Speaker: Scott Xianghang Mi, Ph.D. Candidate at Indian University Bloomington
Title: How Much of Your Device is Actually Yours?
Abstract: Smartphones are critical for our daily life and work. Using them, we store personal data, access online services, and communicate with others. However, for such a personal and sensitive device, can you imagine it may be used by someone else to surf the Internet stealthily? Also, voice assistant devices such as Amazon Echo and Google Home are becoming popular, and 1 in 4 Americans own a smart speaker. Using those devices, you can invoke skills to conduct many tasks such as to send money through paypal and to control your IoT devices. However, what if I tell you there are suspicious parties who sit behind the devices and interact with you by masquerading as benign skills? How can they happen and what should we do to detect and prevent them? In this talk, I will answer those questions in much detail. Along is the ecosystem approach I applied to identify, profile, and prevent those security problems. Also, I will briefly present my future plan to make cyberspace more secure as a whole.
Bio: Xianghang Mi is a Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University Bloomington, advised by Prof. XiaoFeng Wang, and Prof. Feng Qian. His research spans network security, IoT security, and online abuse, aiming to characterize and address fundamental and realistic cybersecurity problems. He has published papers in leading security and network venues (IEEE Security & Privacy, Usenix Security, NDSS, ACM IMC, and ACM CoNEXT), and is the recipient of NDSS’19 Distinguished Paper Award and CSAW’19 Best Paper Award, both of which are well recognized security research awards. His research also features good industry acknowledgments from companies such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
Seminar Host: Degang Chen