CyberspACe securiTy and forensIcs lab (CactiLab)
Rochester Institute of Technology
Director: Prof. Ziming Zhao
About CactiLab
CactiLab is in the Department of Computing Security, the Center for Cybersecurity, and the Global Cybersecurity Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology. Members of CactiLab are interested in security, privacy, and forensics in computer and communications systems. Current research foci include hardware-assisted, system, and software security.
Prof. Ziming Zhao received a PhD degree in Computer Science from the Arizona State University. Research outcomes of CactiLab have appeared in top-tier security conferences and journals, including IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, CCS, NDSS, ACSAC, ESORICS, TISSEC, etc.
News
[Paper] "DANdroid: A Multi-View Discriminative Adversarial Network for Obfuscated Android Malware Detection" has been accepted by CODASPY 2020!
[Paper] "Matched and Mismatched SOCs: A Qualitative Study on Security Operations Center Issues" has been accepted by CCS 2019!
[Paper] "Users Really Do Answer Telephone Scams" received a Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX Security 2019!
[CTF] Team TigerBytes advised by Dr. Zhao has won third place in MITRE Embedded CTF!
[Paper] "Towards a Reliable Firewall for Software-Defined Networks" has been accepted by COSE!
[Paper] "Effectively Enforcing Authorization Constraints for Emerging Space-Sensitive Technologies" has been accepted by SACMAT 2019!
[Service] Ziming is the Program Co-chair of ACM Workshop on Automotive Cybersecurity 2019!
[Paper] "Understanding and Predicting Private Interactions in Underground Forums" has been accepted by CODASPY 2019!
[Paper] "Semantics-Aware Privacy Risk Assessment Using Self-Learning Weight Assignment for Mobile Apps" has been accepted by TDSC!
[Paper] "Wi Not Calling: Practical Privacy and Availability Attacks in Wi-Fi Calling" has been accepted by ACSAC 2018!
[Paper] "Prime+Count: Novel Cross-world Covert Channels on ARM TrustZone" has been accepted by ACSAC 2018!
[Paper] "AIM-SDN: Attacking Information Mismanagement in SDN-datastores will appear" has been accepted by CCS 2018!
Members
Ayushi Rathore
MS Student
Summer 2019 -
Area: Car Security
Brandon Adler
BS/MS Student
Spring 2019 -
Area: Cortex-M TrustZone
Simon Buchheit
BS Student
Spring 2019 -
Zachary Jorgensen
BS Student
Spring 2019 -
Kristen Kate Tumacder
BS Student
Spring 2019 -
Aaron Gdanski
BS Student
Fall 2018 -
Devon Reilly
BS Student
Fall 2018 -
Alumni
Eric Scheler
CE BS Student
Summer 2019 - Fall 2019
Parsons Corporation
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