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UCI researchers’ deep learning algorithm solves Rubik’s Cube faster than any human

July 15, 2019

Work is step toward advanced AI systems that can think, reason, plan and make decisions

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ICS Researchers Introduce Thermanator, Revealing a New Threat to Using Keyboards to Enter Passwords and Other Sensitive Information

June 29, 2018

A thermal image of “iloveyou” 20 seconds after entry.

After entering a password, your regular computer keyboard might appear to look the same as always, but a new approach harvesting thermal energy can illuminate the recently pressed keys, revealing that keyboard-based password entry is even less secure than previously thought. Computer Science Ph.D. students Tyler Kaczmarek and Ercan Ozturk in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS), working with Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science Gene Tsudik, have exploited thermal residue from human fingertips to introduce a new insider attack — the Thermanator.

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Gene Tsudik, ICS Exchange Students on International Team Studying Information Leakage

June 25, 2018

In a paper to appear at the 2018 European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), a team of researchers from UC Irvine, New York Institute of Technology and University of Padova (Italy) reveal a new attack: Secret Information Leakage from Keystroke Timing Videos (SILK-TV). The UCI researchers include Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science Gene Tsudik and undergrad exchange students Martin Georgiev and Nikita Samarian.

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Gene Tsudik, Two Computer Science Ph.D. Students Develop Novel De-Authentication Prototype

June 25, 2018

Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science Gene Tsudik and two of his Ph.D. students, Tyler Kaczmarek and Ercan Ozturk, have developed a novel technique aimed at mitigating “Lunchtime Attacks.” Such attacks occur when an insider adversary takes over an authenticated state of a careless user who has left his or her computer unattended. Tsudik, Kaczmarek and Ozturk have come up with an unobtrusive and continuous biometric-based “de-authentication,” i.e., a means of quickly terminating the secure session of a previously authenticated user after detecting that user’s absence. They introduce the new biometric, called Assentication, in a paper appearing at the 2018 International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS).

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Professor Xu Awarded 2018 AITO Junior Dahl-Nygaard Prize

January 9, 2018

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Eppstein Named AAAS Fellow

November 27, 2017

Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science David Eppstein is one of 10 UCI researchers to be named an AAAS Fellow this year.

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Franz Looks to Simplify Software for Increased Security

November 17, 2017

A $3.15 million award from the Office of Naval Research will fund a three-year “Attack Surface Reduction for Binary Programs” grant.

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