We are secured.

As of today, this website is secured with HTTPS! It took a long time to sslify the website for several reasons (primarily due to the lack of budget, and… we were lazy).
We would thank Let’s Encrypt for making it happen!

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Waseda Password Cracking Contest

We hold the 1st password cracking contest at Waseda university.
Here is the final score of the contest. We hope the participants enjoyed the contest and deepen their understandings of password-related technologies.

Best paper award (ATIS 2017)

Our work presented at the eighth International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information Security (ATIS 2017) received the Best Paper Award. Congratulations Bo!

Bo Sun, Xiapu Luo, Mitsuaki Akiyama, Takuya Watanabe and Tatsuya Mori, “Characterizing Promotional Attacks in Mobile App Store,” Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information Security (ATIS 2017), pp. 113-127, July 2017
 

A paper got accepted.

Our paper submitted to the 2nd International Workshop on App Market Analytics (WAMA 2017) got accepted. This is a joint work with NTT Secure Platform Labs. Congrats, Ishii-kun!

Y. Ishii, T. Watanabe, F. Kanei, Y. Takata, E. Shioji, M. Akiyama, T. Yagi, B. Sun and T. Mori,
Understanding the Security Management of Global Third-Party Android Marketplaces,”
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on App Market Analytics (WAMA 2017), July 2017 (to appear)