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Dr. Steven Murdoch
Born
Steven James Murdoch
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forTor project[5]
EMV/Chip and PIN[6]
Scientific career
FieldsSecurity
Privacy
Anonymous communication[1][2]
Chip and PIN
Europay, Master and Visa (EMV)[3]
InstitutionsComputer Science Department, University College London
ThesisCovert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems (2008)
Doctoral advisorMarkus Kuhn[4]
Websitewww.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/s.murdoch/

Steven James Murdoch is a security researcher in the Computer Science Department, University College London. His research covers privacy-enhancing technology, Internet censorship, and anonymous communication, in particular Tor. He is also known for discovering several vulnerabilities in the EMV bank chipcard payment system (Chip and PIN).[3][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Education

Murdoch was educated at the University of Cambridge completing a PhD on computer security supervised by Markus Kuhn in 2008.[2]

References

  1. ^ Murdoch, S. J.; Lewis, S. (2005). "Embedding Covert Channels into TCP/IP". Information Hiding. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3727. p. 247. doi:10.1007/11558859_19. ISBN 978-3-540-29039-1.
  2. ^ a b Murdoch, Steven James (2008). Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ a b Steven J. Murdoch publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ Steven J. Murdoch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ Murdoch, Steven J.; Danezis, George (2005). "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis of Tor". 2005 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P'05) (PDF). p. 183. doi:10.1109/SP.2005.12. ISBN 0-7695-2339-0.
  6. ^ Murdoch, Steven J.; Drimer, Saar; Anderson, Ross; Bond, Mike (2010). "Chip and PIN is Broken". 2010 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (PDF). p. 433. doi:10.1109/SP.2010.33. ISBN 978-1-4244-6894-2.
  7. ^ Banking security, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
  8. ^ Threat to chip-and-pin terminals, BBC News, 2 January 2010
  9. ^ Murdoch, Steven J.'s publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  10. ^ Steven J. Murdoch author profile page at the ACM Digital Library Edit this at Wikidata
  11. ^ Steven J. Murdoch at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  12. ^ Steven Murdoch publications indexed by Microsoft Academic