The Yin and Yang Sides of Embedded Security

Christof Paar (Ruhr University Bochum).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 31 January 2012, 12:45-14:00

Statistical Attack on RC4: Distinguishing WPA

Serge Vaudenay (EPFL).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 30 January 2012, 16:15-17:15

Extracting Unknown Keys from Unknown Algorithms Encrypting Unknown Fixed Messages and Returning no Results

David Naccache (ENS).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 30 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

User choice of PINs and passphrases

Joseph Bonneau (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 16:15-17:15

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Homomorphic Encryption from Ring Learning with Errors

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Michael Naehrig, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.

Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 January 2012, 10:00-11:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Real-Time and Real Trustworthiness: Timing Analysis of a Protected OS Kernel

This talk is cancelled.

Bernard Blackham (NICTA).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Monday 21 November 2011, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Quantifying Location Privacy

George Theodorakopoulos (EPFL, University of Derby).

SS03, Computer Lab, William Gates Building.

Thursday 17 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Digital Technology Group (DTG) Meetings

Web mining and privacy: foes or friends?

Bettina Berendt.

SS03, William Gates Building.

Monday 31 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Facial Analysis for Lie Detection

Hassan Ugail (University of Bradford).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 16:15-17:15

Building Trusted Systems with Protected Modules

Bryan Parno (Microsoft Research).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 06 October 2011, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Twitter bots

Miranda Mowbray (HP Labs Bristol).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 29 September 2011, 16:00-17:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

The IITM Model and its Application to the Analysis of Real-World Security Protocol

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Ralf Küsters, University of Trier.

Large lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Thursday 08 September 2011, 13:30-14:30

The great censorship war of 2011: are we winning?

Mystery speaker.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 02 August 2011, 16:15-17:15

Evolutionary Software Repair

Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 19 July 2011, 16:15-17:15

Practical Linguistic Steganography using Synonym Substitution

Ching-Yun (Frannie) Chang & Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 17 May 2011, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Digital Technology Group (DTG) Meetings

(Research) Influences of wind on radiowave propagation in foliated fixed wireless system / (Research) Information flow control for static enforcement of user-defined privacy policies

Sören Preibusch and Tien Han Chua.

SS03, William Gates Building.

Monday 09 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

Introduction to MILS and the LynuxWorks Separation Kernel

Rance DeLong, LynuxWorks Inc..

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

The Bluespec hardware definition language

Joe Stoy, Bluespec Inc..

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 04 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

Reflection on Java Security and Its Practical Impacts

Li Gong.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 04 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

Architectures for Practical Client-Side Security

Virgil Gligor, Carnegie Mellon University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 15:45-16:45

CTSRD: Capability CPUs revisited

Peter Neumann, SRI International / Robert Watson, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 14:45-15:45

An overview of the DARPA CRASH research programme

Howie Shrobe, DARPA.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 May 2011, 14:15-14:45

Computer Laboratory Automated Reasoning Group Lunches

Using the Cambridge ARM model to verify the concrete machine code of seL4

Magnus Myreen (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 13:15-14:00

Mobile Social Networks and Context-Awareness: Usage, Privacy and a Solution to Texting While Driving?

Janne Lindqvist (Carnegie Mellon University).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 13 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

What is Software Assurance?

John Rushby, SRI International.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 April 2011, 16:15-17:15

Netalyzr: Network Measurement as a Network Security Problem

Nicholas Weaver, ICSI and UC Berkeley.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 06 April 2011, 14:00-15:00

Caveat coercitor: towards coercion-evident elections

Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 15 March 2011, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Promoting location privacy... one lie at a time

Daniele Quercia (University of Cambridge).

SS03 of the Computer Lab.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Reasoning about Software Safety Integrity and Assurance

Tim Kelly, University of York.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

A report on the IAB/W3C Internet Privacy Workshop

Dr. David Evans (Computer Laboratory).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Reverse Engineering Malware

Hassen Saidi, SRI International.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 09 December 2010, 14:15-15:15

Bumping attacks: the affordable way of obtaining chip secrets

Sergei Skorobogatov - Computer Laboratory ( University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 07 December 2010, 16:15-17:15

Physical Attacks on PIN Entry Devices

Matt Scott, ACI Worldwide.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 23 November 2010, 16:15-17:15

The distribution of different sources of malware

Francis Turner, ThreatSTOP Inc..

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 16 November 2010, 16:15-17:15

Privacy preserving smart-metering

George Danezis, Microsoft Research.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 09 November 2010, 16:15-17:15

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Using SAT Solvers for Cryptographic Problems

Mate Soos, Pierre and Marie Curie University.

Small lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Friday 05 November 2010, 14:00-15:00

An investigation into Chinese cybercrime and the underground economy in comparison with the West

Michael Yip, University of Southampton.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 02 November 2010, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Understanding Cyberattack as an Instrument of U.S. Policy

Herbert Lin (The National Academies, USA).

LT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Monday 25 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Across the Pond: An Update on Health Privacy and Health Data Security. How are American patients faring?

Deborah C. Peel, Founder and Chair, Patient Privacy Rights.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 20 October 2010, 16:15-17:15

Hierarchies, Lowerarchies, Anarchies, and Plutarchies: Historical Perspectives of Composably Layered High-Assurance Architectures

Peter Neumann, Principal Scientist, SRI International Computer Science Lab.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 October 2010, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Programming Research Group Seminar

Extracting the Semantic Signature of Malware, Metamorphic Viruses and Worms

RK Shyamasundar; Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

Colour, usability and computer security

Note unusual time

Jeff Yan, Newcastle University.

Room SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 01 July 2010, 16:15-17:15

Current Research Topics (Computer Laboratory) 2010-11

Side-Channel Cryptanalysis

Joseph Bonneau (Cambridge University).

LT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Tuesday 04 May 2010, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Digital Technology Group (DTG) Meetings

Privacy as a competitive advantage

Sören Preibusch.

SS03, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 May 2010, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Detecting Temporal Sybil Attacks

Neal Lathia (UCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Internet Voting: Threat or Menace

Jeremy Epstein, SRI International.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 27 April 2010, 16:15-17:15

Current Research Topics (Computer Laboratory) 2010-11

Building Secure Systems On and For Social Networks

Nishanth Sastry.

LT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Monday 26 April 2010, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Privacy in Advertising: Not all Adware is Badware

Paul Francis - MPI Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 21 April 2010, 14:15-15:15

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Declassification Policy Inference

Jeff Vaughan (Harvard University).

Room FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 16 April 2010, 14:00-15:00

The Path Towards Scalable Practical Security for Web Transactions

Dr Corrado Ronchi, EISST Ltd.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 18 March 2010, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

How Google Tests Software

James Whittaker (Google).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Aura: A Programming Language with Authorization and Audit

Steve Zdancewic - University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 14:15-15:15

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

Chip and PIN -- notes on a dysfunctional security system

Saar Drimer, Computer Lab.

Lecture Theatre 1, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, J J Thompson Avenue, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 18:30-20:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Detecting Sybil attacks and recommending social contacts from proximity records

Daniele Quercia (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk, Security and Terrorism

Professor Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 19 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Proactive Fraud Management over Financial Data Streams

Pedro Sampaio, University of Manchester.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 21 January 2010, 14:15-15:15

The impact of incident vs. forensic response

Andrew Sheldon (Evidence Talks).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 19 January 2010, 16:15-17:15

Networks (Operations Research)

Anonymity via networks of mixes

Venkat Anantharam, EECS Department, University of California Berkeley..

MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 18 January 2010, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Security Architectures for Distributed Social Networks

Jonathan Anderson (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 10 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

MPhil Mini-Symposium Security Talks

MPhil students, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 04 December 2009, 10:00-11:10

Understanding scam victims: Seven principles for systems security

Frank Stajano, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 17 November 2009, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Opera Group Seminars

The Elephant in the Room: Health Information System Security and the User-Level Environment

Juanita Fernando (Monash University).

Room FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Surveillance in Speculative Fiction: Have Our Artists Been Sufficiently Imaginative?

Roger Clarke, University of New South Wales.

FW11.

Monday 02 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Aggregated Security Monitoring in 10GB networks

Nathan Macrides and Nick McKenzie - Security Engineering, RBS.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Policing Online Games -- Defining A Strong, Mutually Verifiable Reality in Virtual Games

Peter Wayner.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 26 October 2009, 16:15-17:15

Optical surveillance on silicon chips: your crypto keys are visible

Sergei Skorobogatov.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 October 2009, 16:15-17:15

So Long, And No Thanks for the Externalities: The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users

Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research, Redmond.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 15 September 2009, 16:15-17:15

Efficient Implementation of Physical Random Bit Sources

Richard Newell, Actel.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 30 June 2009, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Online Social Networks and Applications: a Measurement Perspective

Ben Zhao (UCSB).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Friday 29 May 2009, 11:00-12:00

Computer Laboratory Digital Technology Group (DTG) Meetings

(Research) Bluetooth Tracking without Discoverability / (Skills) Deploying web user authentication with Shibboleth

Simon Hay and Sören Preibusch.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 18 May 2009, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

PeerSoN: Privacy-Preserving P2P Social Networks

Sonja Buchegger (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Whither Challenge Question Authentication?

Mike Just, University of Edinburgh.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 May 2009, 16:15-17:15

A conversation with Phil Zimmermann

Phil Zimmerman.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 17:00-18:00

Bypassing Physical Security Systems

Marc Weber Tobias, Investigative Law Offices.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Digital Technology Group (DTG) Meetings

(Research) OpenRoomMap: Mapping the Gates building / (Skills) Best Papers Lent 2009

Andrew Rice and DTG members.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 27 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

Cloning MiFare Classic rail and building passes, anywhere, anytime

Nicolas Courtois, University College London.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 07 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Pointless Tainting? Evaluating the practicality of pointer tainting

Asia Slowinska (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 26 March 2009, 16:00-16:30

Privacy Implications of Public Listings on Social Networks

Joseph Bonneau, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 24 March 2009, 16:15-17:15

High Assurance Smart Cards for Multinational Coalitions and Other Applications of National Security

Paul Karger, IBM Watson Research Center.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 19 March 2009, 15:00-16:00

The Effectiveness of T-way Test Data Generation

Michael Ellims.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Securing Virtual Machine Monitors: What is Needed?

Paul Karger (IBM Research - Watson).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Friday 06 March 2009, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Group meeting presentations

Mobile malware prevention using temporal information

John Tang, Computer Laboratory.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 27 February 2009, 16:00-16:30

Computer Laboratory Security Group meeting presentations

Security lessons from embedded devices

Philip Paeps, FreeBSD security team.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 20 February 2009, 16:00-16:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Privacy and HCISec: Notes From The Front

Alma Whitten - Google.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Wedge: Splitting Applications into Reduced-Privilege Compartments

Andrea Bittau (UCL).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Privacy-Preserving 802.11 Access-Point Discovery

Janne Lindqvist - Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 February 2009, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Opera Group Seminars

An overview of the Smart Flow project

David Eyers (University of Cambridge).

Room FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 February 2009, 14:30-15:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

A Framework for the Analysis of Mix-Based Steganographic File Systems

Claudia Diaz - Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), K.U.Leuven, Belgium.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Improving Cache Performance while Mitigating Software Side-Channel Attacks

Ruby Lee - Princeton University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 16:15-17:15

Hardware security: trends and pitfalls of the past decade

Sergei Skorobogatov - Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 20 January 2009, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Security Group meeting presentations

How secure is my messaging protocol for clinical communication?

Mohammed Al-Ubaydli.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 16 January 2009, 16:00-16:30

Identity Theft and the Mobile Device

Andy Jones - Head of Information Security Research, Centre for Information & Security Systems Research, BT Innovate.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 January 2009, 16:15-17:15

Bayesian Inference and Traffic Analysis

Carmela Troncoso, Microsoft Research Cambridge/KU Leuven(COSIC).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 09 December 2008, 16:15-17:15

Talking to strangers

Bruce Christianson, University of Hertfordshire.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 02 December 2008, 16:15-17:15

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Dynamics, robustness and fragility of trust

NOTE THE UNUSUAL TIME

Dusko Pavlovic.

Room FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 28 November 2008, 14:45-15:45

Economics of architectural change: resistance to distributed denial of service attacks

Mikko Särelä, NomadicLab, Ericsson.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Group meeting presentations

The robustness of CAPTCHAs

Jeff Yan, Newcastle University.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 21 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Is the Operating System the Right Place to Address Mobile Phone Security?

Craig Heath, Symbian.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Improving Tor using a TCP-over-DTLS Tunnel

Joel Reardon, University of Waterloo.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 November 2008, 16:15-17:45

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

How to Protect your Data by Eliminating Trusted Storage Infrastructure

David Mazieres - Stanford University.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 14:15-15:15

Browsing with the enemy: a German view

Please note the extended duration.

Kai Buchholz-Stepputtis and Boris Hemkemeier.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 16:15-17:45

Electronic health records: which is worse, the UK system or the US System?

Please note the unusual day

Deborah C. Peel, Patient Privacy Rights.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 05 September 2008, 16:00-17:00

Advances in Hash Cryptanalysis

Christian Rechberger, IAIK, Graz University of Technology.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 24 June 2008, 16:15-17:15

"Fourteen Thousand Messages"

John Levine.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 17 June 2008, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Opera Group Seminars

Privacy-preserving datagram delivery for ubiquitous systems

David Evans (Computer Laboratory).

Room FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 20 May 2008, 14:30-15:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Copyright vs Community

Please note the extended duration

Richard Stallman, www.gnu.org.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 April 2008, 14:15-16:00

"From the Casebooks of..."

Mark Seiden.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 29 April 2008, 16:15-17:15

Fighting online crime

Note unusual day

Mikko Hyppönen, Chief Research Officer, F-Secure Corporation.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 16:15-17:15

Process isolation for cloud computing using commodity operating systems

Wenbo Mao, Director and Chief Engineer, EMC Research China.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 15 April 2008, 16:15-17:15

An Empirical Analysis of Phishing Attack and Defense

Tyler Moore (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 08 April 2008, 16:15-17:15

Minimal TCB Code Execution

Jonathan M. McCune, Carnegie Mellon University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 25 March 2008, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Security Group meeting presentations

MD5crypt and GBDE: observations of a non-union cryptographer

Poul-Henning Kamp.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 29 February 2008, 16:00-16:30

Is SSL provably secure ?

Nigel Smart, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 22 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

Hardware defences against side channel and invasive attacks

Philip Paul, Computer Lab, University of Cambridge.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 13 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

Hot or Not: Fingerprinting hosts through clock skew

Steven J. Murdoch (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Defence against the Dark Arts

Mike Prettejohn, Netcraft.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Exploiting Online Games

Note unusual time and room

Gary McGraw, CTO, Cigital.

Room FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 29 January 2008, 10:30-11:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Searching for Evil

Ross Anderson and Richard Clayton, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 January 2008, 14:15-15:15

Towards interactive belief, knowledge, and provability: possible application to zero-knowledge proofs

Simon Kramer, École Polytechnique Paris.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 December 2007, 16:15-17:15

Tracking the Russian Business Network (RBN)

Jart Armin.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 11 December 2007, 16:15-17:15

Graphical passwords: some recent results

Note special time and day of week

Jeff Yan, University of Newcastle.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 07 December 2007, 16:00-17:00

The Anti-Bank: the privatized delivery of social grants using biometric encrypted smart-cards in southern Africa

Keith Breckenridge, Professor of History and Internet Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 December 2007, 16:15-17:15

Networked information processing and privacy in Japan

Andrew A. Adams, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 27 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Authentication protocols based on human interaction in security pervasive computing

Nguyen Hoang Long, Oxford University Computing Laboratory.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 November 2007, 16:15-17:15

Key amplification in unstructured networks

Shishir Nagaraja, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 30 October 2007, 16:15-17:15

Synergy of crime science and security engineering

Shaun Whitehead.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 16 October 2007, 16:15-17:15

High security locks: illusion or reality

Marc Weber Tobias.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 02 October 2007, 16:15-17:15

The economics of revealing and protecting private information: Evidence from human subject experiments and surveys

Note unusual day of the week

Jens Grossklags, School of Information, University of California Berkeley.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 30 July 2007, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Smart-card based authentication on an insecure network

Peter Sweeney, Centre for Communication Systems Research, University of Surrey..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

Realities of online banking fraud

Matthew Pemble, Vizuri.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 15 May 2007, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Opera Group Seminars

Alertme.com - implementing wireless home security 2.0

Amyas Phillips, Alertme.com.

Room FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 15 May 2007, 14:30-15:30

Towards open trusted computing frameworks

Matt Barrett.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 08 May 2007, 16:15-17:15

The commercial malware industry

Peter Gutmann, University of Auckland.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 01 May 2007, 16:15-17:15

Phishing tips and techniques: tackle, rigging, and how and when to phish

Note unusual time of talk in addition to our regularly scheduled one

Peter Gutmann, University of Auckland.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 01 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

Alternative security mechanisms for WiFi networks

Daniel Cvrcek, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 06 March 2007, 16:15-17:15

Power analysis attacks

Elisabeth Oswald, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 27 February 2007, 16:15-17:15

Anonymity in the wild: Mixes on unstructured networks

Shishir Nagaraja, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 February 2007, 16:15-17:15

Data sharing and privacy in multi-agency working

Adam Warren, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 06 February 2007, 16:15-17:15

A reciprocation-based economy for multiple services in P2P grids

Miranda Mowbray, HP Labs Bristol UK.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 30 January 2007, 16:15-17:15

Privacy preserving censorship

Yvo Desmedt, Department of Computer Science, University College London.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 23 January 2007, 16:15-17:15

Politics of Internet Security

Richard Allan, Cisco.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 November 2006, 16:15-17:15

Optically enhanced position-locked power analysis

Sergei Skorobogatov, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 31 October 2006, 16:15-17:15

Becoming paranoid or, How I learned to start worrying and fear the Internet

George Neville-Neil.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 24 October 2006, 16:15-17:15

The Polygraph

Note unusual day of the week

Marc Weber Tobias, Investigative Law Offices.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 18 October 2006, 16:15-17:15

Distance bounding protocols: Authentication logic analysis

Note unusual room, day and hour

Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 06 October 2006, 16:00-17:00

Privacy preserving data mining in distributed databases

Ehud Gudes, Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 26 September 2006, 16:15-17:15

Daonity - Grid security with behaviour conformity from Trusted Computing

Wenbo Mao, HP Labs, China.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 19 September 2006, 16:15-17:15

Peer-to-peer network topologies and anonymity

Nikita Borisov, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 08 September 2006, 16:00-17:00

Milk or wine: does software security improve with age?

Andy Ozment, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 25 July 2006, 16:15-17:15

Bluetooth Simple Pairing: public key cryptography in adhoc wireless systems

Robin Heydon and Steven Wenham, CSR.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 16 June 2006, 16:15-17:15

Opening locks by bumping in five seconds or less: is it really a threat to physical security?

Note change from originally publicized time

Marc Weber Tobias, Investigative Law Offices.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 23 May 2006, 14:15-15:15

Network Security Monitoring

Richard Bejtlich, TaoSecurity.

Room FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 19 May 2006, 16:00-17:00

CCTV in the UK: A failure of theory or a failure of practice?

Martin Gill, PRCI Ltd.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 17 May 2006, 14:15-15:15

An overview of vulnerability research and exploitation

Peter Winter-Smith and Chris Anley, NGS Software.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 16 May 2006, 16:15-17:15

On inverting the VMPC one-way function

Kamil Kulesza, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 09 May 2006, 16:15-17:15

Enhancing Signature-based Collaborative Spam Detection

Jeff Yan, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 31 March 2006, 16:00-17:00

Security Flaws in Tunnel Mode IPsec

Kenny Paterson, Royal Holloway, University of London.

FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 07 March 2006, 16:15-17:15

Hiding on an Ethernet

Richard Clayton, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 February 2006, 16:15-17:15

Design and implementation of a CC CAPP-compliant audit subsystem for the Mac OS X and FreeBSD operating systems

Robert N M Watson, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 February 2006, 16:15-17:15

Covert channels in TCP/IP: attack and defence

Steven J. Murdoch, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 31 January 2006, 16:15-17:15