Our societies are undergoing pervasive digitalization. It is not an understatement to say that every facet of human endeavor is being profoundly changed by the use of computing and digital technologies. Naturally such sweeping changes also bring forth ethical issues that computing professionals have to face and deal with. The question is: are they being […]
Phishing attacks are those in which unsuspecting users are lured to a rogue website that mimics a legitimate website and are fooled into giving up their login credentials or other sensitive information to the rogue site. It has been a serious threat against ordinary users on the Internet. Current solutions for steering users away from […]
Today, the Heads of CS departments at Aalto University and University of Helsinki made a joint announcement establishing Helsinki-Aalto Center for Information Security HAIC. HAIC is intended to serve as a main focal point for research and education in the broad areas of information security & privacy at both universities. Initially HAIC will focus on […]
At the forthcoming 2016 Networking and Distributed Systems Symposium we present case study on designing systems that are simultaneously secure and easy-to-use. Transparent (“zero-effort”) authentication is a very desirable goal. But designing and analyzing them correctly is a challenge. At the 2014 IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium, a top conference on information security and privacy, […]
(Countries with commercial LTE service as of December 7, 2014 shaded in red; Source Wikipedia article) 4G mobile communication networks, also known as “LTE” (Long Term Evolution) are widely deployed. How good is LTE security? Ravishankar Borgaonkar, a postdoc in my research group, and Altaf Shaik, a doctoral student at TU Berlin, discovered several surprising lapses […]
