Security and Privacy Research Lab

UW security and privacy researchers Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franzi Roesner, Shwetak Patel, and Yoshi Kohno, along with collaborators from the University of California San Diego led by (UW alumnus!) Stefan Savage, describe the results of an extensive experimental security analysis of a modern car in their paper at the 2010 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. More information at the Center for Automotive Embedded Systems Security Web site and in articles in The New York Times, New Scientist, Technology Review, PC World, TechFlash, and Popular Mechanics.

This week UW security researcher Tamara Denning presented her study of patients, pacemakers, and security defenses at CHI 2010. A CNN reporter was in the audience and decided to write an article about her work. Tammy used semi-structured interviews with cardiac device patients to provide a scientifically-informed understanding of how different security solutions for wireless implantable medical devices interact with patients’ values. This work was in collaboration with Seattle Pacific University and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The CNN article also features UW’s 2008 experimental security analysis of an implantable cardiac defibrillator (in collaboration with UMass and BIDMC) and discusses the points made in a recent New England Journal of Medicine perspective article (also in collaboration with BIDMC).