security research

Privacy in the modern era

IPvSeeYou: Exploiting Leaked Identifiers in IPv6 for Street-Level Geolocation

Erik Rye and Robert Beverly

[Slides] [Paper] [Code]

Device Tracking via Linux’s New TCP Source Port Selection Algorithm

Moshe Kol, Amit Klein, and Yossi Gilad

[Code] [Paper]

zk-creds: Flexible Anonymous Credentials from zkSNARKs and Existing Identity Infrastructure

Michael Rosenberg, Jacob White, Christina Garman, and Ian Miers

[Paper] [Code]

3 Years in China: A Tale of Building a REAL Full Speed Anti-Censorship Router

KaiJern Lau

[Slides] [Code] [Video]

Embedded [in]security

Embedded Threats: A Deep Dive into the Attack Surface and Security Implications of eSIM Technology

Markus Vevier

[Code] [Video]

RPMB, a secret place inside the eMMC

Sergio Prado

[Blog]

Compromising Garmin’s Sport Watches: A Deep Dive into GarminOS and its MonkeyC Virtual Machine

Tao Sauvage

[Blog] [Video] [Slides]

The Impostor Among US(B): Off-Path Injection Attacks on USB Communications

Robert Dumitru, Daniel Genkin, Andrew Wabnitz, and Yuval Yarom

[Code] [Paper]

MagBackdoor: Beware of Your Loudspeaker as A Backdoor For Magnetic Injection Attacks

Tiantian Liu, Feng Lin, Zhangsen Wang, Chao Wang, Zhongjie Ba, Li Lu, Wenyao Xu, and Kui Ren

[Code] [Paper]

Issues at the operating system level

(Windows) Hello from the Other Side

Dirk-jan Mollema

[Slides] [Code]

Every Signature is Broken: On the Insecurity of Microsoft Office’s OOXML Signatures

Simon Rohlmann, Vladislav Mladenov, Christian Mainka, Daniel Hirschberger, and Jörg Schwenk

[Paper] [Code]

Dirty Bin Cache: A New Code Injection Poisoning Binary Translation Cache

Koh Nakagawa

[Slides] [Code]

The Most Dangerous Codec in the World: Finding and Exploiting Vulnerabilities in H.264 Decoders

Willy R. Vasquez, Stephen Checkoway, and Hovav Shacham

[Slides] [Paper] [Code]

Nifty sundries

EverParse: Secure Binary Data Parsers for Everyone

Tahina Ramananandro

[Slides] [Code]

InfinityGauntlet: Expose Smartphone Fingerprint Authentication to Brute-force Attack

Yu Chen, Yang Yu, and Lidong Zhai

[Paper]

It’s (DOM) Clobbering Time: Attack Techniques, Prevalence, and Defenses

Soheil Khodayari and Giancarlo Pellegrino

[Code] [Paper] [Site]

Can you trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations?

Bar Lanyado, Ortal Keizman, and Yair Divinsky

[Blog]

Phoenix Domain Attack: Vulnerable Links in Domain Name Delegation and Revocation

Xiang Li, Baojun Liu, Xuesong Bai, Mingming Zhang, Qifan Zhang, Zhou Li, Haixin Duan, and Qi Li

[Slides] [Paper]

Man-in-the-Middle Attacks without Rogue AP: When WPAs Meet ICMP Redirects

Xuewei Feng, Qi Li, Kun Sun, Yuxiang Yang, and Ke Xu

[Website] [Paper]

Executive Producers for this episode are:

Dr. Debra Langan  - Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University
Dr. Carrie Sanders -  Director, Centre for Research on Security Practices (CRSP) and Professor, Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University

Guests for this episode include: 

Dr. Marisa Silvestri is a reader in Criminology at the University of Kent. Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender, crime, justice, policing and organizational cultures. She is currently working on two books: Police Leadership: Changing Landscapes and Police Leadership: Critical Perspectives.

Dr. Tim Prenzler is a professor of Criminology in the School of Law and Society at the University of The Sunshine Coast in Australia. His research interests include crime and corruption prevention, police and security officer safety, security industry regulation and gender equity in policing. 

Dr. Jenny Fleming is a professor of Criminology at the University of Southampton and is the Co-Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Research at the University of Southampton. She is the Editor-In-Chief of Policing and Society, an international journal of research and policy.  Jenny has worked on an informal and formal basis with police agencies and police associations in Australia, the United Kingdom, Scotland, Canada, The Netherlands, the United States and New Zealand. 

Dr. Jennifer Brown is a visiting professor in the Manheim Centre at the London School of Economics. She is also a chartered forensic and chartered occupational psychologist. Her research interest is in police occupational culture especially with reference to stress experienced by officers and diversity -- particularly women's roles and coping strategies. 

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This episode was produced by Avery Moore Kloss from Folktale Studio. 

This episode is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

More information on the Centre for Research on Security Practices at crsp.online. 

This episode was produced by Avery Moore Kloss from Folktale Studio. 

It was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. 

More information on the Centre for Research on Security Practices at crsp.online. 

Please find a full transcript of this episode HERE. 

About our guests in this episode:

Bree Akesson, is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Adversity and Wellbeing at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. She is the Associate Director of the Center for Research on Security Practices. Her research focuses on families who face extreme adversity, such as poverty, war and climate change. 

Allen Ratliff is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Science and Social Work at Miami University in Ohio. He studies violence against marginalized young people, specifically violence against transgender and non-binary young people and young people experiencing homelessness. 

Genevieve Graaf is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington. She studies children's health and behavioural health policy and services. 

Cindy Sousa is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College, outside of Philadelphia. She is the co-director of the Center for Child and Family Well-Being. Her work focuses on the health implications of violence, particularly related to families; the protective effects of culture, place, and social support; and professional responsibility in the face of collective suffering.

Susan Kemp is a Charles O. Cressey Endowed Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington School of Social Work, Seattle and Professor of Social Work at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. 

Contributors to this episode's production:

Avery Moore Kloss - Reporter, Host and Producer

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Bree Akesson  - Executive Producer and Panel Guest

Support and Funding for this episode:

This episode is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Wilfrid Laurier University.

Important links and studies you might be interested in:

Akesson, B., Burns, V., & Hordyk, S.-R. (2017). The Place of Place in Social Work: Rethinking the Person-in-Environment Model in Social Work Education and Practice. Journal of Social Work Education, 53(3), 372–383. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2016.1272512

Kemp, S. P. (2010). Place matters: Toward a rejuvenated theory of environment for direct social work practice. In W. Borden (Ed.), Reshaping Theory in Contemporary Social Work: Toward a Critical Pluralism in Clinical Practice. Columbia University Press.

Ratliff, G. A. (2019). Social work, place, and power: Applying heterotopian principles to the social topology of social work. Social Service Review, 93(4), 640–677. https://doi.org/10.1086/706808

Sousa, C. A., Kemp, S. P., & El-Zuhairi, M. (2019). Place as a Social Determinant of Health: Narratives of Trauma and Homeland among Palestinian Women. The British Journal of Social Work, 49(4), 963–982.  https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz049

To send feedback or to participate in a podcast, please contact Samantha Henderson (sahenderson@wlu.ca). 

You can find more information about CRSP on our website, CRSP.online

This episode was produced by Avery Moore Kloss from Folktale Studio. 

It was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. 

More information on the Centre for Research on Security Practices at crsp.online.