On the critical path to implant backdoors and the effectiveness of potential mitigation techniques: Learnings from XZ

Mario Lins, Johannes Kepler University Linz.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Design and Verification of Byzantine Fault Tolerant CRDTs

Liangrun Da, Technical University of Munich.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 15 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Federated Deep Learning for Intrusion Detection in Smart Critical Infrastructure

Segun Popoola, Anglia Ruskin University.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Tracking the Takes and Trajectories of News Narratives from Trustworthy and Worrisome Websites

Hans Hanley, Stanford University.

Webinar & FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 08 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Decision-making in cybercriminal underground spaces. Where to go, and why?

Luca Allodi, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Developing Technical Interventions for Technical Abuse

Kieron Ivy Turk, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

The Curious Case of Big Phishes in The Netherlands

Hugo Bijmans, TNO & TU Delft.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 08 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Latency-aware routing in mix networks

Mahdi Rahimi, KU Leuven.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 20 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data-Agnostic Model Poisoning to Manipulating Federated Learning

Kai (Lukas) Li, CISTER research centre, Portugal.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 16 July 2024, 14:00-15:00

How Misinformation Creators (Ab)use Generative AI Tools

Amelia (Mia) Hassoun, University of Cambridge.

Computer Lab, FW11.

Tuesday 11 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

The end of world as we know it

Arturo Bejar.

GS15, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 07 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Automated detection of cryptocurrency investment scams at scale

Jose Gilberto Atondo Siu (University of Cambridge).

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 07 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

A biography of Tor - a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, and global politics at the internet's core

Ben Collier, University of Edinburgh.

Online & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 26 April 2024, 17:00-18:00

Applications of proofs to network security

Joseph Bonneau, New York University.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 23 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Legal Concepts in Cybersecurity and Privacy for Digital & Smart Environments

Raj Sachdev, Cornell University & Plymouth State.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 02 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Data Poisoning and Fakes in Mobile, Web and Cyber Physical Systems

Soteris Demetriou, Imperial College London.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Mysticeti: Low-Latency DAG Consensus with Fast Commit Path

Alberto Sonnino, Mysten Labs.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

How to Catch an AI Liar: Lie Detection in Black-Box LLMs by Asking Unrelated Questions

Lorenzo Pacchiardi, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Characterizing Machine Unlearning through Definitions and Implementations

Nicolas Papernot, University of Toronto and Vector Institute.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Thursday 29 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Owl - an augmented password-authenticated key exchange protocol

Feng Hao, University of Warwick.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Securing the WebPKI in Practice: A tour of the technologies, politics and open problems

Dennis Jackson, Mozilla.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Dead Code Removal at Meta: Automatically Deleting Millions of Lines of Code and Petabytes of Deprecated Data

Will Shackleton, Meta.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

One Protocol to Rule Them All? On Securing Interoperable Messaging

Jenny Blessing (University of Cambridge).

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 26 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

A Comprehensive Study of the Extremist Narratives and the Role of Alternative Social Networks that Facilitate Radical Discourse

Antonis Papasavva, University College London.

Webinar & SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Two Sides of the Same Crime

Michael Dewar, Vice President for Data Science at Mastercard.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 19 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Differential Privacy: Theory to Practice for the 2020 US Census

Simson Garfinkel.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Monday 18 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Securing Supply Chains with Compilers

Nicholas Boucher, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 05 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

25 years of crypto wars and privacy tussles – where next?

Ross Anderson, Duncan Campbell, Ben Collier, Ahana Datta, Merlin Erroll, Gus Hosein, Julian Huppert, Jim Killock, Jen Persson, Sam Smith and Martyn Thomas.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Thursday 30 November 2023, 16:00-18:00

Human-producible Adversarial Examples

David Khachaturov, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning needs Better Randomness Standards: Randomised Smoothing and PRNG-based attacks

Pranav Dahiya, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 24 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Red teaming privacy-preserving systems using AI

Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Imperial College London.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Data, Identity and Governance: Evolution and Trajectory of Digital Public Infrastructure in India

Aakansha Natani, IIIT Hyderabad, India.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

CIA to AIC: Why Cyber Must Enable the Business

Keith A Price, Chief Security Officer, National Highways.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

A Tale of Two Internet (In)Security Problems

Michael Schapira, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Webinar & FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

On the Insecurity of PLC Systems

Eli Biham, Technion.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 19 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

EviHunter: Identifying Digital Forensic Artifacts from Android Apps/Devices via Static & Dynamic Analysis + Android™ App Forensic Artifacts Database

Yong Guan, Iowa State University.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 21 July 2023, 16:00-17:00

A View of the Dark Web through the Lens of NLP and Language Modeling

Youngjin Jin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST).

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 27 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

The Unlearning Problem(s)

Anvith Thudi, University of Toronto.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

The Nym mixnet: Design and Evaluation

Harry Halpin & Ania Piotrowska, Nym Technologies.

Webinar & SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

The INCEL Movement: A New Form of Technology-Facilitated Abuse

Melissa Hamilton, University of Surrey.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Testing the Effectiveness of Targeted Financial Sanctions on Russia: Law or War?

Jason Sharman, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Algorithms and the criminal justice system: promises and challenges in deployment and research

Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

On the motivations and challenges of affiliates involved in cybercrime

Masarah Paquet-Clouston, Université de Montréal.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

No One to Blame, but... : Fear and Failure in Securing Large Organisations

Ahana Datta, University College London.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Binary Stars: How Crime Shapes Insurance and Insurance Shapes Crime

Anja Shortland, King's College London.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Influence Policing: Mapping the Rise of Strategic Communications and Digital Behaviour Change within UK Law Enforcement and Security Services

Note unusual time

Ben Collier, University Of Edinburgh.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

A Sociotechnical Audit: Assessing Police use of Facial Recognition

Note unusual time

Evani Radiya-Dixit, Minderoo Centre for Tech & Democracy.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 13 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

The Security of Post-Quantum Telco Networks, or changing 10 billion door-locks in 197 countries

Zygmunt A Lozinski, IBM.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Bad men, good men, and loving women: Gender Constructions in the UK’s Online Action Counters Terrorism (ACT) Campaign

Harmonie Toros, University of Kent.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Towards Meaningful Stochastic Defences in Machine Learning

Ilia Shumailov, University of Oxford.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Picking on locks: early security, cybersecurity, and the sophisticated criminal trope.

Yanna Papadodimitraki, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Secure and efficient networks

Oleh Stupak, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Technology-Facilitated Abuse: The Role of Tech in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence

Leonie Tanczer, University College London.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Generative Language Model, Deepfake, and Fake News 2.0: Scenarios and Implications

Dongwon Lee, Penn State University.

Webinar & LT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Analog vs. Digital Epsilons: Implementation Considerations for Differential Privacy

Olya Ohrimenko, University of Melbourne.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 19 August 2022, 16:00-17:00

Mapping the Geography of Cybercrime - findings from an expert survey

Miranda Bruce, University of Oxford.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 15 July 2022, 16:00-17:00

No Spring Chicken: Quantifying the Lifespan of Exploits in IoT Malware Using Static and Dynamic Analysis

Arwa Al Alsadi, Delft University of Technology.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 14 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Exploring Internet services mis-configuration at scale

Danny Willems and Gregory Boddin, LeakIX; Raphael Proust, Nomadic Labs.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 10 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Reward Sharing for Mixnets

Claudia Diaz, KU Leuven.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

PostCog: A “Search Engine” Enabling Interdisciplinary Research into Underground Forums at Scale

Anh V. Vu, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 27 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Are You Really Muted?: A Privacy Analysis of Mute Buttons in Video Conferencing Apps

Kassem Fawaz, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

VerLoc: Verifiable Localization in Decentralized Systems

Katharina Kohls, Radboud University.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

“You’re never left alone:” the use of digital technologies in domestic abuse

Lisa Sugiura, Jason R.C. Nurse, Jacki Tapley and Chloe Hawkins.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

The gap between research and practice in authentication

Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 03 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Attacking and Fixing the Bitcoin Network

Muoi Tran, National University of Singapore.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 26 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Risk and Resilience: Promoting Adolescent Online Safety and Privacy through Human-Centered Computing

Pamela Wisniewski, University of Central Florida.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 22 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Design rules and Maxims for insecurity engineering for lock designs

Note unusual time and location

Marc Weber Tobias, School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 18 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Sex, money, and the mating market: How big data helps us understand sexual politics

Note unusual time

Khandis Blake, University of Melbourne.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page from Monday afternoon.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning in context of Computer Security

Ilia Shumailov, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Trojan Source: Invisible Vulnerabilities

Nicholas Boucher, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Incident Response as a Lawyers' Service

Daniel Woods, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Transcending Transcend: Revisiting Malware Classification with Conformal Evaluation

Federico Barbero, University of Cambridge.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 18 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Hansa Market, Cyberbunker, and Encrochat: The Security Practices of Organized Crime

Erik van de Sandt, Dutch National Police and University of Bristol.

Webinar.

Friday 14 January 2022, 15:00-16:00

Why Johnny doesn’t write secure software?

Awais Rashid, University of Bristol.

Webinar.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 15:00-16:00

Securing the Future: Futures Literacy in Cyber Security

Genevieve Liveley, University of Bristol.

Webinar.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Teardown of encrypted USB Flash drives

Sergei Skorobogatov, University of Cambridge.

LT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cybersecurity for Democracy: Providing Independent Auditing Frameworks for Platform Accountability

Damon McCoy, New York University.

Webinar.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Blind Backdoors in Deep Learning

Eugene Bagdasaryan, Cornell Tech.

Webinar.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Computational Methods to Measure and Mitigate Weaponized Online Information

Gianluca Stringhini, Boston University.

Webinar.

Monday 01 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Resilient Machine Learning: A Systems-Security Perspective

Roei Schuster, Cornell Tech.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Super-Posters in Extremist Forums

Stephane Baele, University of Exeter .

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

It's not only the dark web: Distributed surface web marketplaces

Constantinos Patsakis, University of Piraeus.

Webinar.

Tuesday 20 July 2021, 14:00-15:00

Apple, App Tracking Transparency, and the Hidden Costs of More Privacy

Sam Gilbert, University of Cambridge.

Webinar.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

FastPay: High-Performance Byzantine Fault Tolerant Settlement

Alberto Sonnino, UCL.

Webinar.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Mix-net cryptoeconomics: Rebooting privacy-preserving communications as incentive-driven collaborative projects

Aggelos Kiayias, University of Edinburgh.

Webinar - link in abstract.

Tuesday 27 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Dark web marketplaces and COVID-19: Flexible and resilient

Andrea Baronchelli, City University of London and The Alan Turing Institute.

Webinar.

Tuesday 23 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Understanding Modern Phishing

Brad Wardman and Adam Oest, PayPal.

Webinar.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Deep Learning Assisted Side-Channel Attacks

Elena Dubrova, KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Webinar.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Crowdsourcing Security Research: A case study of AdObserver

Laura Edelson and Damon McCoy, New York University.

Webinar.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Dmitry goes to Hollywood: Criminal Excellence in (Cyber) La La Land

Luca Allodi, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Webinar.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

A Liar and a Copycat: Nonverbal Coordination Increases with Lie Difficulty

Sophie van der Zee, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Webinar.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cybersecurity Risk to Hospitals from Building Services

Sheryn Gillin, University of Cambridge.

Webinar.

Tuesday 09 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Towards Provable Physical Safety Against False Actuation Attacks in CPS

Alvaro Cardenas, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Webinar.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

User Privacy Concerns and Preferences in Smart Buildings

Maryam Mehrnezhad, Newcastle University.

Webinar.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

The Android Platform Security Model (and the security status of actual devices)

René Mayrhofer (Johannes Kepler University Linz).

Virtual (see abstract for Zoom link).

Monday 30 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Alternative sanctions for juvenile criminal hackers: The evaluation of the Dutch “Hack_Right” intervention

Rutger Leukfeldt, NSCR.

Webinar.

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cultural Convergence in the time of COVID

Alicia Bargar and Erin McAweeney, Graphika.

Webinar.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Hardware and Software Fingerprinting of Mobile Devices

Jiexin (Stan) Zhang, University of Cambridge.

Webinar.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

SHB Seminar

Multiple Speakers.

Webinar.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 14:00-16:00

Eavesdropping at Scale: Shifting the Threat Model in Satellite Broadband

James Pavur, University of Oxford.

Webinar.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Plundervolt: How a Little Bit of Undervolting Can Create a Lot of Trouble

Kit Murdock, University of Birmingham.

Webinar.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Sponge Examples: Energy-Latency Attacks on Neural Networks

Ilia Shumailov, University of Cambridge.

Webinar.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

TRRespass: Exploiting the Many Sides of Target Row Refresh

Kaveh Razavi, ETH Zurich.

Webinar.

Tuesday 02 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Collaborative Deanonymization

Rainer Böhme, University of Innsbruck.

Webinar.

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Understanding Privacy-Related Questions on Stack Overflow

Kami Vaniea, University of Edinburgh.

Webinar.

Tuesday 19 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

The politics of data-driven governance

Lina Dencik, Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University.

Webinar.

Tuesday 12 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Tech Abuse in the Intimate Partner Violence Setting: Issues, Challenges, and Mitigations

Damon McCoy, New York University.

Webinar.

Tuesday 05 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

SEAL: sealed-bid auction without auctioneers

Feng Hao, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick.

Webinar.

Tuesday 28 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Trustable Hardware as a TOCTOU Problem: Overview and Potential Remedies

Dr. Andrew 'bunnie' Huang, Independent Researcher.

Webinar.

Tuesday 21 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Product Design, Liability, and Insecurity Engineering

Marc Weber Tobias, School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Measuring Cryptocurrency Fraud

Marie Vasek, Department of Computer Science, UCL.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

On the Effectiveness of Generating Adversarial Examples for Evading Blackbox Malware Classifiers

Dr Sadia Afroz, ICSI, UC Berkeley, Avast.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Security economics to inform behaviour change support

Simon Parkin, Information Security Group, University College London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

It's Damn Hard to Decentralise the Web

Gareth Tyson, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Radio Protocol Vulnerabilities in 5G Networks

Ravishankar Borgaonkar, SINTEF Digital.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Realistic Adversarial Machine Learning

Nicholas Carlini, Google Brain.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 11 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Automatically Dismantling Online Dating Fraud

Matthew Edwards, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Reducing Metadata Leakage from Encrypted Files and Communication

Nikitin Kirill, Decentralized/Distributed Systems Lab, EPFL.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

An analysis of the threats of the consumer spyware industry

Diarmaid Harkin, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 12 September 2019, 14:00-15:00

Deploying Differential Privacy for the 2020 Census of Population and Housing

Simson L. Garfinkel, Senior Computer Scientist for Confidentiality and Data Access, U.S. Census Bureau.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 23 July 2019, 14:00-15:00

rust-vmm: Building the Virtualization Stack of the Future

Andreea Florescu, Amazon.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Firecracker microVMs - How to Securely Run Thousands of Workloads on a Single Host

Diana Popa, Amazon.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

A Promise Is A Promise: The Effect Of Commitment Devices On Computer Security Intentions

Alisa Frik, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), University of California Berkeley.

LT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Securing Systems with Insecure Hardware

Kaveh Razavi, Systems and Network Security Group, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

“Doing more” to keep children safe online – why the tech sector can only do so much

Andy Phippen, University of Plymouth.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Thunderclap: Exploring Vulnerabilities Operating System IOMMU Protection via DMA from Untrustworthy Peripherals

Theo Markettos, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 14:00-14:45

Keeping authorities honest with verifiable append-only logs, and making backdoored software updates detectable

Mustafa Al Bassam, Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Evil on the Internet

Richard Clayton, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 14:00-16:00

Trustworthy and Accountable Function-as-a-Service using Intel SGX

Andrew Paverd, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Function-Based Access Control

Yvo G. Desmedt, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas.

FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

The ideal versus the real: A brief history of secure isolation in virtual machines and containers

Allison Randal, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Displacing big data: How cybercriminals cheat the system

Alice Hutchings, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

You think you're not a target? A tale of three developers

Chris Lamb, Debian Project Leader.

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

The Guardian Council: Using many-core architectures to support programmable hardware security

Sam Ainsworth, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Combating a hydra: Islamic State's digital jihad as a threat to international security

Miron Lakomy, Department of International Relations, University of Silesia.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 16 July 2018, 15:00-16:00

Detecting Spies in Sensor-Rich Environments using Cyber-Physical Correlation

Brent Lagesse, University of Washington Bothell (visiting Cambridge as a Fulbright Scholar).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Ethical Issues in Network Measurement

Shehar Bano, Dept. of Computer Science, University College London (UCL).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Data science approaches to understanding key actors on online hacking forums

Sergio Pastrana/Andrew Caines, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Wireless Physical-layer Security: Fundamentals and Jamming with Coding for Secrecy

João P. Vilela, Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 27 March 2018, 14:00-15:00

Large Scale Ubiquitous Data Sources for Crime Prediction

Cristina Kadar, ETH Zurich.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Psychological predictors of risky online behaviour: The cases of online piracy and privacy

Piers Fleming, School of Psychology, University of East Anglia.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 15:00-16:00

Anonymity in Cryptocurrencies

Sarah Meiklejohn, Information Security Group, University College London (UCL).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 30 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

The impact of cybercrime on businesses: A new conceptual framework and its application to Belgium

Letizia Paoli, Faculty of Law, University of Leuven.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

Bayes, not Naive: Security Bounds on Website Fingerprinting Defenses

Giovanni Cherubin, Information Security Group (ISG), Royal Holloway, University of London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Betrayal, Distrust, and Rationality: Smart Counter-Collusion Contracts for Verifiable Cloud Computing

Changyu Dong, School of Computing, Newcastle University.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Analysis and Classification of Android Malware

Lorenzo Cavallaro, Information Security Group (ISG), Royal Holloway, University of London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Conditional Linear Cryptanalysis

Eli Biham, Computer Science Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Protecting Analog Sensor Security

Kevin Fu, Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 28 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

abraCARDabra: understanding carding forums

Jeremiah Onaolapo, University College London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 27 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Anti-surveillance: Can Applied Cryptography, Law Enforcement, and Formal Methods be Friends?

Dr. Markulf Kohlweiss, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

What could we actually do about radicalisation, both online and offline?

Lydia Wilson, University of Oxford.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Improving the Impact of Smartphone Apps

Vincent Taylor, University of Oxford.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Free-Form Gesture Passwords: Security, Memorability, Usability

Janne Lindqvist, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, Rutgers University.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

CHERI - Architectural support for software memory protection and compartmentalisation

Robert N. M. Watson - University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 16:15-17:15

On the Privacy and Security of the Ultrasound Ecosystem

Vasilios Mavroudis, University College London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Trends in Online Payment Security

Mohammed Aamir Ali, Newcastle University.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 17 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Reversing chip design for hardware security characterization

Franck Courbon, Security group, University of Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Drammer: Deterministic Rowhammer Attacks on Mobile Platforms

Kaveh Razavi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Room SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 04 November 2016, 13:15-14:15

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

End-to-end encryption: Behind the scenes

D Vasile, M Kleppmann & D Thomas - University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 16:15-17:15

Putting wireless signal security in a system security context

note unusual date

Wade Trappe, Rutgers University.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 21 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

The Million-Key Question : Investigating the Origins of RSA Public Keys (Best Paper Award @ USENIX Security 2016)

Petr Svenda, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Semantics derived automatically from language corpora necessarily contain human biases

Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 11 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

Design for Security Test against Fault Injection Attack, and Fast Test with Compressive Sensing

Note unusual time and venue. Talk follows 14:00 to 14:45 talk.

Prof Huiyun Li, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 02 August 2016, 14:45-15:30

Cyberinsurance: good for your company, bad for your country?

Fabio Massacci - University of Trento.

Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

Understanding, Characterizing, and Detecting Facebook Like Farms

Dr. Emiliano De Cristofaro, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), University College London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 22 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Do You See What I See? Differential Treatment of Anonymous Users

Sheharbano Khattak, University of Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

The Unfalsifiability of security claims

Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research, Redmond.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Android security: Protecting users, a billion at a time

Adrian Ludwig, Android Security Team.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Identification and Investigation of Cyber Risk Hotspots in a Large Computer Network

Shahzad Awan, Cardiff University.

Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Decertifying the Worst Voting Machine in the US: Lessons Learned and Looking Forward

Jeremy Epstein, SRI International.

Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

nShield HSMs

Food provided so please register for the talk so that we can gauge numbers.

Richard Kettlewell, Thales.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 26 October 2015, 13:00-13:30

Dismantling Megamos Crypto: Wirelessly Lockpicking a Vehicle Immobilizer

Flavio Garcia, University of Birmingham.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Massively Parallel Hardware Security Platform

Petr Svenda, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 July 2015, 14:00-15:00

Making Better Privacy Decisions in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

Serge Egelman, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 26 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

Insecure processing of cookies in modern web applications and browsers

Dawid Czagan, Silesia Security Lab.

Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 02 June 2015, 14:30-15:30

Massively Parallel Hardware Security Platform

Petr Svenda, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Information-flow tracking for web technologies

Luciano Bello.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 19 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

On the power of techniques for defeating code reuse attacks + some retrospective reflection on the DARPA CRASH program

Prof Howie Shrobe (MIT).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

The Dutch electronic patient record system and beyond - towards physician-controlled decentralized medical record exchange.

Guido van 't Noordende, University of Amsterdam.

FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 04 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Captchas - the state of play

Dr Jeff Yan, Newcastle University.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 14:00-15:00

Understanding and Fighting Malicious Activity on Online Social Networks

Gianluca Stringhini, Assistant Professor, University College London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 April 2015, 14:00-15:00

Chupja--PHY Covert Channels: Can you see the Idles?

Hakim Weatherspoon, assistant professor, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 31 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

Nested Kernel: An Operating System Architecture for Intra-Kernel Privilege Separation

Nathan Dautenhahn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

Human factors and missed solutions to WWII Enigma design weaknesses

Prof. Harold Thimbleby CEng FIET FRCPE FLSW HonFRSA HonFRCP.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Single Password Authentication

Alptekin Küpçü, Assistant Professor, Cryptography, Security & Privacy Research Group, Koç University.

FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cloud-centric assured information sharing

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Executive Director of the Cyber Security Research Institute, The University of Texas at Dallas.

FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 11:00-12:00

Hacking is not random: a case-control study of webserver-compromise risk

Marie Vasek, PhD student in the Computer Science and Engineering department, Southern Methodist University (SMU).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 15:05-16:05

Bitcoin as a source of verifiable public randomness

Joseph Bonneau, Center For Information Technology Policy, Princeton.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 30 September 2014, 14:00-15:00

DP5: Privacy-preserving Presence Protocols

Ian Goldberg, University of Waterloo [currently on sabbatical at the University of Cambridge].

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 23 September 2014, 14:00-15:00

Micro-Policies: A Framework for Tag-Based Security Monitors

Benjamin C. Pierce, University of Pennsylvania.

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 10 September 2014, 13:00-14:00

From TLS to secure websites: the HTTPS landmine

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, Inria Paris, team Prosecco (Programming Securely with Cryptography.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 09 September 2014, 14:00-15:00

Safe Shell Scripting with Capabilities and Contracts

Scott Moore, PhD student, Harvard.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 29 July 2014, 15:15-16:15

Trust, Religion, and Tribalism: Reflections on the Sociological Data from the Balkans

Gorazd Andrejč, Junior Research Fellow, Woolf Institute, Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Security, Reliability and Backdoors

Dr Sergei Skorobogatov, Security Group, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Psychology of malware warnings

David Modic, Cambridge University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Protecting Programs During Resource Retrieval

Professor Trent Jaeger, CSE Department, Pennsylvania State University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 29 April 2014, 15:00-16:00

Website Fingerprinting

Nikita Borisov, University of Illinois.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 22 April 2014, 15:00-16:00

Bitcoin: A Full Employment Act for security engineers?

Joseph Bonneau, Center For Information Technology Policy, Princeton.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 March 2014, 15:00-16:00

Introduction to DNSSEC

Tony Finch, University of Cambridge Computing Service.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 25 February 2014, 15:00-16:00

On the (in)security of widely-used RFID access control systems

Dr. Flavio D. Garcia, University of Birmingham.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 11 February 2014, 15:00-16:00

The effect of decentralized behavioral decision making on system-level risk

Kim Kaivanto, Lancaster University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 February 2014, 15:00-16:00

Eavesdropping near field contactless payments: A quantitative analysis

Thomas P. Diakos, University of Surrey.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 January 2014, 15:00-16:00

Privacy/Proxy/Perfidy – what criminals (and others) put in domain whois

Dr Richard Clayton, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 14 January 2014, 15:00-16:00

Lawful Hacking: Using Existing Vulnerabilities for Wiretapping on the Internet.

Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, Columbia University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 23 December 2013, 16:15-17:15

Reviewing Cybercrime; Epistemology, Political Economy and Models

Dr Michael McGuire, University of Surrey.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 December 2013, 16:15-17:15

TESLA: Temporally-enhanced security logic assertions

Jonathan Anderson, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 26 November 2013, 16:15-17:15

SCION: Scalability, Control, and Isolation On Next-Generation Networks

Prof. Adrian Perrig, Department of Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 18 November 2013, 14:00-15:00

A day in the life of government cybersecurity

Ian Levy.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 November 2013, 16:15-17:15

Animals as Mobile Social Users

Tanya Berger-Wolf.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 05 November 2013, 16:15-17:15

In-depth crypto attacks: "It always takes two bugs"

Karsten Nohl, Security Research Labs.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 25 October 2013, 14:00-15:30

Psychology of scams

David Modic, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 22 October 2013, 16:15-17:15

TLS Security - Where Do We Stand?

Kenny Paterson, Royal Holloway.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 15 October 2013, 16:15-17:15

PHANTOM: A Parallel Architecture for Practical Oblivious Computation

Martin Maas, UC Berkeley.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 16:15-17:15

Distributed Electronic Rights in JavaScript

Mark S. Miller, Google.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 24 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Rendezvous: A search engine for binary code

Wei Ming Khoo, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 16:15-17:15

Pins, Tacks, and Slinks: Proposals for patching PKI on the web

Joseph Bonneau, Google.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 16:15-17:15

A novel, efficient, scalable and easy-to-use cryptographic key management solution for wireless sensor networks

Dr Michael Healy, University of Limerick .

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 16:15-17:15

CERB Banking: How to secure online banking and keep the users happy?

Pawel Jakub Dawidek.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 16:15-17:15

Protecting your website from hackers

Ben Mathews, Facebook.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 15 January 2013, 16:15-17:15

Protecting websites from social engineering attacks against your users

Christopher Palow, Facebook.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 December 2012, 16:15-17:15

Who's next? Identifying risk factors for subjects of targeted attacks

Martin Lee (Symantec).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 16:15-17:15

An Updated Threat Model for Security Ceremonies

Jean Martina (Federal University of Santa Catarina / Brazil).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 20 November 2012, 16:15-17:15

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Structural executable comparison, malware classification, and collaborative binary analysis - the formerly-zynamics tools at Google

Thomas Dullien, Google.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 14:15-15:15

Exploring compartmentalisation hypotheses with SOAAP

Khilan Gudka (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 23 October 2012, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

From geek-dream to mass-market: Will privacy-preserving technologies ever be adopted?

Hamed Haddadi (Queen Mary, University of London).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Analysis of FileVault 2: Apple's full disk encryption scheme

Omar Choudary (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 16:15-17:15

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Dynamically Enforcing Knowledge-based Security Policies

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 attendin

Michael Hicks, University of Maryland.

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

Friday 12 October 2012, 10:00-11:00

Aurasium: Practical Policy Enforcement for Android Applications

Rubin Xu (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 09 October 2012, 16:15-17:15

Technology Risk Management - Achilles Heels, Myths and Mirages

Note the change in timing

Tony Chew (Monetary Authority of Singapore).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 04 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Explorations of Science in Cyber Security

Greg Shannon (CERT and Carnegie Mellon University).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 01 October 2012, 15:00-16:00

Protecting Distributed Applications Through Software Diversity and Renewability

Christian Collberg, University of Arizona.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 27 September 2012, 16:15-17:15

Bromium: Task isolation through hardware-assisted virtualization

Ian Pratt, Bromium.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 31 July 2012, 16:15-17:15

Security Analysis of Industrial Control Systems

Arthur Gervais (Aalto University).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 10 July 2012, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Code-Level Formal Verification for Large Real Systems

Mark Staples (NICTA).

SS03, Computer Lab, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 27 June 2012, 11:00-12:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Towards Trustworthy Embedded Systems

Gernot Heiser (University of New South Wales/NICTA).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Friday 22 June 2012, 11:00-12:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Lock Inference in the Presence of Large Libraries

Khilan Gudka (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Attacks and defenses in decentralised botnets

Shishir Nagaraja (University of Birmingham).

SS03, Computer Lab, William Gates Building.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Some recent results on TLS and DTLS

Kenny Paterson (Royal Holloway).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 29 May 2012, 16:15-17:15

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Facebook and Privacy: The Balancing Act of Personality, Gender, and Relationship Currency

Daniele Quercia (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

CANCELLED: Structural executable comparison, malware classification, and collaborative binary analysis - the formerly-zynamics tools at Google

CANCELLED: will most likely be rescheduled for next term

Thomas Dullien, Google.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 14:15-15:15

Building Bankomat: Cash dispensers and the development of on-line, real-time networks in Britain and Sweden, c.1965-1985

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo (Bangor University).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 16:15-17:15

New evidence on consumers’ willingness to pay for privacy

Sören Preibusch (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 01 May 2012, 16:15-17:15

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Rekeyable Ideal Cipher from a Few Random Oracles

Elena Andreeva, K.U. Leuven.

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

Monday 23 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Confining the Ghost in the Machine: Using Types to Secure JavaScript Sandboxing

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

Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University.

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

Wednesday 18 April 2012, 10:30-11:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Efficient Cryptography for the Next Generation Secure Cloud

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Alptekin Küpçü, Koç University.

Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Tuesday 17 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

The science of guessing

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Joseph Bonneau (Cambridge University).

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

Thursday 05 April 2012, 09:30-10:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Towards Statistical Queries over Distributed Private User Data

Paul Francis (MPI-SWS).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Monday 02 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Non-Interactive Verifiable Computation

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Bryan Parno, Microsoft Research.

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

Wednesday 28 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Trustworthy Medical Device Software

Kevin Fu (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 20 March 2012, 16:15-17:15

Insecurity Engineering in Locks

Marc Weber Tobias.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 20 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Malleability in Modern Cryptography

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Markulf Kohlweiss, MSRC.

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

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 10:00-11:00

Computer Laboratory Automated Reasoning Group Lunches

A Proposed Framework for Analysing Security Ceremonies

Jean Martina (Federal University of Santa Catarina / Brazil).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Tuesday 28 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Don't kill my ads! Balancing Privacy in an Ad-Supported Mobile Application Market

Ilias Leontiadis (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Friday 24 February 2012, 14:00-14:30

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

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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

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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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

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

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

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