Author: webmaint

On Saturday December 6, more than 450 middle school and high school students and their families visited UW CSE for the annual UW Computing Open House, kicking off Computer Science Education Week.

Security and Privacy Lab PhD students Anna Kornfeld Simpson, Paul Vines, and Peter Ney hosted a session on computer security. Their room was filled with interested students! Thanks Anna, Paul, and Peter for helping inspire the next generation of computer scientists!

Today was the departmental holiday party. Security and Privacy lab PhD student Paul Vines asked Dr. CSE how to interpret his advisor’s use of the word “interesting.” We all found that to be a very interesting question. This slide gives Dr. CSE’s guidelines for “How to Interpret Professorese”.

The faculty and student skits were awesome, as always.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spent 90 minutes in UW CSE this morning. He discussed research and departmental trajectories with faculty and students, including with Security and Privacy lab professor Franzi Roesner.

UW CSE Security and Privacy PhD student Paul Vines defended his quals project today, the key research milestone for receiving his Masters degree in Computer Science & Engineering. Great job Paul!

UW Security and Privacy lab researcher Temitope Oluwafemi publishes an invited article in The Conversation about computer security and the Internet of Things.

Check out the article here: https://theconversation.com/can-a-hacker-stop-your-car-or-your-heart-security-and-the-internet-of-things-33273

In an article entitled, “Tacoma Police Change How They Seek Permission to Use Cellphone Tracker,” The News Tribune quotes UW CSE’s Ian Smith. Quoting from the article:

“Ian Smith is a security researcher in the University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering Security and Privacy Lab and has studied cell site simulators and similar devices.

“… Cellphone companies have the ability to access that kind of information now, Smith said. Cell site simulators give that capability to anyone who knows how to use them, including the police, he said.”

Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/11/15/3488642_tacoma-police-change-how-they.html?rh=1

Congratulations Dr. Karl Koscher for a very successful final defense! UCSD is very fortunate to be having you join their team!

UW CSE Professor Yoshi Kohno was invited to run Session 1 at the Stanford Cybersecurity Bootcamp for U.S. Congressional Staffers. The session focused on threat modeling and developing the security mindset.

The EFF just released a new online privacy tool, called Privacy Badger, to help protect against third-party tracking on the web.

The EFF worked with Franzi Roesner to integrate her ShareMeNot functionality into Privacy Badger. Privacy Badger uses the ShareMeNot techniques to handle social media widgets.

To quote from the EFF Press Release: “EFF wishes to thank Professor Franziska Roesner at the University of Washington for exceptional work in enhancing Privacy Badger’s widget-handling algorithms.”

UW CSE Security Lab’s Karl Koscher is featured on German TV. See Karl’s interview starting around minute 6. Great job Karl! The video also includes clips of UW CSE Security Lab members and alumni Alexei Czeskis, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Franzi Roesner. Read more about the UW CSE automotive security effort, in collaboration with UCSD, here.