Carleton Security Research Labs (CCSL+CISL)| 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! | |
| December 2023. Srivathsan Morkonda has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congrats Vathsan! | |
| 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! | |
| Nov 29, 2021. Yusef Karim has successfully defended his Master's thesis. Congrats Yusef! | |
| 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. | |
| Aug 17, 2020. Our paper, "SERENIoT: Distributed Network Security Policy Management and Enforcement for Smart Homes", is accepted for publication at ACSAC. | |
| Feb 26, 2020. Our paper, "SoK: Delegation and Revocation, the Missing Links in the Web's Chain of Trust", is accepted for publication at IEEE EuroS&P. | |
| Dec 20, 2019. Our paper, "Understanding Cybersecurity Practices in Emergency Departments", is accepted for publication at ACM CHI. | |
| Feb 10, 2019. Our paper, "Comparative Analysis and Framework Evaluating Mimicry-Resistant and Invisible Web Authentication Schemes", is accepted for publication in IEEE TDSC. | |
| Feb 7, 2019. Prof. Abdou will give a talk at the Département d'Informatique et d'Ingénierie, Université du Québec en Outaouais. | |
| Jan 18, 2019. Our paper, "UWB-ED: Distance Enlargement Attack Detection in Ultra-Wideband", is accepted for publication at USENIX Security. | |
| May 17, 2018. Our paper, "Comparative Analysis of Control Plane Security of SDN and Conventional Networks", is accepted for publication in IEEE COMST. | |
| Jan 3, 2018. Our paper, "Standardizing IoT Network Security Policy Enforcement", is accepted for publication at NDSS Workshop on Decentralized IoT Security and Standards (DISS). | |
| Nov 20, 2017. Our paper, "TARANET: Traffic-Analysis Resistant Anonymity at the NETwork layer", is accepted for publication at IEEE EuroS&P. | |