Security & Privacy at UIC

The Security & Privacy group consists of researchers in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Our group performs research into a wide range of security and privacy topics including formal methods, theoretical and applied cryptography, web security and privacy, systems and network security, language-based security, computer security education, and computer security policy. We are affiliated with the Systems & Internet Security Lab, the BITS Lab, and the Ethos Lab.

Faculty

Postdocs

Ph.D. Students

Abeer Alhuzali
Sara Amini
Mohammad Ghasemisharif
Mohammad Taha Khan
John Kristoff
Sadegh Momemi
Maliheh Monshizadeh
Peter Snyder

M.S. Students

Vijay Sai Prasanth Kommini

Recent Alumni

Arun Swarnam (M.S. 2017) → Applied Materials

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Recent Publications

Saumya Solanki, Gautam Krishnan, Varshini Sampath, and Jason Polakis. In (Cyber)Space Bots Can Hear You Speak: Breaking Audio CAPTCHAs Using OTS Speech Recognition, in Proceedings of AISec 2017. Nov. 2017. To appear.
Peter Snyder, Cynthia Taylor, and Chris Kanich. Most Websites Don’t Need to Vibrate: A Cost-Benefit Approach to Improving Browser Security, in Proceedings of CCS 2017. Nov. 2017. To appear.
Stephen Checkoway, Jacob Maskiewicz, Christina Garman, Joshua Fried, Shaanan Cohney, Matthew Green, Nadia Heninger, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, Eric Rescorla, and Hovav Shacham. A Systematic Analysis of the Juniper Dual EC Incident, in Proceedings of CCS 2016. Oct. 2016. Best paper award.
Md Nahid Hossain, Sadegh M. Milajerdi, Junao Wang, Birhanu Eshete, Rigel Gjomemo, R. Sekar, Scott D. Stoller, and V.N. Venkatakrishnan. SLEUTH: Real-time Attack Scenario Reconstruction from COTS Audit Data, in Proceedings of USENIX Security 2016. Aug. 2016.

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