IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2012

Press

This page collects links to media coverage of papers in the 2012 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.

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[SoK] The quest to replace passwords: A framework for comparative evaluation of web authentication schemes

Joseph Bonneau (University of Cambridge), Cormac Herley (Microsoft Research), Paul C. van Oorschot (Carleton U), and Frank Stajano (University of Cambridge)

Worth Reading: Passwords, guessed, replaced, still with us, The H, May 25, 2012.

The science of guessing: analyzing an anonymized corpus of 70 million passwords

Joseph Bonneau (University of Cambridge)

Over 55-year-olds pick better Internet passwords, SmartPlanet.com (blog), June 6, 2012.

Indonesia has weakest computer passwords: Researcher, Jakarta Post, June 4, 2012.

Need a secure password? Ask someone over 55: Study shows older people have safer log-ins (unless they are from Indonesia), Daily Mail, June 2, 2012.

People over 55 pick more secure passwords than 25-year-olds, Fox News, June 1, 2012.

Over-55s pick passwords twice as secure as teenagers', New Scientist, June 1, 2012.

Worth Reading: Passwords, guessed, replaced, still with us, The H, May 25, 2012.

Dissecting Android Malware: Characterization and Evolution

Yajin Zhou and Xuxian Jiang (North Carolina State University)

Researchers Mapping Android Malware Genome, Tom's Guide, May 28, 2012.

Academia joins in battling Android malware, CSO, May 29, 2012.

CompSci eggheads to map Android malware genome, The Register, May 23, 2012.

Android Malware Genome Project wants to fight malware by understanding it, The Verge, May 23, 2012.

Researchers 'Map' Android Malware Genome, Dark Reading, May 22, 2012.

NCSU researcher takes fight against Android malware global, WRAL Tech Wire, May 22, 2012.

Announcing the Android Malware Genome Project, The Abstract, May 22, 2012.

Off-Path TCP Sequence Number Inference Attack - How Firewall Middleboxes Reduce Security

Zhiyun Qian and Z. Morley Mao (University of Michigan)

Firewalls used to hack into FB, Twitter accounts: Study, moneycontrol.com, May 23, 2012.

How Firewalls help hackers break into Facebook, Twitter, Firstpost, May 22, 2012.

Smartphone Carriers Vunerable To Traffic Hijacking Claims University, SmartHouse, May 22, 2012.

Got An AT&T iPhone? It May Be Vulnerable To Cellular Hijacking, Cult of Mac, May 21, 2012.

Busted: When security tools fail, CSO Online, May 21, 2012.

Smartphone hijacking vulnerability affects AT&T, 47 other carriers, Ars Technica, May 21, 2012.

Cell network security holes revealed, with an app to test your carrier, Phys.org, May 21, 2012.

Don't Trust Satellite Phones: A Security Analysis of Two Satphone Standards

Benedikt Driessen, Ralf Hund, Carsten Willems, Christof Paar, Thorsten Holz (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)

Crypto crack makes satellite phones vulnerable to eavesdropping, Ars Technica, February 8, 2012.

Signing Me onto Your Accounts through Facebook and Google: a Traffic-Guided Security Study of Commercially Deployed Single-Sign-On Web Services

Rui Wang (Indiana University Bloomington), Shuo Chen (Microsoft Research), and XiaoFeng Wang (Indiana University Bloomington)

Researchers discover "worrisome" authentication flaws in many online services, sites, ZDNet, March 16, 2012.

Web Services Single Sign-On Contain Big Flaws, Dark Reading, March 19, 2012.

Trial finds EIGHT WAYS to defeat Google, PayPal and other SSOs, The Register, March 20, 2012.

Flawed sign-in services from Google and Facebook imperil user accounts, Ars Technica, March 26, 2012.

On the Feasibility of Internet-Scale Author Identification

Arvind Narayanan and Hristo Paskov (CS, Stanford), Neil Zhenqiang Gong, John Bethencourt, Emil Stefanov, Eui Chul Richard Shin and Dawn Song (EECS, UC Berkeley)

How Anonymous Are Your Online Posts?, InformationWeek, February 22, 2012.

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The IEEE S&P 2012 Organizing Committee has awarded 24 student travel grants to students from a wide variety of institutions, diverse backgrounds, and first time attendees. Awardees include women, undergraduates and students from minority serving institutions. Student travel grants are funded with contributions from the National Science Foundation, The IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, and Google.