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 […]
Challenges with Chrome’s Compromised Credential Notification
The widespread availability of usernames and passwords exposed by data breaches remains a big threat to users and organizations. In response, browsers such as Chrome started alerting users when their credentials appear in breaches. Specifically, whenever a user signs in to or registers on a site, a pop-up notification is triggered if the credentials used […]
Users’ Expectations, Experiences, and Concerns With COVID-19 Exposure Notification App
Our study about users’ expectations, experiences, and concerns with the COVID Alert app has been accepted by CSCW 2022.