News / Updates
Sonal Goel successfully defended her Masters Thesis. Thesis Document. Slides.
— April 25, 2016.
Paridhi Jain successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis. Slides.
— April 25, 2016.
Paridhi Jain's Ph.D. Thesis Defense. Automated Methods for Identity Resolution across Online Social Networks. 1730 - 1900hrs IST. April 25, 2016.
Sonal Goel's M.Tech. Thesis Defense. Image Search for Improved Law and Order: Search, Analyze, Predict image spread on Twitter. 1600 - 1730hrs IST. April 25, 2016.
Aritra Dhar (Alumni, 2014) accepts PhD offer from ETH, Zurich under Dr. Srdjan Capkun, System Security group. He also had offers from MPI SWS and Imperial College, London.
Our 2015 - 2016 annual report. Captures our activities over the year.
Ambuj joins internship under Prof. Mohan S Kankanhalli at Sensor-enhanced Social Media Centre, NUS for 6 months!
Dr. Puneet Goyal, Ph.D. from Purdue University joins CERC as Core Faculty!
Please register at http://cerc.iiitd.ac.in/spsymp16/registration.html to attend 4th Security and Privacy Symposium, 12 - 13 Feb, 2016
Our paper "Online Social Media - New face of policing? A Survey Exploring Perceptions, Behavior, Challenges for Police Field Officers and Residents" gets accepted at 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Authors: Niharika, PK.
Our paper "On the Dynamics of Username Changing Behavior on Twitter" gets accepted at 3rd IKDD Conference on Data Science, 2016. Authors: Paridhi, PK.
Our paper "Forensic Analysis of Linear and Non Linear Image Filtering Using Quantization Noise" gets accepted at ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communication and Applications (ACM TOMM), 2015. Authors: Hareesh, AVS, and Prof. Sabu Emmanuel.
Our paper "ACE - An Effective Anti-Forensic Contrast Enhancement Technique" gets accepted at IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2015. Authors: Hareesh, AVS, and Prof. Sabu Emmanuel.
IIIT-Delhi is now part ofInformation Security Education & Awareness Phase II project. The total worth of the project is 96.08 Crore Rupees (approx. 14.7 million USD). IIITD is one among 40 other institutes in the project. Project duration is for 5 years.
CERC activity covered in IIITD's Newsletter. See page 3.
51 school teachers from Delhi / NCR attended our 'Master Trainers'
Program. Staying Safe Online for School Teachers Report on CBSE website.
Niharika presented her paper Online Social Networks and Police in India – Understanding the Perceptions, Behavior, Challenges at eCSCW 2015. Pic.
Paridhi presented her paper Other Times, Other Values: Leveraging Attribute History to Link User Profiles across Online Social Networks at Hypertext 2015. Pic.
Anitra Dhar received the Best M.Tech. Thesis Award in CSE at the 4th Convocation of IIIT Delhi. Advisor: Prof. Rahul Purandare. Thesis Document.
Prof. PK receives Teaching recognition from IIITD. This recognition is for CSE501 Designing Human Centered Systems that he taught Winter 2015 semester based on the feedback given by students from the course.
— Sept 5, 2015.
Prof. Sambuddho Chakravarty receives Teaching recognition from IIITD. This recognition is for CSE3SE / 5SE Security Engineering that he taught Winter 2015 semester based on the feedback given by students from the course.
— Sept 5, 2015.
Shobhita Saxena successfully defended her Masters Thesis. Thesis Document. Slides.
— July 29, 2015.
Rahul Kumar Singh successfully defended his Masters Thesis. Thesis Document. Slides.
— July 28, 2015.
Rahul Kumar Singh successfully defended his Masters Thesis.
— July 28, 2015.
Anupama receives Best Paper Award at the 13th International conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust. Full paper.
— July 23, 2015.
PK gave an invited talk on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media at IBM-IRL. Pictures.
— July 22, 2015.
Niharika's work quoted in The Times of India. "Social media is used to take feedback from people and channelize police resources accordingly, be it for traffic management or crime prevention. A research on how the system made police accountable has already won two Delhi researchers an award in the US." Full research paper
— July 20, 2015.
Aditi's work gets covered in The Telegraph and BBC News.
— July 9, 2015.
Aditi Gupta successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis. Complete thesis document. Slides
— July 6, 2015.
Vaishali Garg successfully defended her Masters Thesis. Thesis Document. Slides.
— June 19, 2015.
Niharika's work on Bengaluru's City Police Facebook page covered on Times of India, Page 2 on June 8, 2015. "Study on City Police's Social Media Use Bags US Varsity Award". Picture.
PK quoted in Live Mint, May 26, 2015, National Edition
(Centrespread). "Cyber bullying: Nip it in the bud".
Our paper "Other Times, Other Values: Leveraging Attribute History to Link User Profiles across Online Social Networks" gets accepted at Hypertext, 2015. Authors: Paridhi, PK, and Prof. Joshi.
Niharika receives Best Paper Award at the 16th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research.
Our paper "What They Do in Shadows: Twitter Underground Follower Market" gets accepted at the 13th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), 2015. Authors: Anupama, PK.
Our paper "Towards Automatic Real Time Identification of Malicious Posts on Facebook" gets accepted at the 13th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), 2015. Authors: Prateek, PK.
Our paper "Clotho:Saving Programs from Malformed Strings and Incorrect String-handling" gets accepted at Foundations of Software Engineering, 2015. Authors: Aritra, Rahul, Mohan, and Suresh.
260 school teachers and counsellors attended the Strategies for Safe
and Effective Use of Online Social Media
workshop. Picture.
— May 2, 2015
Our paper "Online Social Networks and Police in India – Understanding the Perceptions, Behavior, Challenges" gets accepted at the European conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2015). Authors: Niharika, PK.
4th Security & Privacy Symposium. #spsymp16. FB event
— Feb 12 - 13, 2016
CERC Seminar Series. Prof. Mustaque Ahamad, GaTech. Flier
— Apr 10, 2015
Our paper "Social Networks for Police and Residents in India: Exploring Online Communication for Crime Prevention" gets accepted at the 16th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research. Authors: Niharika, PK.
Our 2014 - 2015 annual report. Captures our activities over the year.
Pictures from 3rd Security & Privacy Symposium.
3rd Security & Privacy Symposium. #spsymp15
— Feb 13 - 14, 2014
Srishti Gupta will be presenting her work "Know your targets: Privacy
and Security Implications in Instant Messaging Applications" at NYUAD Annual Research Conference
— Feb 28 - March 1
Prof. PK visited Coimbatore Institute of Technology and PSG College of Technology to deliver the ACM India Eminent Speaker Lectures. Pics.
Volume 1, Issue 4 Nov. edition of Chronicles (IIITD's Newsletter) talks about CERC. See page 1.
Prof. PK gave an invited talk on Building Usable Secure System at International Conference on Secure Knowledge Management in Big-data era. Picture.
— Dec 8 - 9, 2014.
We will be hosting 3rd Security and Privacy Symposium, Feb 14, 2015.
Our Flier. Know more about CERC!
Arita Dhar successfully defended his Masters Thesis.
— Nov 25, 2014.
Dr. K. D. Nayak Director General, Dr. Athithan, Director Scientific Analysis Group, (SAG), and Mr. Susheel Verma, Director Cybersecurity, DRDO visited us. Dr. K. D. Nayak inaugurated our physical space.
— Nov 19, 2014
CERC showcased at India-US Technology Summit and at Knowledge Expo 2014.
— Nov 18 - 21, 2014.
CERC got a 3000+ Sqft space.
Sambuddho's work on TOR gets slashdotted.
— Nov 15, 2014
30+ students (studying some aspects of cybersecurity) from IGDTUW visited us.
— Nov 14, 2014
TweetCred gets "Honorable mentions" for Best Paper Award at SocInfo 2014! Congratulations Aditi! Slides
— Nov 14, 2014
Dr. Acharya's Network Security course in Inictel-Uni, Lema, Peru.
Dr. Acharya, delivering a 5 day course on Network Security, organized at Inictel-Uni, Lema, Peru.
Niharika helps launch the Facebook page of Narcotics Control Bureau, India. Pics from the launch.
— October 20, 2014
IIITD's Newsletter, Chronicles discusses CERC.
Dr. Rahul Purandare will give a lecture on Static Analysis at CAIR, DRDO on November 12, 2014.
Four member team from TCS Research visited CERC.
— October 15, 2014
Open-To-All Lecture on Secure Programming by Prof. Matt Bishop from UCDavis.
5 day course on Secure Programming by Prof. Matt Bishop. Co-organized by CISO Academy and CERC. Flier
Our paper "bit.ly/malicious: Deep Dive into Short URL based e-Crime Detection." received best paper award at eCRS 2014. Congrats Neha, Anupama, and PK.
— September 26, 2014
Prof. Chakravarty and PK visit Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (IGDTUW) and deliver lectures.
— September 25, 2014
PK delivers a lecture on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media at a course organized by Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO)
— September 24, 2014
CERC signs an MoU with CISO Academy
— September 16, 2014
Aditi's work on TweetCred gets accepted at SocInfo 2014. Acceptance rate: 23%
— September 20, 2014
Dr. Rahul Purandare visited Centre for Artificial Intelligence &
Robotics (CAIR) of DRDO in Bengaluru.
— September 17, 2014
Dr. PK gave his ACM India Eminent Speaker talk at the ACM Pune's
Workshop on Cybersecurity Media.
— September 13, 2014
Dr. Chakravarty attended the ASSOCHAM's National Council on Cyber &
Network Security Meeting.
— September 11, 2014
PK's article on Privacy and Security in Online Social
Media published on Defence and Security Alert (DSA) magazine.
— August 10, 2014
Wombat Security Technologies received $ 6.7 Million. PK's Ph.D. thesis work contributed in creating Wombat.
— July 15, 2014
New technical report: "Analyzing Social and Stylometric Features to Identify Spear phishing Emails". Authors: Prateek Dewan, Anand Kashyap, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru.
— June 14, 2014
New technical report: "bit.ly/malicious: Deep Dive into Short URL based e-Crime Detection". Authors: Neha Gupta, Anupama Aggarwal, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru.
— June 14, 2014
New technical report: "Emerging Phishing Trends and Effectiveness of the Anti-Phishing Landing Page". Authors: Srishti Gupta, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru.
— June 14, 2014
Sudip & Abhishek successfully defend their Masters Thesis!
— June 06, 2014
New technical report: "@I to @Me: An anatomy of username changing behavior on Twitter". Authors: Paridhi Jain, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru.
— May 27, 2014
Our paper "Compression Noise Based Video Forgery Detection" accepted at International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). Congrats Hareesh & Prof. AVS!
— May 25, 2014
New technical report: "TweetCred: A Real-time Web-based System for Assessing Credibility of Content on Twitter". Authors: Aditi Gupta, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Carlos Castillo, Patrick Meier.
— May 21, 2014
New technical report: "It Doesn’t Break Just on Twitter. Characterizing Facebook content During Real World Events". Authors: Prateek and PK.
— May 20, 2014
TweetCred, our real-time system to assess credibility of content on Twitter goes live! Please use and participate. Covered in media, Daily Dot, Washington Post, Doha
News, NewYorker.
Neha Gupta successfully defended Masters Thesis
today.
Slides
Video.
— April 23, 2014
30+ participants attend the Web Application Security 101.
— April 20, 2014
Web Application Security 101, Introduction &
Hands-on. Register
now!
— April 15, 2014
Dr. Uri Rosenthal and his delegation from Netherlands visit CERC @ IIITD.
— April 15, 2014
PK presented about "Cybersecurity in India" at "First meeting of the Joint Committee on Science and Technology
Peru-India"
— April 12, 2014
Neha Gupta's M.Tech. Thesis Defense. Exploration of gaps in Bitly's spam detection and relevant countermeasures. 1100 - 1230hrs IST. April
24, 2014.
Ari Klein from CrowdFlower blogs about Aditi's work, "When Should You Trust a Tweet?"
— March 27, 2014
80+ students attend the CERC Info
Session.
— March 27, 2014
As part of the ACM Eminent Speakers program, PK gave a talk on
Privacy and Security in Online Social media at Thapar University. 260+
participants attended the talk.
— March 26, 2014
Inaugural CERC Seminar Series was well attended by 140+ participants.
About 20% of the participants were from industry / other academic
institutes.
— March 25, 2014
Our Seminar Series announced!
— March 17, 2014
Our Advisory Board member Dr. Sundeep Oberoi from TCS visited us today.
— March 12, 2014
New technical report: "Online Social Media and Police in India: Behavior, Perceptions, Challenges". Authors: Niharika and PK.
— March, 2014
#cercatiiitd and #spsymp14 on IIITD's home page / spotlight! SPS'14 witnesses grand success
— March 9, 2014
Anupama Aggarwal, Aditi Gupta, Mayank Gupta, Neha Gupta, Hemank Lamba received Best posters award at #spsymp14
— Feb 19 - 22, 2014
Aditi Gupta received Best Ph.D. student presentation award at #spsymp14
— Feb 19 - 22, 2014
Mr. Sanjay Bahl, Profs. Purandare & PK will Co-organize a workshop and speak at the Security & Privacy Symposium.
— Feb 19 - 22, 2014
CERC inauguration on IIIT-D home page.
— February 15, 2014
An article on CERC in CIO & Leader Magazine. January 2014 edition, pp. 43.
— February 14, 2014
Profs Ashok, Matt, and Witty from Univ of Nebraska Lincoln http://t.co/qwiBqFap8R visiting #cercatiiitd tmrw! Welcome and Look forward.
— February 9, 2014
@niharikasachdev's "A Three-Way Investigation of a Game-CAPTCHA: Automated Attacks, Relay Attacks and Usability" accepted at #ASIACCS 14.
— February 8, 2014
Prof. PK will be talking about Privacy, Identity, and Credibility in OSM. Social Media Workshop at IIIT-BLR #UKIndiasocial #cercatiiitd
— February 5, 2014