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• Feb 11, 2022. Our paper, "Characterizing the Adoption of Security.txt Files and their Applications to Vulnerability Notification" is accepted for publication at NDSS MADWeb.
• Jan 5, 2022. Muhammad Shafayat Oshman has successfully defended his Master's thesis. Congrats Muhammad!
• 14 Oct 2021. Springer publishes "Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels from Malware to Bitcoin", the Second Edition of a book from our lab. See: https://people.scs.carleton.ca/~paulv/toolsjewels.html.
• Aug 30, 2021. William Findlay has successfully defended his Master's thesis. Congrats William!
• May 22, 2021. Our paper, "Is Real-time Phishing Eliminated with FIDO? Social Engineering Downgrade Attacks against FIDO Protocols" is accepted for publication at USENIX Security.
• Apr 21, 2021. Ali Jahromi has successfully defended his Master's thesis. Congrats Ali!
• Mar 18, 2021. Prof. Abdou will give a talk at the annual Technology Sessions with Universal Film Technology, NBC Universal Pictures.
• Mar 15, 2021. Our paper, "The EDIT Survey: Identifying Emergency Department Information Technology Knowledge and Training Gaps", is accepted for publication at the Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.
• Feb 7, 2021. Our papers, "Empirical Scanning Analysis of Censys and Shodan" and "Comparative Analysis of the DoT with HTTPS Certificate Ecosystems", are accepted for publication at NDSS MADWeb.
• Jan 25, 2021. Our paper, "Towards 5G-ready Security Metrics", is accepted for publication at IEEE ICC 2021.
• Jan 12, 2021. Chris Bennett has successfully defended his Master's thesis. Congrats Chris!.
• Dec 24, 2020. Our paper, "Emilia: Catching Iago in Legacy Code", is accepted for publication at NDSS 2021.
• Aug 19, 2020. Our paper, "bpfbox: Simple Precise Process Confinement with eBPF", is accepted for publication at CM CCSW.
• Feb 26, 2020. Our paper, "SERENIoT: Distributed Network Security Policy Management and Enforcement for Smart Homes", is accepted for publication at ACSAC.

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