CAHICHA: Computer Automated Hardware Interaction Test to Tell Computer and Humans Apart

As automation bot technology and Artificial Intelligence is evolving rapidly, conventional human verification techniques like voice CAPTCHAs and knowledge-based authentication are becoming less effective. Bots and scrapers with Artificial Intelligence AI capabilities can now detect and solve visu...

KeyDroid: a Large-Scale Analysis of Secure Key Storage in Android Apps

Most contemporary mobile devices offer hardware-backed storage for cryptographic keys, user data, and other sensitive credentials. Such hardware protects credentials from extraction by an adversary who has compromised the main operating system, such as a malicious third-party app. Since 2011,...

Going Back to the Future in the Name of Better Security

NEW YORK–If Bill Cheswick had his way, the future of computing and computer security would look a lot like the distant past, with trusted platforms, small programs, applications that can’t affect the operating system and resistance to user mistakes. Cheswick, a former Bell Labs computer scientist...

Microsoft Proposes 'Health Certificates' For Internet Access

Microsoft is proposing a new Internet-wide security model, based on the concepts of public health, that is designed to address the problem of how to prevent infected machines from affecting the security and performance of PCs elsewhere on the Web. The model would require each PC to present a...