Author: Franziska Roesner

Today Security Lab PhD student Kiron Lebeck presented at the 38th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland) in San Jose, CA. Kiron presented his paper “Security Augmented Reality Output”, describing a design for an augmented reality platform that mitigates risks from buggy or malicious application output (e.g., virtual content that obscures a user’s view of important physical world objects, like oncoming cars, or that startles a user). This work was done in collaboration with Security Lab undergraduate researcher Kimberly Ruth and faculty members Yoshi Kohno and Franzi Roesner. Congrats Kiron on a great presentation!

Read the full research paper here and learn more about the UW Security Lab’s efforts on security and privacy for emerging augmented reality platforms here. This work was also recently covered by Science.

Security Lab undergraduate researcher Kimberly Ruth spoke today at UW’s Undergraduate Research Symposium. Kimberly discussed her work on security and privacy for emerging augmented reality technologies, in collaboration with Security Lab PhD student Kiron Lebeck and lab co-directors Professors Yoshi Kohno and Franzi Roesner, which will also appear later this month at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) 2017. Great talk, Kimberly!

Members of the security lab visited Paris, France this week for the 2nd IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P).

At the conference, security lab alumna Gennie Gebhart (now at the Electronic Frontier Foundation) presented her work with faculty member Yoshi Kohno and an anonymous co-author on “Internet Censorship in Thailand: User Practices and Potential Threats”. Read the full paper here.

Security lab PhD student Eric Zeng presented “Confidante: Usable Encrypted Email – A Case Study With Lawyers and Journalists”, collaborative work with PhD student Ada Lerner and faculty member Franzi Roesner. Read the full paper here and check out the Confidante encrypted email tool and source code here.

Congratulations to Security Lab undergraduate researcher Kimberly Ruth for winning a Scholarship for Women Studying Information Security (SWSIS)! In fact, Kimberly is the first winner of the program’s first named scholarship, the Rebecca Gurley Bace SWSIS Scholarship. The SWSIS program provides scholarships of up to $10,000 for women studying for their Bachelors and Masters degrees in fields relating to information security. Kimberly’s research focuses on security and privacy for emerging augmented reality systems. Read the official award citation here. Congratulations again, Kimberly!