CS 858 Syllabus

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Date Topic Papers Presenters
Mon 09/12 Introduction Urs
Wed 09/14 Presentation Advice / Background Information Urs
Sun 09/18 Paper bids are due
Mon 09/19 Implicitly Authenticating Smartphone Users On Implicit Authentication

Targeted Mimicry Attacks on Touch Input Based Implicit Authentication Schemes

Urs

Hassan Khan

Wed 09/21 Having Devices Collaborate for Authentication Low-Cost Mitigation Against Cold Boot Attacks for an Authentication Token

Shatter - Using Threshold Cryptography to Protect Single Users with Multiple Devices

Ian Goldberg

Erinn Atwater

Mon 09/26 Analyzing Network Traffic for Information Leaks PrivacyGuard - A VPN-based Platform to Detect Information Leakage on Android Devices

ReCon - Revealing and Controlling PII Leaks in Mobile Network Traffic

Urs

Urs

Wed 09/28 Course Project Discussion Urs
Mon 10/03 Covert Communication in Mobile Applications

Using text mining to infer the purpose of permission use in mobile apps

Hirad

Bailey

Wed 10/05 Are You Ready to Lock? Understanding User Motivations for Smartphone Locking Behaviors

The Anatomy of Smartphone Unlocking - A Field Study of Android Lock Screens

Basit

Kapil

Mon 10/10 Thanksgiving - No class
Wed 10/12 Study day - No class
Fri 10/14 Usability and Security of Text Passwords on Mobile Devices

Learning Assigned Secrets for Unlocking Mobile Devices

Alexey

Ahmed

Sun 10/16 Project proposals are due
Mon 10/17 Biometric Authentication on iPhone and Android - Usability, Perceptions, and Influences on Adoption

User-generated free-form gestures for authentication - security and memorability

Brittany

Tomas

Wed 10/19 Progressive Authentication - Deciding When to Authenticate on Mobile Phones

SnapApp - Reducing Authentication Overhead with a Time-Constrained Fast Unlock Option

Sam

Zijin

Thu 10/20 Second-round paper bids are due
Mon 10/24 Where's Wally? Precise User Discovery Attacks in Location Proximity Services

Defending against Sybil Devices in Crowdsourced Mapping Services

Peiyuan

Megan

Wed 10/26 Why MAC Address Randomization is not Enough - An Analysis of Wi-Fi Network Discovery Mechanisms

On the Inference of User Paths from Anonymized Mobility Data

Nikita

Miti

Mon 10/31 Inferring User Routes and Locations Using Zero-Permission Mobile Sensors

Anatomization and Protection of Mobile Apps' Location Privacy Threats

Sabria

Eric

Wed 11/02 Mo(bile) Money, Mo(bile) Problems - Analysis of Branchless Banking Applications in the Developing World

Rethinking SSL development in an appified world

Sam

Alex

Mon 11/07 Android permissions - user attention, comprehension, and behavior

Android Permissions Remystified - A Field Study on Contextual Integrity

Hirad

Ahmed

Wed 11/09 Follow My Recommendations - A Personalized Privacy Assistant for Mobile App Permissions

The Impact of Timing on the Salience of Smartphone App Privacy Notices

Sabria

Brittany

Mon 11/14 On lightweight mobile phone application certification

Viola - Trustworthy Sensor Notifications for Enhanced Privacy on Mobile Systems

Zijin

Miti

Wed 11/16 TaintDroid - An Information-Flow Tracking System for Realtime Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones

FlowDroid - precise context, flow, field, object-sensitive and lifecycle-aware taint analysis for Android apps

Megan

Eric

Mon 11/21 Boxify - Full-fledged App Sandboxing for Stock Android

FLEXDROID - Enforcing In-App Privilege Separation in Android

Nikita

Peiyuan

Wed 11/23 MAdScope - Characterizing Mobile In-App Targeted Ads

The Price of Free - Privacy Leakage in Personalized Mobile In-Apps Ads

Basit

Kapil Haresh

Mon 11/28 I-Pic - A Platform for Privacy-Compliant Image Capture

ipShield - A Framework For Enforcing Context-Aware Privacy

Bailey

Tomas

Wed 11/30 Project presentations I Kapil Haresh & Hirad
Tomas & Basit
Megan & Sabria
Sam & Eric
Mon 12/05 Project presentations II Brittany & Bailey
Miti & Nikita
Peiyuan (10 mins)
Ahmed (10 mins)
Alex & Zijin
Sun 12/11 Project write-up are due

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