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• Apr 25, 2025. Mohammad hossein Asghari has successfully defended his Master's thesis. Congrats Hossein!
• Jan 9, 2025. Nareen Khurshid has successfully defended his Master's thesis. Congrats Nareen!
• Dec 19, 2024. Abdelrahman Soliman has successfully defended his Master's thesis. Congrats Abdelrahman!
• November, 2024. Nilofar Mansourzadeh has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congrats Nilofar!
• Oct 9, 2024. Our paper, "Multi-target Risk Score Aggregation for Security Evaluation of Network Environments." is accepted for publication at IEEE CloudCom.
• Sep 20, 2024. Our paper, "Towards Exploring Cross-Regional and Cross-Platform Differences in Login Throttling." is accepted for publication at NordSec.
• Aug 24, 2024. Ethan Thompson has successfully defended his Master's thesis. Congrats Ethan!
• Aug 30, 2023. Emma Sewell has successfully defended her Master's thesis. Congrats Emma!
• Aug 22, 2023. Conner Bradley has successfully defended his Master's thesis. Congrats Conner!
• Aug 4, 2023. Ming Lei has successfully defended his Master's thesis. Congrats Ming!
• Jul 15, 2023. Our paper, "Escaping Vendor Mortality: A New Paradigm for Extending IoT Device Longevity" is accepted for publication at NSPW.
• Jan 27, 2023. Our papers "Applying Accessibility Metrics to Measure the Threat Landscape for Users with Disabilities" and "Why do Internet Devices Remain Vulnerable? A Survey with System Administrators " are accepted for publication at NDSS MADWeb.
• Nov 14, 2022. Our papers "Towards Characterizing IoT Software Update Practices" and "If-This-Then-Allow-That (to Phone Home): A Trigger-Based Network Policy Enforcement Framework for Smart Homes" are accepted for publication at FPS.
• Oct 12, 2022. Our paper, "A Hybrid Decision-making Approach to Security Metrics Aggregation in Cloud Environments" is accepted for publication at IEEE CloudCom.
• Jun 23, 2022. Our paper, "Certificate Root Stores---An Area of Unity or Disparity?" is accepted for publication at CSET.
• 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.
• Feb 7, 2022. Our paper, "SoK: Password-authenticated key exchange - Theory, practice, standardization and real-world lessons." is accepted for publication at ACM AsiaCCS.
• 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.

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