Publications

• Refereed Journal and Magazine Articles
• Refereed Book Chapters
• Refereed Conference Papers
• Refereed Demos and Posters
• Media Coverage

Note: The material on this website is provided only for educational purposes.

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Refereed Journal and Magazine Articles:

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Refereed Book Chapters:

• Saputro, N., Tonyali, S., Aydeger, A., Akkaya, K., Rahman, M.A. and Uluagac, S. (2020). A Review of Moving Target Defense Mechanisms for Internet of Things Applications. In Modeling and Design of Secure Internet of Things (eds C.A. Kamhoua, L.L. Njilla, A. Kott and S. Shetty). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119593386.ch24 [pdf], [bibtex].
• Denney K., Uluagac A.S., Aksu H., Akkaya K. (2018) An Android-Based Covert Channel Framework on Wearables Using Status Bar Notifications. In: Conti M., Somani G., Poovendran R. (eds) Versatile Cybersecurity. Advances in Information Security, vol 72. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97643-3_1 [pdf], [bibtex].
• A. Selcuk Uluagac, Kemal Akkaya, Apurva Mohan, Hazar Cintuglu, Tarek Youssef, Osama Mohammed, Daniel Sullivan “Wireless Infrastructure in Industrial Control Systems,” Book Chapter in Cyber Security Methods for Industrial Control and SCADA Systems, Edited by Ed Colbert and Alex Kott, Springer, vol: 66, Pages 29-49, September 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-32125-7, [pdf], [bibtex].
• Nico Saputro, Ali Yurekli, Kemal Akkaya, and A. Selcuk Uluagac, “Privacy-preservation for IoT in Smart Buildings,” Book Chapter in Security and Privacy in Internet of Things (IoT): Models, Algorithms, and Implementations, edited by Fie Hu, Pages 135–166, April 1, 2016, CRC Press, ISBN 9781498723183, [pdf], [bibtex].
• Kemal Akkaya, A. Selcuk Uluagac, Abdullah Aydeger, and Apurva Mohan, “Secure Software Defined Networking Architectures for The Smart Grid,” Book Chapter in Smart Grid: Networking, Data Management, and Business Models, edited by Hussein Mouftah and Melike Erol Kantarci, Pages 53–70, April 1, 2016, CRC Press, ISBN 9781498719704, [pdf], [bibtex].

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Refereed Conference Papers:

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Refereed Demos and Posters:

• Peer-reviewed Poster: Harun Oz, Faraz Naseem, Ahmet Aris, Abbas Acar, Guliz Seray Tuncay, A Selcuk Uluagac. “Feasibility of Malware Visualization Techniques against Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks”. 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2022.
• Peer-reviewed Poster: L. Babun and A. S. Uluagac, “Security and Privacy Mechanisms for IoT and IIoT Devices and Applications”, in the RSA Conference, San Francisco February 2020.
• Peer-reviewed Poster: L. Babun, B. Celik, P. McDaniel, and A. S. Uluagac, “Real-time Privacy Analysis of IoT Apps”, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2019, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• Peer-reviewed Poster: A.K.Sikder, L. Babun, B. Celik, A. Acar, H. Aksu, P. McDaniel, E. Kirda, and A. S. Uluagac, “A Novel Fine-grained Access Control System for Multi-user Multi-device Smart Home Systems”, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2019, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• L. Babun and A. S. Uluagac, “Blockchain-assisted Privacy Analysis of IoT Apps”, in the GDRR Foundations for Blockchain Data Analytics Workshop, October 2019, the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), October 2019, Durham, NC.
• A. K. Sikder and A. S. Uluagac, “CAREER: Securing Sensory Side-Channels in Cyber-Physical Systems”, in the 2019 Annual NSF CPS PI Meeting, Crystal City, VA, USA.
• Peer-reviewed Poster: Kyle Denney, Enes Erdin, Leonardo Babun, and Selcuk Uluagac, “POSTER: Dynamically Detecting USB Attacks in Hardware,” Poster at the 12th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec), Miami, May 16, 2019
• Peer-reviewed Poster: Luis Puche Rondon, Leonardo Babun, Kemal Akkaya, and Selcuk Uluagac, “POSTER: Attacking HDMI Distribution Networks,” Poster at the 12th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec), Miami, May 16, 2019
• Peer-reviewed Poster: Leonardo Babun, Amit Kumar Sikder, Abbas Acar, and Selcuk Uluagac, “POSTER: A Digital Forensics Framework for Smart Settings,” Poster at the 12th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACMWiSec), Miami, May 16, 2019
• Peer-reviewed Poster: Luis Puche Rondon, Leonardo Babun, Kemal Akkaya, and Selcuk Uluagac, “HDMI-Walk: Attacking HDMI Distribution Networks via Consumer Electronic Control Protocol,” Poster at the Annual Research Conference at the University of Florida’s Florida Institute of Cybersecurity Research, Gainesville, FL, March 9, 2019
• Peer-reviewed Poster: Kyle Denney, Enes Erdin, Leonardo Babun, and Selcuk Uluagac, “Hardware-Assisted Insider Threat Detection Framework,” Poster at the Annual Research Conference at the University of Florida’s Florida Institute of Cybersecurity Research, Gainesville, FL, March 9, 2019.
• A. K. Sikder and A. S. Uluagac, “A Context-aware Framework for Detecting Sensor-based Threats on Smart Devices”, Transforming Antenna Center Workshop, Florida International University, September 12, 2018. (Best Poster Award)
• Mumin Cebe, Enes Erdin, Kemal Akkaya, Hidayet Aksu and A.Selcuk Uluagac,”Building a Private Bitcoin-based Payment Network among Electric Vehicles and Charging Stations,” Poster at the Annual Research Conference at the University of Florida’s Florida Institute of Cybersecurity Research, Gainesville, FL, March 1, 2018 (Best Poster Award)
• Leonardo Babun, Z. Berkay Celik, Amit K. Sikder, Hidayet Aksu, Gang Tan, Patrick McDaniel, and A. Selcuk Uluagac, “SaINT: Sensitive Information Tracking for IoT Apps,” Demo at the Annual Research Conference at the University of Florida’s Florida Institute of Cybersecurity Research, Gainesville, FL, March 1, 2018 (Best Demo Award)
• Abbas Acar, Hidayet Aksu, Kemal Akkaya, and A. Selcuk Uluagac, “Wearable-assisted Continuous Authentication,” Poster at the Annual Research Conference at the University of Florida’s Florida Institute of Cybersecurity Research, Gainesville, FL, March 1, 2018
• Leonardo Babun, Hidayet Aksu, and A. Selcuk Uluagac, “A Framework for Counterfeit Smart Grid Device Detection,” Demo at the Annual Research Conference at the University of Florida’s Florida Institute of Cybersecurity Research, Gainesville, FL, March 8, 2017 (Best Demo Award)
• Leonardo Babun, Hidayet Aksu, and A. Selcuk Uluagac, “A Framework for Counterfeit Smart Grid Device Detection,” Poster and Demo at the Annual Department of Energy’s SEEDS Center Research Meeting, Miami, FL, 19 January 2017 (Best Poster and Demo Award)
• Abbas Acar, Hidayet Aksu, Kemal Akkaya, and A.Selcuk Uluagac, ”WACA: Wearable-Assisted Continuous Authentication Framework with Motion Sensors,“ Poster at The 25th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2016
• Abdullah Aydeger, Kemal Akkaya, A. Selcuk Uluagac, “SDN-based Resilience for Smart Grid Communications,” Demo at the IEEE International Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks, San Francisco, CA, November 2015[pdf]
• Kyle Denney, A. Selcuk Uluagac, Kemal Akkaya, and Nico Saputro, “A Novel Storage Covert Channel on Wearable Devices Using Status Bar Notifications”, Demo at the IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Clearwater Beach, FL, October 2015
• A. Selcuk Uluagac, Wenyi Liu, and Raheem Beyah, “A Multi-factor Re-authentication Framework with User Privacy,” Poster at the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), San Fransisco, CA, October 2014
• Aaron Goldman, A. Selcuk Uluagac, and J. A. Copeland, ”Cryptographically-Curated File System (CCFS): Secure, Inter-operable, and Easily Implementable Information-Centric Networking,” Demo at the IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), September 2014, Edmonton, Canada
• Xiaojing Liao, A.Selcuk Uluagac, and R. A. Beyah,“S-Match: An Efficient Privacy-preserving Profile Matching Scheme” Poster at the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), October 2013.
• Sakthi V Radhakrishnan, A.Selcuk Uluagac, and R. A. Beyah,”A DCF-Based Covert Timing Channel for IEEE 802.11 With Off-The-Shelf Wireless Cards,“ Poster at The 21st USENIX Security Symposium, August 2012
• Marco Valero, Sang Shin Jung, A. Selcuk Uluagac, Yingshu Li, Raheem Beyah, “The Monitoring Core (M-Core): Toward Fully Securing Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks“, Poster at The 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2011
• Marco Valero, Sang Shin Jung, A. Selcuk Uluagac, Yingshu Li, Raheem Beyah, “Di-Sec: A Distributed Security Framework for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks“, Demo at ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), September 2011

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Other Unrefereed Articles, Demos, and Posters

• “The Design of NetSecLab: A Small Competition-Based Network Security Lab”, Poster at at The 2010 Georgia Tech Security Summit: Emerging Cyber Security Threats, Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), October 2010
• “TIme-Based DynamiC Keying and En-Route Filtering (TICK) for Sensor-Based Ceyber-Physical Systems“, Poster at at The 2010 Georgia Tech Security Summit: Emerging Cyber Security Threats, Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC), October 2010

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Media Coverage:

• TV Interview (Spanish), “Noticias Telemundo: “¡Puedo verte en la cama! ¡Vamos! ¡Despierta!”. Denuncian preocupantes casos de piratería con cámaras de seguridad”, Rogelio Mora-Tagle, 2019, Miami, FL, link.
• TV Interview (Spanish), “Noticias Telemundo: Thousands of people are heard through Alexa”, NBC Universal, Rogelio Mora-Tagle, April 12, 2019, Miami, FL, link.
• TV Interview (Spanish), “Primer Impacto: Did you know that a ‘hacker’ can steal your information by approaching your smart watch?”, Univison, Rogelio Santiago Franco, March 29, 2019, Miami, FL, link.
• TV Interview (Spanish), “Noticias Telemundo: Internet turns 30”, Telemundo, Rogelio Mora-Tagle, March 12, 2019, Miami, FL, link.
• News Article, “Security flaws found in popular smart home devices,” PBS Newshour Science, Jamie Leventhal, November 6, 2019, link
• News Article, “FIU students searching for cybersecurity solutions”, NBC Miami, November 26, 2018, link
• News Article, “FIU inspires future learners,” Miami’s Community Newspapers, February 28, 2018, link
• News Article, “How to stop phone apps from spying on you, Stephen Ornes, January 26, 2018, link
• News Article, “Your phone is like a spy in your pocket,” Science News, Maria Temming, January 23, 2018, link
• TV Interview, “Connect U: FIU offers students specialized training in smart devices,” WSVN Channel 7, Lorena Estrada, December 29, 2017, Miami, FL, link
• News Article, “Experts talk cyber attacks on business, lead live hack,” FIU News, Gisela Valencia, December 21, 2017, link
• TV Interview, “FIU Looks to Future With ’Internet of Things’ Degree,” NBC 6 Miami, Jamie Guirola, Nov 2, 2017, link
• News Article, “CyberCorps pays for students’ education, gives them job opportunities,” FIU News, Diana Hernandez-Alende , October 10, 2017, link
• TV Interview, “Guard your gadgets,” WSVN Channel 7, Leisa Williams, November 11, 2016, Miami, FL, link
• TV Interview, “Dangers of Unsecured Surveillance Cameras,” NBC Miami Channel 6, Laura Rodriguez, August 18, 2016, link
• News Article, “Universities, Utility Research Protecting Nation’s Power Grid From Cyber Attacks,” Homeland Security Today, Anthony Kimery, Editor-in-Chief, October 13, 2015
• News Article, “FIU Works To Protect Against Power Grid Cyber Attacks,” CBS Miami, Giovanna Maselli, October 12, 2015