What We Love About Research at LERSSE
As part of Innovate (in October) 2015, LERSSE’s Kosta gave a 7-minute “edutainment” talk, explaining in a very accessible form my current research, using an example of a recent study of iPhone’s TouchID:
Findings on Touch ID in plain (British) English
My research group had a paper presented at SOUPS on the interplay between TouchID and iPhone security, which I’ve described in a recent post.
Towards strong and memorable passwords
System-generated random passwords have maximum password security and are highly resistant to guessing attacks. However, few systems use such passwords because they are difficult to remember.
Android Rooting: Methods, Detection, and Evasion
User root their Android (or jailbreak their iPhone) smartphones. They do so in order to run useful apps that require root privileges, to remove restrictions by carriers and hardware manufacturers, and to alter or remove system apps.
How Much Can Chunking Help to Remember Banking PINs?
To ensure that users do not choose weak personal identification numbers (PINs), many banks give out system-generated random PINs. 4-digit is the most commonly used PIN length, but 6-digit system-generated PINs are also becoming popular. The increased security we get from using system-generated PINs, however, comes at the cost of memorability. And while banks are […]