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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Towards understanding how users decide about friendship requests in Online Social Networks
/ Hootan Rashtian
[LERSSE-THESIS-2014-002]
Accepting friend requests from strangers in Facebook-like online social networks is known to be a risky behavior. [...]
Published in Hootan Rashtian, "Towards understanding how users decide about friendship requests in Online Social Networks," MASc Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, June, 2014, pp.108:
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User-centered design of identity and access management systems
/ Pooya Jaferian
[LERSSE-THESIS-2014-001]
IT security management (ITSM) technologies are important components of IT security in organizations. [...]
Published in Pooya Jaferian, "User-centered design of identity and access management systems," PhD dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, December, 2014, pp.314:
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Towards Improving the Usability and Security of Web Single Sign-On Systems
/ San-Tsai Sun
[LERSSE-THESIS-2013-001]
OpenID and OAuth are open and lightweight web single sign-on (SSO) protocols that have been adopted by high-profile identity providers (IdPs), such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, and millions of relying party (RP) websites. [...]
Published in San-Tsai Sun, "Towards Improving the Usability and Security of Web Single Sign-On Systems," PhD dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, November, 2013, pp.216:
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Influencing User Password Choice Through Peer Pressure
/ Andreas Sotirakopoulos
[LERSSE-THESIS-2011-004]
Passwords are the main means of authenticating users in most systems today. [...]
Published in UBC Thesis:
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Towards Supporting Users in Assessing the Risk in Privilege Elevation
/ Sara Motiee
[LERSSE-THESIS-2011-003]
To better protect users from security incidents, the principle of least privilege (PLP) requires that users and programs be granted the most restrictive set of privileges possible to perform the required tasks. [...]
Published in Sara Motiee, "Towards Supporting Users in Assessing the Risk in Privilege Elevation", MASc thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, October 2011.:
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Optimizing Re-Evaluation of Malware Distribution Networks
/ Kyle Zeeuwen
[LERSSE-THESIS-2011-002]
The retrieval and analysis of malicious content is an essential task for security researchers. [...]
Published in Kyle Zeeuwen, "Optimizing Re-Evaluation of Malware Distribution Networks", MASc thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, October 2011.:
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Towards Improving the Usability of Personal Firewalls
/ Fahimeh Raja
[LERSSE-THESIS-2011-001]
Even though personal firewalls are an important aspect of security for the users of personal computers, little attention has been given to their usability. [...]
Published in Fahimeh Raja, "Towards Improving the Usability of Personal Firewalls," MASc thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, January 2011.:
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Towards Improving the Performance of Enterprise Authorization Systems using Speculative Authorization
/ Pranab Kini
[LERSSE-THESIS-2010-001]
With the emergence of tighter corporate policies and government regulations, access control has become an integral part of business requirements in enterprises. [...]
Published in Pranab Kini, "Towards Improving the Performance of Enterprise Authorization Systems using Speculative Authorization" Masters thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, October, 2010 :
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Towards Improving the Availability and Performance of Enterprise Authorization Systems
/ Qiang Wei
[LERSSE-THESIS-2009-006]
Authorization protects application resources by allowing only authorized entities to access them. [...]
Published in Qiang Wei, "Towards Improving the Availability and Performance of Enterprise Authorization Systems," PhD dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, October, 2009, pp.141.:
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Analysis of ANSI RBAC Support in Commercial Middleware
/ Wesam M. Darwish
[LERSSE-THESIS-2009-001]
This thesis analyzes the access control architectures of three middleware technologies: Common
Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), and Component
Object Model (COM+) [...]
Published in Wesam M. Darwish, "Analysis of ANSI RBAC Support in Commercial Middleware," Master thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, April, 2009, pp.124. :
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Creation and Evaluation of SQL Injection Security Tools
/ Fabrizio Monticelli
[LERSSE-THESIS-2008-005]
This work summarizes our research on the topic of the creation and evaluation of security tools against SQL injection attacks (SQLIAs) [...]
Published in Fabrizio Monticelli, "Creation and Evaluation of SQL Injection Security Tools," Master thesis, Milano (MI), Italia, Department of Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Milano Technical University, Oct, 2008, pp.184. :
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Challenges, Collaborative Interactions, and Diagnosis Performed by IT Security Practitioners: An Empirical Study
/ Rodrigo Werlinger
[LERSSE-THESIS-2008-004]
This thesis investigates four different aspects of information security management: challenges faced by security practitioners, interactive collaborations among security practitioners and other stakeholders, diagnostic work performed by security practitioners during the response to incidents, and factors that impact the adoption of an intrusion detection system in one organization. [...]
Published in Rodrigo Werlinger, "Challenges, Collaborative Interactions, and Diagnosis Performed by IT Security Practitioners: An Empirical Study," MASc thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, July 2008. :
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Multiple-Channel Security Model And Its Implementation Over SSL
/ Yong Song
[LERSSE-THESIS-2005-003]
Multiple-Channel SSL (MC-SSL) is a new model and protocol to secure client-server communication. [...]
Published in Yong Song, "Multiple-Channel Security Model And Its Implementation Over SSL," M.A.Sc. thesis in department of ECE, Vancouver, Canada, University of British Columbia, Fall, 2004, pp.100. :
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A Method for Assessing the Trustworthiness of an Entity by Cooperating Authorities
/ Mathias Kohler
[TEST-THESIS-2005-001]
In this thesis a Model of Trust based on Bayesian Networks is introduced. [...]
Published in Mathias Kohler, "A Method for Assessing the Trustworthiness of an Entity by Cooperating Authorities," Master thesis in Communication and Media Engineering, Offenburg, Germany, University of Applied Sciences, Sep, 2005, pp.66. :
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