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https://brothke.medium.com/is-there-really-an-information-security-jobs-crisis-a492665f6823
An interesting take on the much lamented "cybersecurity skills gap": quick bootcamps may not help address the gap.
Computer scientists at the University of Waterloo have discovered a method of attack that can successfully bypass voice authentication security systems with up to a 99% success rate after only six tries. Voice authentication – which allows companies to verify the identity of their clients via a supposedly unique “voiceprint” – has increasingly been used in remote banking, call
“Recent research: Owura Asare and CS Profs Mei Nagappan and N. Asokan examined the security of GitHub’s Copilot. Despite performing differently across various vulnerability types, Copilot isn't as bad as developers at introducing vulnerabilities in code. https://t.co/z2WEO7Hu9L”
2022 Outstanding Performance Award recipients named The recipients of the 2022 Outstanding Performance Award have been named, according to a memo from Vice-President, Academic & Provost James W.E. Rush. "I am very pleased to announce the award recipients for 2022 and would like to take this opportunity to congratulate them for their outstanding contributions to the University
You can find Seb'ss dissertation here. He has passed his pre-examination with positive reviews. https://sebszyller.com/dissertationsummary
His "committee" consists of pre-examiners Bimal Viswanath and Alina Oprea, and opponent Sébastien Gambs who will be at the defense.
Seb Szyller, my last Aalto doctoral student, defends on Aug 18. We made a poster on our #ML #security work over the last 8 years -- led to 5 doctorates & several master's theses at Aalto. #EndOfAnEra
Blog at https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/ssg/blog/2023/06/ml-security-at-ssg-past-present-and.html
We continue the work at SSG, UWaterloo CrySP
Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships are open again. If you know/are an outstanding new PhD in systems security who wants to explore a postdoc stint with us (Banting or otherwise) drop me a message. More info about our open positions at https://asokan.org/asokan/research/SecureSystems-open-positions-Jul2021.php
Looking forward to giving a talk at #rc3kaust tomorrow, hosted by my friend and former research collaborator at ICRI CARS (https://www.icri-cars.org/) Paulo Verissimo.
https://cemse.kaust.edu.sa/rc3/events/event/extraction-complex-dnn-models-real-threat-or-boogeyman
