Mark your calendar and come join us for CAE Forum! CAE Forum is a live, real-time, online academic forum where members of the CAE community give non-technical presentations on topics of value to the CAE community.

CAE Forum is about sharing your ideas, knowledge, and expertise to empower and strengthen our community. It's that simple. CAE Forum presentations are normally held on the third Wednesday of each month during the fall and spring semesters.

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Presentation 1: CyberChef Lessons for Learning Encryption

Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Time: 1:00-1:50 p.m. ET

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Audience: Students, professors, government

Presenter(s):  David Hozza, Penn State University

Description:  A walkthrough of a lesson that has helped Cybersecurity students understand Asymmetric Cryptography. Public-Private keys and digital signatures are exchanged in this fun exercise.

Presentation 2: Demystifying and exploiting IoT Timeout Behaviors in Smart Home

Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Time: 2:00-2:50 pm EST

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Audience: Students, professors, government

Presenter(s): Chenglong Fu, Universityof North CarolinaCharlotte

Description: Although the Transport Layer Security (TLS) has been widely adopted to protect communications between IoT devices and servers, we find that the timeout detection in the TCP layer is decoupledfrom data protection in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) layer. This makes it possible to delay IoT messages without triggering alerts. Based on observation, we propose novel the Phantom-Delay attack and Delay-based Automation Interference (DAI) attack for smart home IoT systems that can induce hazardous and persistent consequences stealthily. Our evaluation demonstrates the applicability of our attacks on more than 50 popular IoT devices. The problem has been reported to the corresponding vendors and acknowledged by Google, Ring, and SimpliSafe.

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