What, exactly, is different or new about mobile security? [slides]

Speaker: Dan S. Wallach is a Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Rice Scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. His research considers a variety of topics in computer security, including electronic voting systems security, where he served as the director of an NSF-funded multi-institution research center, ACCURATE (A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections), from 2005-2011. He has also served as a member of the Air Force Science Advisory Board (2011-2015) and the USENIX Association Board of Directors (2011-2013).

Wallach earned his M.A. (1995) and PhD (1999) from Princeton University, advised by Profs. Edward Felten and Andrew Appel. He earned his B.S. EE/CS from the University of California, at Berkeley (1993).

HybridGuard: A Principal-based Permission and Fine-Grained Policy Enforcement Framework for Web-based Mobile Applications [Paper] [slides]
Phu H. Phung, Abhinav Mohanty, Rahul Rachapalli and Meera Sridhar

Spartan Jester: End-to-end Information Flow Control for Hybrid Android Applications (Short Paper) [Paper] [slides]
Julian Sexton, Andrey Chudnov and David Naumann

Seamless In-App Ad Blocking on Stock Android (Short Paper) [Paper] [slides]
Michael Backes, Sven Bugiel, Philipp von Styp-Rekowsky and Marvin Wißfeld

Mobile subscriber WiFi privacy [Paper] [slides]
Piers O'Hanlon, Ravishankar Borgaonkar and Lucca Hirschi

The Applicability of Ambient Sensors as Proximity Evidence for NFC Transactions? [Paper] [slides]
Carlton Shepherd, Iakovos Gurulian, Konstantinos Markantonakis, Eibe Frank, Raja Naeem Akram, Emmanouil Panaousis and Keith Mayes

MR-Droid: A Scalable and Prioritized Analysis of Inter-App Communication Risks [Paper] [slides]
Fang Liu, Haipeng Cai, Gang Wang, Danfeng Yao, Karim O. Elish and Barbara G. Ryder

Internet of Things Security: What, Why, and How [slides]

Speaker: Earlence Fernandes is a security researcher who is currently interested in the Internet of Things. He approaches IoT security from multiple perspectives including attacks, measurements, and system building. His recent work, a security analysis of the popular SmartThings platform, received the Distinguished Practical Paper Award at IEEE Security and Privacy in 2016 along with widespread press coverage. Earlence holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.