Seminar On practical Security - 2017
Welcome to the seventh annual BU RISCS Seminar On practical Security. The seminar meets Mondays during the summer from noon-1pm in PHO 339. This page provides organizational information for the seminar.Introduction
The intent of the seminar is to focus on practical elements of security, including implementation, offensive and defensive approaches, and even physical security: the type of security that is typically represented in less academic hacker conferences such as BLACKHAT, DEFCON, BSIDES, SHMOOCON, or the Chaos Computing Congress. Such practical areas of security are still weekly permeated by the academic community, and yet the academic world can provide a lot of needed guidance and fundamental thinking, in addition to getting some grounding in real-world challenges. All elements of practical security are in scope for this seminar. For example, entropy-reducing attacks on current implementations of random-number generators are appropriate, whereas a novel cryptosystem predicated on the ability of pigs to fly might not be (unless, of course, you provide a demonstration of said pigs).Theoretical topics (e.g. from cryptography or information theory circles) are also in scope if clearly tied to practical matters.
Seminar list
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) denotes an accompanying slideshow provided by the speaker.
| Date | Speaker 1 |
Speaker 2 |
|---|---|---|
| June 5 | Ari Trachtenberg: SoSAgenda, AndroidSideChannels | |
| July 24 | Aselya Alyeva: CopyPasteSecurity | Anand Sanmukhani: HardwareAttacks |
| June 26 | Christian Krieg: ToggleMux | Kyle Hogan: UntrustedComputation |
| August 21 | Frederick Jansen: PayEquity | Nabeel Younis: BitcoinAttacks |
| June 12 | Jason Hennessey: BoltedSecureCloud | Manuel Egele: SecureIoT |
| July 31 | Mayank Varia: DatabaseSearch | Yihao Hu: CollaborativeEncryption |
| July 17 | Nehemiah Dureus: BiometricSecurity | |
| August 7 | Ryan Ewing: SoftwareDefinedRadio | Lianxiao Xin: CascadingDoS |
| July 10 | Sarah Scheffler: FullDiskEncryption | |
| August 14 | Trishita Tiwari: SignalingSystem7 | Lake Bu: PhysicalUnclonableFunctions |
| July 3 | Vijay Thakkar: PasswordGuessability | Yuting Zhang: AndroidLibraries |
| June 19 | Wil Koch: AndroidOversharing | |
Older seminars
You can find older seminars linked here:- 2016 - Seminar list, with some presentation slides, from Summer 2016.
- 2015 - Seminar list, with some presentation slides, from Summer 2015.
- 2014 - Seminar list, with some presentations slides, from Summer 2014.
References
BU students and faculty may access site-licensed videos of some hacker conferences (with their kerberos ID):- Blackhat- security conference mixing hackers/industry/academia - videos at https://algorithmics.bu.edu/blackhat .
- Defcon- videos at https://algorithmics.bu.edu/defcon .