SecurePay won the 2020 best paper award at the annual European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P). Mobile-based 2FA is known to suffer from certain attacks such as BAndroid. The main reason is the fact that the mobile phone is not strongly separated from the browser or an app during authentication. So if the attacker…
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Best paper award at MOBILESoft
“Leave My Apps Alone!” won the best paper award at the MOBILESoft conference. This project studies the extent to which Andorid apps secretly (and sometimes unknowingly) retrieve the list of installed apps. The results show that this is unfortunately prevalent with serious privacy concerns for the users. This paper was featured at Ars Technica and…
TRRespass wins the best paper award at S&P
TRRespass won the best paper award at the Security and Privacy conference last week. TRRespass sheds light on the little-known Target Row Refresh protection that is supposed to protect systems against Rowhammer bit flips. The paper shows for the first time that recent systems employ the mitigation inside DRAM chips. A deep analysis shows that…