Security Lab Alumnus Alexei Czeskis Speaks at Google I/O

Security Lab alumnus Alexei Czeskis spoke today at Google I/O about Google’s new Security Key. Quoting from the abstract, “Security Key is an inexpensive 2nd factor device which provides the user unphishable security for Google logins and for any other website which implements support. The user carries one device which works across all sites which support the open FIDO U2F protocol.” Great work Alexei and colleagues!

Melody Wins College of Engineering Professional Staff Award

UW CSE’s Melody Kadenko has received the 2015 UW College of Engineering Professional Staff Award.

Melody manages more than 100 research grants from multiple agencies. In her “spare time,” she mentors UW’s National Collegiate Cyberdefense Competition team, and shakes the tin cup to fund the CSE espresso room (appropriating a page from the NPR playbook: “We need $2500 before I quit sending email!”).

A faculty member writes, “Melody uses creativity and persistence to solve any kind of thorny research grant problem.”

A student writes, “Melody has been the single most useful person I’ve met since coming to UW.”

Congratulations Melody!! You totally deserved this!

Franzi Keynotes CSE ACM Research Night

Security and Privacy lab co-director Franzi Roesner gave the opening remarks at today’s ACM Research Night. ACM Research Night provides an opportunity for UW Computer Science & Engineering undergraduate students to learn what research is all about. Franzi began her talk by discussing her research in computer security and privacy. She then gave some valuable advice to future undergraduate researchers. Here’s to undergraduate research!

Great talk Adam!

Congratulations to Adam Lerner for a great talk at MobiSys 2015! Using a data set of 87 million scans from a mobile phone barcode scanning application, Adam and colleagues analyzed the use of QR codes in the wild. You can read more about this work here. Great job Adam!

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