Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

A detailed analysis of how locks and physical security become vulnerable to attack

Marc Weber Tobias, Investigative Law Offices.

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

Friday 13 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Side-channel security requirements for electronic voting equipment

Markus Kuhn.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 06 December 2024, 14:00-14:30

New time for Security Group Friday meetings

Speaker to be confirmed.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 21 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

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

Turning Up the Dial: the Evolution of a Cybercrime Market Through Set-up, Stable, and Covid-19 Eras

Anh V. Vu, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Friday 23 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Issues with using CVEs, CWE classification, and associated resources to perform system security evaluations

Brett Gutstein.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 22 March 2019, 16:00-16:30

Bribery, cryptocurrencies and smart contracts

Joseph Bonneau, New York University.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:00-16:30

Antikernel: a decentralized secure hardware-software operating system architecture

Andrew D. Zonenberg, IOActive.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 15 December 2017, 16:00-16:30

SECURE project

embecosm.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 11 August 2017, 16:00-16:30

Building a secure bank from the ground up

Priyesh Patel, Daniel Chatfield, Monzo.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 09 June 2017, 16:00-16:45

1000 days of UDP amplification DDoS attacks

Daniel Thomas (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 21 April 2017, 16:00-16:30

Verifyable random bit generation

Joseph Bonneau, Stanford University.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 24 March 2017, 16:00-16:30

The human factor in software updates

Kami Vaniea, University of Edinburgh.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 25 November 2016, 16:00-16:30

AXIOM Beyond Encryption

Irwin Olian, ACME Cold Storage Inc..

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 28 October 2016, 16:00-16:30

A new packet filtering technique

Nik Sultana (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 11 March 2016, 16:00-16:30

Secure multipath communications

Marios O. Chaudary.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 27 November 2015, 16:20-16:40

Raven – attacks and countermeasures

Graham Rymer, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 30 October 2015, 16:20-16:40

About the (in)security of CAPTCHAs

Carlos Javier Hernández-Castro, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 30 October 2015, 16:00-16:20

Behavioral Decision Making in Interdependent Security Games

Ashish R. Hota, PhD Student, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Pico prototype

Fin Brown, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Friday 11 September 2015, 16:00-16:20

Pico: user authentication for Internet of Things

Alex Dalgleish and Agnes Cameron, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Friday 04 September 2015, 16:00-16:20

Informal talk about Wassenaar and/or work at our lab

Sergey Bratus, Dartmouth College.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Friday 05 June 2015, 16:00-16:20

John Ioannidis visits

Speaker to be confirmed.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 24 April 2015, 16:00-16:20

Applying game theory to cybersecurity problems

Nicola Dimitri, Professor of Economics, University of Siena.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 28 November 2014, 16:00-16:20

A Look at the Consequences of Internet Censorship Through an ISP Lens

Sheharbano Khattak, Cambridge University.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 24 October 2014, 16:00-16:45

Who by sound and who by ground, who by pin and who by skin: side-channel key extraction from PCs

Eran Tromer, Tel Aviv University.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 01 August 2014, 16:00-16:45

Orchestrated crime: the high yield investment fraud ecosystem

Jens Neisius, TU Munich.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 11 July 2014, 16:00-16:30

Oakland 2014 summary

Room changed

Steven Murdoch.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Friday 30 May 2014, 16:00-16:30

Chip and Skim: cloning EMV cards with the pre-play attack

Omar Choudary (Computer Laboratory).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 09 May 2014, 16:00-16:30

Building a Cyber eco-system

John Dale, handling partnering and M&A for Raytheon UK.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 02 May 2014, 16:00-16:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

(How) can we secure Internet routing?

Michael Schapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Friday 18 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Discussion on AG's recent Opinion concerning the Data Retention Directive

Note change of room to SS03 (for this day only)

Nora Ni Loideain, PhD Candidate in Law, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Friday 21 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Efficient Template Attacks

Omar Choudary ( Computer Laboratory).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 22 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Effect of Internet censorship on user behavior

Sheharbano Khattak, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 18 October 2013, 16:00-16:30

Selective Disclosure in Datalog-based Trust Management

Nik Sultana, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Friday 30 August 2013, 16:00-16:30

GPU-mediated direct-memory-access attacks in a smart phone

Marta Piekarska, Technische Universität Berlin.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 23 August 2013, 16:00-16:45

Meeting with CL System Administration

Graham Titmus, Computer Laboratory.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 12 July 2013, 16:00-16:30

De-anonymizing D4D datasets

Kumar Sharad, Computer Laboratory.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 05 July 2013, 16:00-16:30

Security informed safety

Robin Bloomfield.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 21 June 2013, 16:00-16:30

The great cyberscare

Thomas Rid.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 12 April 2013, 16:00-16:20

Facebook and privacy

Michal Kosinski.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 29 March 2013, 16:00-16:20

Facebook and privacy

Michael Kosinski.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Wednesday 27 March 2013, 16:00-16:20

Technology Risk Management Guidelines and Regulations for the Safety & Soundness of the Financial Industry in Singapore

Tony Chew (Monetary Authority of Singapore).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 05 October 2012, 16:00-16:45

crypt@b-it, ECRYPT Summer School, CHES 2012

Omar, Markus, Sergei.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Friday 14 September 2012, 16:00-16:55

Summary of ECRYPT II summer school

Omar Choudary ( Computer Laboratory).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 07 September 2012, 16:45-17:00

Title to be confirmed

Yuto Nakano.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 07 September 2012, 16:00-16:45

Weightless: a new standard for M2M communication

Steven Wenham (neul.com).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 24 August 2012, 16:00-16:45

Observation skill and personal safety – workshop

Ellis Weinberger.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 20 July 2012, 16:00-16:45

Perky "Canada" Has Own Privacy Governance, Laws

Tara Whalen, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 22 June 2012, 16:00-16:30

Title to be confirmed

José Manuel Liñares-Zegarra & Bernardo Batiz-Lazo.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 15 June 2012, 16:00-16:20

Polymorphic attacks against sequence-based software birthmarks

Wei Ming Khoo (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Friday 08 June 2012, 16:00-16:20

BGP security and where BGPSEC is heading

Dongting Yu.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 01 June 2012, 16:00-16:30

Title to be confirmed

Jonathan Millican (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 18 May 2012, 16:00-16:20

Malware analysis with multiple features

Najmi Zabidi.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 30 March 2012, 16:00-16:20

Automatic generation of the kernel integrity monitor and how to protect the integrity monitor itself

Yuki Kinebuchi and Hiromasa Shimada (Waseda University).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 02 March 2012, 16:00-16:30

Linguistic properties of multi-word passphrases

Joseph Bonneau.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 17 February 2012, 16:00-16:20

Encoding D-Bus protocol state machines for testing client implementations

Philip Withnall (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 03 February 2012, 16:00-16:30

Trends in sophisticated hacking

Richard Clayton (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 09 December 2011, 16:00-16:30

The security cost of cheap user interaction

Rainer Böhme, University of Münster.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 23 September 2011, 16:00-16:30

Hardware security in nanometer CMOS

Wayne Burleson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 08 July 2011, 16:00-17:00

The world needs something stronger than passwords which we can all use

Jonathan Craymer, PinPlus Limited.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 01 July 2011, 16:00-16:30

Title to be confirmed

Jie Han.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 15 April 2011, 16:00-16:30

Defragmentation of compressed bitstreams for H.264/AVC video evidence recovery

Andrew Lewis (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 18 March 2011, 16:00-16:30

Might Financial Cryptography Kill Financial Innovation? - The Curious Case of EMV

Omar Choudary ( Computer Laboratory).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 25 February 2011, 16:00-16:20

Do you Skyhoo? or Inside a killer IMBot

Wei Ming Khoo, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 19 November 2010, 16:00-16:20

Trip report for CHES and FDTC 2010

Sergei Skorobogatov.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 27 August 2010, 16:00-16:20

Trip report for PETS 2010

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

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 06 August 2010, 16:00-16:20

Side-Channel Attack Resistant ROM-Based AES S-Box

Ken Mai, Carnegie-Mellon University.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 30 July 2010, 16:00-16:30

MeLock

Peter Cowley.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 02 July 2010, 16:00-16:20

Title to be confirmed

Jonathan Parris, Intercede.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Friday 04 June 2010, 16:00-16:30

Smart card detective: an EMV interceptor

Omar Choudary, Computer Laboratory.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 28 May 2010, 16:00-16:20

Chip and PIN is broken

Practice talk for IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland)

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

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Friday 14 May 2010, 16:00-16:30

How I got sued by Facebook

Pete Warden.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Friday 30 April 2010, 16:00-16:30

A DRE-based e-voting scheme

Feng Hao.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Friday 09 April 2010, 16:00-16:30

Notes on security breaches

Matt Scott, ACI.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Friday 19 March 2010, 16:00-16:30

GPS jamming & interference (workshop report)

Markus Kuhn, Computer Laboratory.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Friday 12 March 2010, 16:00-16:30

Capsicum: Practical capabilities for UNIX

Robert Watson (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 26 February 2010, 16:00-16:30

Machiavelli confronts 21st century digital technology

George Danezis, Microsoft Research.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 29 January 2010, 16:00-16:30

Statistical Attacks on Personal Knowledge Questions

Joseph Bonneau, Cambridge University.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 22 January 2010, 16:00-16:25

Towards copy-evident JPEG images

Practice talk for Informatik 2009

Andrew Lewis (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 25 September 2009, 16:00-16:30

A spatial cloaking framework based on range search for nearest neighbor search

Hyoungschick Kim, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 18 September 2009, 16:00-16:30

Faster and timing-attack resistant AES-GCM

Emilia Kasper, KU Leuven.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 28 August 2009, 16:00-16:30

Conference report: Financial Cryptography 2009

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

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 06 March 2009, 16:00-16:30

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

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

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

The robustness of CAPTCHAs

Jeff Yan, Newcastle University.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

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

An introduction to EMV

Mike Bond.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 14 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

ATM Security 2008 Conference

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

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 31 October 2008, 16:00-16:30

Security economics

Pythagoras Petratos, Oxford University.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 19 September 2008, 16:00-16:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

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

Public understanding of risk (discussion)

David Spiegelhalter, DPMMS.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Friday 13 June 2008, 16:00-16:30

Thinking inside the box: system-level failures of tamper proofing

Practice talk for IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland)

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

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 09 May 2008, 16:00-16:30

On a new e-Voting scheme

Feng Hao.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 02 May 2008, 16:00-16:30

A Sybil-proof one-hop DHT

Chris Lesniewski-Laas, MIT.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Thursday 27 March 2008, 16:00-16:30

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

Healthcare data research

Philip Woodall.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 15 February 2008, 16:00-16:30

Summary of the 24th Chaos Communication Congress

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

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 18 January 2008, 16:00-16:30

The eStream stream-cipher contest

Emilia Käsper, ESAT, KU Leuven.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW09.

Friday 14 December 2007, 16:00-16:30

Security seminar presentation

Jeff Yan, University of Newcastle.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 07 December 2007, 16:00-16:30

Practical web application security

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

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 09 November 2007, 16:00-16:20

HCI perspectives on security

Luke Church (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 02 November 2007, 16:00-16:20

Discussion: Bi-directional authentication in TLS

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

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 19 October 2007, 16:00-16:30

Short presentation on research by the AFP Computer Forensic Team

Matt Thomson, Australian Federal Police.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 12 October 2007, 16:00-16:30

A new approach to E-banking

Practice talk for NordSec

Matthew Johnson, Computer Laboratory.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 05 October 2007, 16:00-16:30

Attacks on real-world wireless sensor networks

Frank Stajano, Dan Cvrcek, Matt Lewis.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

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

Summary of USENIX Security 2007

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

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 17 August 2007, 16:00-16:20

Protecting online games

Mike Bond.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 10 August 2007, 16:00-16:20

Exploiting concurrency vulnerabilities in system call wrappers

Practice talk for USENIX Security WOOT

Robert Watson (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 03 August 2007, 16:00-16:30

Keep your enemies close: Distance bounding against smartcard relay attacks

Practice talk for USENIX Security

Saar Drimer, CL.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 27 July 2007, 16:00-16:30

Cyberdice 2: Peer-to-peer gambling in presence of cheaters

Frank Stajano, Computer Laboratory.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 20 July 2007, 16:00-16:30

Cyberdice: peer-to-peer gambling in the presence of cheaters

Frank Stajano, Computer Laboratory.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 13 July 2007, 16:00-16:30

Experiences as an e-counting election observer

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

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 29 June 2007, 16:00-16:20

OpenHSM: An Open key life cycle protocol for Public Key Infrastructure's Hardware Security Modules

Jean Martina, Comupter Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 22 June 2007, 16:00-16:30

Boom! Headshot!

Mike Bond.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Rainbow Room.

Friday 01 June 2007, 16:00-16:30

On password-based key exchange

Feng Hao, Computer Laboratory.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 25 May 2007, 16:00-16:30

Composer in residence conversation

Alejandro Vinao.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 18 May 2007, 16:00-16:30

Resiliency aspects of security protocols

Practice talk for Security Protocols Workshop

Marcus Granado.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 13 April 2007, 16:00-16:30

Securing vehicular networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, EPFL.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW09.

Thursday 01 March 2007, 10:15-11:00

Towards a security policy for ubiquitous healthcare systems

JoonWoong Kim, Computer Laboratory.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 24 November 2006, 16:00-16:30

Identity-based and inter-domain password authenticated key exchange for pervasive systems

Ford Long Wong.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 17 November 2006, 16:00-16:30

Hot or Not: Revealing Hidden Services by their Clock Skew

Practice talk for ACM CCS

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

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 27 October 2006, 16:00-16:30

Cache collision timing attacks against AES

Joseph Bonneau, Stanford University.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 22 September 2006, 16:00-16:30