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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 have been found in a data breach.

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This Year, We’ve Got Exchange Students from All Over the World!

LERSSE lab welcomed three exchange students this year.
Yingting Chen is a PhD exchange student from The University of Tokyo in Japan.
Max Conti is an undergrad exchange student from EPFL, Switzerland.
Guillaume Humbert is a master’s student from ENSICAEN, France.

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LERSSE Runners Joined Canada’s Largest Start Line: Vancouver Sun Run

A group of LERSSE members ran in the 38th edition of the Vancouver Sun Run. They crushed their health and fitness goals by practicing and running in the Vancouver Sun Run 10K race on Sunday.

 

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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.

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What Affected The Adoption of Information Tracking Solutions During COVID-19 Pandemic?

Our study about the factors that influence people’s adoption intention of COVID-19 information tracking solutions has been accepted by CHIIR 2022.

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