Congratulations to the Latest LERSSE Graduate!
Congratulations to Dr. Masoud Mehrabi Koushki on his successful PhD defense and graduation from UBC. At LERSSE, he investigated understanding and improving the user experience with smartphone physical security. His dissertation can be accessed via this link.
Congratulations to the Latest LERSSE Graduate!
Congratulations to Dr. Borke Obada-Obieh on her successful PhD defense and graduation from UBC. At LERSSE, she investigated the security and privacy challenges of using technology in personal, professional, and involuntary relationships. Her dissertation can be accessed via this link.
LERSSE Poster Received an Honourable Mention Award at SOUPS 2022
LERSSE poster “Systematization of Knowledge: Human, Organizational, and Technological Dimensions of Developers’ Challenges in Engineering Secure Software” has received an honourable mention award at SOUPS 2022, poster session. Despite all attempts to improve software security, vulnerabilities are still propagated within the software. A growing body of research is looking into why developers are unable […]
Investigating the Efficacy of User Access-Control Solutions on Smartphones
The incumbent all-or-nothing model of access control on smartphones has been known to dissatisfy users, due to high overhead (both cognitive and physical) and lack of device-sharing support. Several alternative models have been proposed. However, their efficacy has not been evaluated and compared empirically, due to a lack of detailed quantitative data on users’ authorization […]
SoK: The Dual Nature of Technology in Sexual Assault
This paper systematizes and contextualizes the existing body of knowledge on technology’s dual nature regarding sexual abuse: facilitator of it and assistant to its prevention, reporting, and restriction. By reviewing 224 research papers, we identified 10 characteristics of technology that facilitate sexual abuse: covertness, publicness, anonymity, evolution, boundlessness, reproducibility, accessibility, indispensability, malleability, and opaqueness. We […]