Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub

#EXCLUSIVE: A special cyber lab at Macquarie University has been keeping a close eye on the data apps "mine" from our phones, and the results are concerning. @AnnaliseBolt #9News

Thanks to Mark Anderson, National Chief Security Officer, Microsoft talk & visit to @Macquarie_Uni 'Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War'. He spoke of how cyber is the 5th domain of warfare alongside air, sea, land, & space, & the role it plays in modern conflict.

Postdoc position is open! If you have expertise Internet Sec, data analytics, Applied Natural Language processing, ML, Human-Centric security or distributed systems security & be with a talented team @Macquarie_Uni Cyber Security Hub, apply now! lnkd.in/eXwp-9dJ @MQSciEng

"What does the future look like for authentication systems? From key cards to facial scanning to bio-metric finger printing, digital culture continues to be part of our daily lives." @2ser interview will explain where authentication systems are heading. @2ser" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lnkd.in/eQPdEJWG@2ser

“There is a data marketplace out there, it’s a reality. Dark web sadly is a reality of how data & a diff type of scripts & attack execution models & techniques are being shared & sold out there," Prof Kaafar, ED #DataSecurity #OMQCSH sbs.com.au/news/article/h… @MQSciEng @SBSNews

‘Massive and very concerning breach'. Mass data breach – possibly the biggest in Australia to date. Who are these people? How do they operate? What can we do to mitigate risk? Listen to Simon Marnie @abcsydney. Interview at 1:46:00 abc.net.au/sydney/program… #OMQCSH @MQSciEng

Nardine Basta, #OMQCSH Post Doc, joins an amazing line up of speakers at cyberconference.com.au/melbourne. She, along with Andy Walker, CEO @DitnoAu will give a talk on 'Autonomous network resilience: An adaptive Zero-Trust for proactive triage'. Not to be missed. cyberconference.com.au/melbourne/prog…

Yesterday, at Encrypt(Syd) @Meetup, Michal Kepkowski, #OMQCSH PhD student, presented his paper: lnkd.in/dw4HU3K2. lnkd.in/gJu3-nEh is where academics & ind professionals discuss cryptography research & applications.Co-Authors Lucjan Hanzlik, Ian Wood, Dali Kaafar

Announcing 2022 @openid Foundation Kim Cameron Award. Congrats Michal Kepkowski,#OMQCSH PhD student. This Award recognises the importance of mentoring a new generation of domain experts & thought leaders in user centric identity. Read in full: lnkd.in/g4QFJKA7 @MQSciEng

Invitation: Financial Risk Day '22 'Cyber security: financial risks & solutions'. Prof Kaafar, #OMQCSH is joining an expert line up & will be speaking on "Privacy preservation in Data sharing & AI applications". Visit lnkd.in/egru2nHd. Event queries: riskday2022@mq.edu.au.

Free webinar:'Data security & innovation for the energy transition' by Prof Selvadurai. Centric Blue-Sky Seminar series invites internationally renowned scholars to address major challenges & opps in innovation & transformation in the energy transition. lnkd.in/g9fCHx-T

'Mobile health & privacy: cross sectional study' paper lnkd.in/dGqiyh3 continues to make international news! @Mar_RomeroS, journalist at spanish channel @france24, interviews one of the authors, @midkhan. lnkd.in/g9wRAaiq More news stories:lnkd.in/gBJnTJsF

And it's coming to an end. Last coffee break before Keynote by @tanyalokot.Fascinating topics & great discussion, QandA & of course gelato! From the whole team, it has been such a pleasure hosting you in Sydney for @PET_Symposium. See all the Hikers tomorrow! #OMQCSH @MQSciEng

Day 4:@PET_Symposium More superb talks & presentations, student awards, closing remarks & lots of thank yous! Congrats all award winners. Fantastic research. Grateful to all who worked tirelessly here & remotely to bring it all together. PETS'22 great success! @MQSciEng #OMQCSH

We are about to present the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award(s). This is for a paper written primarily by a student. It takes into account both the technical contribution of the paper and the quality of the student's presentation. About Andreas: svs.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/publications/2…

The runners-up for the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award are: ATOM: A Generalizable Technique for Inferring Tracker-Advertiser Data Sharing in the Online Behavioral Advertising Ecosystem by @MaazBinMusa and @rishabn_ #pets22

The runners-up for the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award are: Leveraging Strategic Connection Migration-Powered Traffic Splitting for Privacy by Mona Wang, @anunaykul, Liang Wang and @prateekmittal_ #pets22

The runners-up for the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award are: On Defeating Graph Analysis of Anonymous Transactions by @siccegge, @russell_wf_lai, Viktoria Ronge, Ivy K. Y. Woo and Hoover H. F. Yin #pets22

The winners for the Caspar Bowden PET Award are: Decision Making with Differential Privacy under the Fairness Lens by @CuongTr95450563, @nandofioretto, @PVanHentenryck, and Zhiyan Yao (IJCAI-21) #pets22

The winners of the Artifact Award are: OmniCrawl: Comprehensive Measurement of Web Tracking With Real Desktop and Mobile Browsers by Darion Cassel, Su-Chin Lin, Alessio Buraggina, William Wang, Andrew Zhang, Lujo Bauer, Hsu-Chun Hsiao, Limin Jia, and Timothy Libert