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2022-09-26
12:52
Toward understanding and improving the user experience with smartphone physical security / Masoud Mehrabi Koushki [LERSSE-THESIS-2022-003]
The incumbent physical security system on smartphones is known to dissatisfy users. [...]
Published in Masoud Mehrabi Koushki, "Toward understanding and improving the user experience with smartphone physical security", PhD Dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, September, 2022:
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2022-03-27
23:29
Security and privacy challenges of using technology in personal, professional, and involuntary relationships / Borke Obada-Obieh [LERSSE-THESIS-2022-001]
This dissertation reports on the security and privacy challenges of using technology in personal, professional, and involuntary relationships. [...]
Published in Obada-Obieh, B. (2022). Security and privacy challenges of using technology in personal, professional, and involuntary relationships (T). University of British Columbia. Retrieved from https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0406667:
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2021-11-03
10:59
Towards understanding and improving the crypto-asset user experience / Artemij Voskobojnikov [LERSSE-THESIS-2021-001]
The crypto-asset domain has grown substantially over the past years, both in terms of overall market capitalization, available crypto-assets, and the number of users. [...]
Published in Artemij Voskobojnikov, "Towards understanding and improving the crypto-asset user experience", PhD Dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, August, 2021::
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2019-07-08
22:23
Privacy on Social Networking Sites Among Canadian Teenagers / Salma Haghighat-Kashani [LERSSE-THESIS-2019-001]
The widespread popularity of social networking sites (SNSs) among teenagers continually raises concerns over their safety among parents, educators, and policy makers. [...]
Published in Salma Haghighat-Kashani, "Privacy on Social Networking Sites Among Canadian Teenagers", MASc Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, May, 2019:
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2018-08-23
09:52
Analysis of Data-At-Rest Security In Smartphones / Ildar Muslukhov [LERSSE-THESIS-2018-003]
With almost two billion users worldwide, smartphones are used for almost everything – booking a hotel, ordering a cup of coffee, or paying in a shop. [...]
Published in Ildar Muslukhov, "Analysis of Data-At-Rest Security In Smartphones", PhD Dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, August, 2018:
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2018-07-21
02:32
Contextual Permission Models for Better Privacy Protection / Primal Wijesekera [LERSSE-THESIS-2018-002]
Despite corporate cyber intrusions attracting all the attention, privacy breaches that we, as ordinary users, should be worried about occur every day without any scrutiny. [...]
Published in Primal Wijesekera, "Contextual Permission Models for Better Privacy Protection", PhD Dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, June, 2018:
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2018-06-04
18:53
Advancing the Understanding of Android Unlocking and Usage / Lina Qiu [LERSSE-THESIS-2018-001]
Research efforts have been made towards creating mobile authentication systems to better serve users’ concerns regarding usability and security. [...]
Published in Lina Qiu, "Advancing the Understanding of Android Unlocking and Usage", MASc Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, May, 2018:
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2015-08-03
06:54
Towards understanding how Touch ID impacts users’ authentication secrets selection for iPhone lock. / Ivan Cherapau [LERSSE-THESIS-2015-004]
Smartphones today store large amounts of data that can be confidential, private or sensitive. [...]
Published in LERSSE-THESIS-2015-003:
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2015-05-13
07:22
Security Analysis of Malicious Socialbots on the Web / Yazan Boshmaf [LERSSE-THESIS-2015-002]
The open nature of the Web, online social networks (OSNs) in particular, makes it possible to design socialbots—automation software that controls fake accounts in a target OSN, and has the ability to perform basic activities similar to those of real users. [...]
Published in Yazan Boshmaf, Security Analysis of Malicious Socialbots on the Web, PhD Dissertation, UBC, 2015:
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2015-01-19
00:48
Engineering Access Control For Distributed Enterprise Systems / Konstantin Beznosov [LERSSE-THESIS-2015-001]
Access control (AC) is a necessary defense against a large variety of security attacks on the resources of distributed enterprise applications. [...]
Published in Florida International University, 2000:
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