Month: August 2015

Security Lab alum Karl Koscher, of 60 Minutes car hacking fame, is in the news once again for exposing the vulnerabilities of motor vehicle systems with a team at University of California, San Diego, where he is doing a postdoc with UCSD CSE professors and UW CSE Ph.D. alums Stefan Savage and Geoff Voelker.

This time, Karl and his fellow researchers demonstrate for Wired magazine and the USENIX security conference a new threat for motorists: common plug-in devices such as those provided by insurance firms to monitor a vehicle’s location, mileage and speed.

Read more in the Wired article here.

Congratulations Dr. Temitope Oluwafemi! Dr. Oluwafemi presented his final PhD defense today and will be joining Intel’s prestigious Engineering Leadership Program, where he will focus on the Internet of Things. Tope’s dissertation was titled “Using Component Isolation to Increase Trust in Mobile Devices” and was co-advised by Security Lab faculty members Tadayoshi Kohno and Franziska Roesner. Congratulations Tope!