"MC2 Researchers Present Nine Papers at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy"
Researchers affiliated with the Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2) had nine papers accepted to the 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, one of which received a distinguished paper award. The annual conference provides a forum for presenting advances in computer security and electronic privacy, bringing together researchers and practitioners. According to Michelle Mazurek, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland (UMD) and the director of MC2, this year's MC2 papers presented at the symposium cover exciting, timely topics such as dangerous data leaks that occur when phones are resold in police auctions, enabling anonymous credentials that could prove someone is over 18 without revealing their identity, and analyzing the experiences of marginalized people in vulnerability analysis careers. Mazurek adds that the research has significant real-world implications for strengthening security and privacy in various scenarios. For example, one of the MC2-affiliated papers presented at the symposium, titled "IPvSeeYou: Exploiting Leaked Identifiers in IPv6 for Street-Level Geolocation" presents a privacy attack that enables a remote and unprivileged adversary to physically geolocate many residential IPv6 hosts and networks with street-level precision. This article continues to discuss the MC2-affiliated papers presented at this year's IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.