PED vulnerability paper receives “Most Practical Paper” award at Oakland
May 21st, 2008 at 09:56 UTC by Saar Drimer
In February, Steven Murdoch, Ross Anderson and I reported our findings on system-level failures of widely deployed PIN Entry Devices (PED) and the Chip and PIN scheme as a whole. Steven is in Oakland presenting the work described in our paper at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (slides).
We are very pleased that we are the recipients of the new “Most Practical Paper” award of the conference, given to “the paper most likely to immediately improve the security of current environments and systems”. Thanks to everyone who supported this work!
Entry filed under: Academic papers, Awards, Banking security
6 comments Add your own
1. Mike Bond | May 21st, 2008 at 14:26 UTC
Congratulations again guys on this, and a nice conclusion to all your work in the PED area! You really pulled the wool over the IEEE judges eyes, with a “most practical paper” award for attacks that really only work under laboratory conditions
The question unanswered… what to investigate next?
Mike
2. Douglas | May 21st, 2008 at 21:14 UTC
Congratulations!
3. Anon | May 22nd, 2008 at 12:46 UTC
Good job and all, but it seems a bit ludicrous for an academic conference to be giving out a “Most Practical Paper” award. What does it signify? That you’re the most practical of the impractical? I guess that’s something…..
4. billy | June 26th, 2008 at 14:49 UTC
Well deserved
Well Done
5. P | August 13th, 2008 at 16:56 UTC
But who gets the award for greatest deployment?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7557956.stm
6. Ross Anderson | August 18th, 2008 at 13:53 UTC
And see here for the police viewpoint…
Leave a Comment
Some HTML allowed:<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>
Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed