammy Denning (UW CSE Ph.D. student), David Molnar (MSR, teaching in UW CSE), Alexei Czeskis (UW CSE Ph.D. student), Franzi Roesner (UW CSE Ph.D. student), Stefan Savage (UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus, now UCSD CSE faculty), Steve Checkoway (UW CSE B.S. alumnus, now UCSD CSE Ph.D. student), Damon McCoy (UW CSE Ph.D. intern, now UCSD CSE postdoc), Karl Koscher (UW CSE Ph.D. student), Tadayoshi Kohno (UW CSE faculty), Gabriel Maganis (UW CSE B.S. alumnus, now UCD Ph.D. student), Charlie Reis (UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus, now Google Seattle), Miro Enev (UW CSE Ph.D. student), Vitaly Shmatikov (UW CSE B.S. alumnus, now UT Austin faculty).

UW security and privacy researchers Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franzi Roesner, Shwetak Patel, and Yoshi Kohno, along with collaborators from the University of California San Diego led by (UW alumnus!) Stefan Savage, describe the results of an extensive experimental security analysis of a modern car in their paper at the 2010 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. More information at the Center for Automotive Embedded Systems Security Web site and in articles in The New York Times, New Scientist, Technology Review, PC World, TechFlash, and Popular Mechanics.