Month: September 2017

Mick Bhinder – Reinventing Identity Access Management

Presented at the SERENE-RISC Workshop Spring 2016 The discussion of cybersecurity is highly complex and struggles with the ever increasing rate of sophisticated cyberattacks and digital exploitation. Cybersecurity continues to fall low in prioritization amongst executive management where there is a denial for a need of protection against such attacks. The discussion in today’s technological …

SERENE-RISC Fall 2017 Workshop | L’atelier SERENE-RISC de l’automne 2017

[ Le français suit ] SERENE-RISC Fall 2017 Workshop SERENE-RISC’s Workshops feature world-renowned experts and bring together Canadian and international cybersecurity policy-makers, practitioners and researchers from government, industry and academia. The Workshops enable evidence-based discussions on the nature of current and emerging threats, the challenges they pose to a diverse range of stakeholders, and what …

I Don’t Use Apple Pay Because It’s Less Secure …: Perception of Security and Usability in Mobile Tap-and-Pay

Apple Pay was launched more than 3 years ago to provide a “fast and secure” method of payment and quickly became very popular in the US. It was shortly followed by Android Pay which is also becoming popular.  However, not everyone uses these systems despite their claimed security, convenience and speed. Jun Ho Huh, Saurabh …

Atty Mashatan – Strategic Implications of Quantum-Resistant Cryptography

  Dr. Mashatan is currently a faculty member at the Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management of Ryerson University where her research focus has been on Information Systems Security and Privacy. Prior to joining Ryerson University, she was a Senior Information Security Consultant and Solutions Architect at CIBC. Prior to that Dr. Mashatan was …

CAFC Financial Crime Trend Bulletin: Text Message

The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has released its latest bulletin on the subject of Text Messaging Scams, sometimes referred to as SMSishing.    Find the English and French versions of the bulletin at the link below. 2017-09-15_Text_Messages_EN 2017-09-15_Text_Messages_FR “Text messaging scams occur when scammers use deceptive text messages to lure consumers into providing personal or financial …

Benjamin Fung – Kam1n0 Assembly Clone Search for Reverse Engineering

Presented at the Spring 2016 SERENE-RISC Workshop. Assembly code analysis is one of the critical processes for mitigating the exponentially increasing threats from malicious software. It is also a common practice for detecting and justifying software plagiarism and software patent infringements when the source code is unavailable. However, it is a manually intensive and time-consuming …

Privacy Loss in Apple’s Implementation of Differential Privacy on MacOS 10.12

Differential privacy (DP) provides a way to quantify privacy. A privacy budget quantitatively measures by how much the risk to an individual’s privacy may increase due to the inclusion of certain data. The higher the value, the less privacy protection is provided. This paper by Jun Tang, Aleksandra Korolova, Xiaolong Bai, Xueqiang Wang, and Xiaofeng Wang identifies the components …