Security and Privacy Research Lab
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
The National Science Foundation recently chose to highlight the efforts of UW CSE’s Security Lab, and the grants of security lab faculty members Tadayoshi Kohno and Franziska Roesner, in an article entitled “Benefits and risks of the ‘Internet of Things.'” Read the full article here.
The UW CSE Security Lab spent the afternoon locked in a room, for fun. We were locked in a room themed after “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, and had to try to escape by solving puzzles. A lot of fun!
Security Lab alum Karl Koscher has been named runner-up for the second annual SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Computer and Information Security for his UW Ph.D. thesis, “Securing Embedded Systems: Analyses of Modern Automotive Systems and Enabling Near-Real Time Dynamic Analysis.” The award was announced at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, the flagship annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC), held this week in Denver, Colorado. Congratulations Karl!
NOVA visited the UW CSE Security Lab again, this time for its documentary CyberWar Threat, which aired last night. The UW CSE component begins around minute 29, and includes appearances by UW CSE security lab members and alumni Alexei Czseskis, Melody Kadenko, Tadayoshi Kohno, Karl Koscher, Temitope Oluwafemi, Franziska Roesner, Alex Takakuwa, Tariq Yusuf.
UW CSE PhD student Paul Vines delivered a fabulous talk today at the Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES’15). Rook is a censorship-resistance platform for transferring data covertly between parties by hiding the data in the traffic of online games. You can read more about Rook here.
Congratulations Anna Kornfeld Simpson for the great Quals Talk today! The Quals Talks is a major milestone in the UW CSE PhD process, and is what entitles a UW CSE graduate student to receive their masters degree en route to the PhD. Congratulations Anna for completing this major milestone!
The Daily Free Press has an article today entitled “U.K. researchers work to combat social media malware”.
Security lab member Adam Lerner has a great quote in the article. Quoting from the article: “Adam Lerner, a current doctoral student in computer science at the University of Washington, said issues regarding network security, such as link shortening and user privacy in general, are an important area of research. ‘Our daily lives are becoming connected to the Internet, which is the biggest network we’ve got,’ Lerner said. ‘Phones, cars, thermostats, you name it. Whenever something’s connected to a network, that network becomes a potential avenue of attack. In the same vein, more and more important aspects of our lives, both private and public, are taking place on the Internet, via these networked technologies. The goal of network security research … is to protect people and the things we care about from malicious behavior.'”
Great quote Adam!