History

PST Conference & Industry Day Opening Remarks:
Prof. Sanjay Jha, Director of Research and Innovation at School of Computer Science and Engineering UNSW Australia,
Dr. Shabnam Kasra, Program Committee Chair,
Prof. Attila Brungs, Vice-Chancellor and President at UNSW Australia,
Prof. Stephen Rodda, Pro Vice-Chancellor Industry and Innovation at UNSW Australia
Lee Barney, General Manager Technology Security at TPG Telecom Australia

9:15 - 9:45

Keynote 1:
Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinness, National Cyber Security Coordinator at Department of Home Affairs Australia.

9:45 - 10:00

Keynote 2:
Giovanni Chiarelli, Group Chief Technology Officer at TPG Telecom Australia.

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:15

Panel 1: Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Adoption for Communications
Moderator: Lee Barney, General Manager Technology Security at TPG Telecom Australia,
Panellists:
Dr. Surya Nepal, Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Data61 Australia,
Kiranmai Akidi, Business Relationship Manager at Tata Consultancy Services Australia,
Rizwan Mahmood, Chief Technology Officer & Founder at GuardWare Australia,
Vikas Dahiya, Cybersecurity Global Sales Leader- Cloud and Network Services at Nokia

11:15 - 12:00

Panel 2: Weaponization of AI and the Digital Arms Race
Moderator: Prof. Sanjay Jha, Director of Research and Innovation at School of Computer Science and Engineering UNSW Australia,
Panellists:
Richard Searle, Chief AI Officer at Fortanix United Kingdom,
Stuart Peck, Head of Attack & Respond at TPG Telecom Australia,
Prof. Toby Walsh, ARC Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of AI at UNSW and CSIRO Data61 Australia,
Prof. Ganna Pogrebna, Executive Director – Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Futures Institute at Charles Sturt University Australia

12:00 - 13:00

Initiative Presentations (5-10 Mins Per initiative, Hybrid)

13:00 - 14:00

Networking Lunch

14:00 - 14:30

Initiative Presentations (5-10 Mins Per initiative, Hybrid)

14:30 - 15:15

Panel 3: Security of Critical Infrastructure (SOCI)
Moderator: Dr. Amit Chaubey, National Cyber Security Advisor at Australia India Business Council (AIBC),
Panellists:
Prof. Helge Janicke, Deputy CEO and Research Director at Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC) Australia,
Dr. Susanne Lloyd-Jones, CSCRC Post Doctoral Fellow at UNSW Faculty of Law and Justice Australia,
Nick Ellsmore, Partner – Cyber at Mantel Group Australia,
Amanda Sutton, Acting Director Communication and Coordination, CISG at Department of Home Affairs Australia,
William Coote, Managing Associate at Allens

15:15 - 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 - 16:30

Panel 4: Lessons from General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Avoiding Mistakes in Data Privacy Regulation
Moderator: Kate Carruthers, Chief Data & Insights Officer at UNSW Australia,
Panellists:
Dr. Tatiana Bokareva, Principal Data Scientist at Teradata Australia,
Michael Loewy, Co-Founder / CEO at Tide Foundation,
Kate Monckton, Cyber Partner at Deloitte,
Vineet Kumar, Founder and Global President at CyberPeace

16:30 - 16:45

Closing Remarks

16:45 - 18:00

Networking Drinks/ Demo (Sponsored by School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) - UNSW Sydney),
Opening Remarks -
Prof. Julien Epps, Dean at UNSW Australia and Prof. Arcot Sowmya, Head of School at School of Computer Science and Engineering UNSW Australia

Thursday, August 29th

Time

Event

09:10-10:10

Session 1: INVITED TALK: Albert Zomaya (Chair: Erik Buchholz)

10:10- 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-12:10

Session 2A: Security Track (Chair: Erik Buchholz)

10:30-10:50

William Aiken, Paula Branco and Guy-Vincent Jourdan. DevilDiffusion: Embedding Hidden Noise Backdoors into Diffusion Models

10:50-11:10

Mohammed-El-Amin Tebib, Oum-El-Kheir Aktouf, Pascal André and Mariem Graa. PrivBench: A Benchmark Capturing Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in Android (ONLINE TALK)

11:10-11:30

Kevin Saric, Gowri Sankar Ramachandran, Raja Jurdak and Surya Nepal. Efficient Data Security Using Predictions of File Availability on the Web

11:30-11:50

Saurabh Anand, Shubham Malaviya, Manish Shukla and Sachin Lodha. CompFreeze : Combining Compacters and Layer Freezing for Enhanced Pre-Trained Language Model (ONLINE TALK)

11:50-12:10

Ross Porter, Morteza Biglari-Abhari, Duleepa Thrimawithana and Benjamin Tan. Extending ISO 15118-20 EV Charging: Preventing Downgrade Attacks and Enabling New Security Capabilities

10:30-11:50

Session 2B: Privacy Track (Chair: Juliet Samandari)

10:30-10:50

Huanyi Ye, Ziyao Liu, Yu Jiang, Jiale Guo and Kwok-Yan Lam. Malicious Unlearning in Ensemble Models

10:50-11:10

Atthapan Daramas, Vimal Kumar and Marinho Barcellos. Quantifying Privacy in Cooperative Awareness Services Through Trajectory Reconstruction

11:10-11:30

Masaya Kobayashi, Atsushi Fujioka, Koji Chida, Akira Nagai and Kan Yasuda. $Pk$-Anonymization Meets Differential Privacy

11:30-11:50

Mst Mahamuda Sarkar Mithila, Fangyi Yu, Miguel Vargas Martin and Shengqian Wang. Visualizing Differential Privacy: Assessing Infographics’ Impact on Layperson Data-sharing Decisions and Comprehension

12:10-13:30

Lunch

13:30-14:30

Session 3: INVITED TALK: Willy Susilo (Chair: Nazatul Sultan)

14:30-14:50

Coffee Break

14:50-16:30

Session 4A: Security Track (Chair: Nazatul Sultan)

14:50-15:10

Abdelfattah Amamra, Rym Khettab and Raissa Mezine. Enhancing Network Intrusion Detection Systems: A Review of Feature Selection Algorithms for Streaming Data Processing

15:10-15:30

Arthur Drichel and Ulrike Meyer. A Comprehensive Study on Multi-Task Learning for Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) Detection

15:30-15:50

Juliet Samandari and Clémentine Gritti. Post-Quantum Authentication and Integrity in 3-Layer IoT Architectures

15:50-16:10

Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad and Nitesh Saxena. Mobile Login Bridge: Subverting 2FA and Passwordless Authentication via Android Debug Bridge. (ONLINE TALK)

16:10-16:30

Duc-Thuan Dam, Trong-Hung Nguyen, Thai-Ha Tran, Binh Kieu-Do-Nguyen, Trong-Thuc Hoang and Cong-Kha Pham. An Efficient Method for Accelerating Kyber and Dilithium Post-Quantum Cryptography.

14:50-15:50

Session 4B: Privacy track (Chair: Xiaojie Zhu)

14:50-15:10

Jinglin Sun, Basem Suleiman and Imdad Ullah. Effectiveness of Privacy-Preserving Algorithms for Large Language Models: A Benchmark Analysis

15:10-15:30

Costanza Alfieri, Suriya Ganesh Ayyamperumal, Limin Ge, Jingxin Shi and Norman Sadeh. “I was diagnosed with...": sensitivity detection and rephrasing of Amazon reviews with ChatGPT (ONLINE TALK)

15:30-15:50

Hiroaki Anada, Masayuki Fukumitsu and Shingo Hasegawa. Group Signatures with Designated Traceability over Openers' Attributes from Symmetric-Key Primitives

15:50-16:20

Session 5: Trust Track (Chair: Xiaojie Zhu)

15:50-16:10

Huong Nguyen, Hong-Tri Nguyen, Lauri Loven and Susanna Pirttikangas. Stake-Driven Rewards and Log-Based Free Rider Detection in Federated Learning (ONLINE TALK)

Gala Dinner

Friday, August 30th

Time

Event

09:00-10:00

Session 6A: Privacy Track (Chair: Zhibo Zhang)

09:00-09:20

Jesse Merhi, Erik Buchholz and Salil S. Kanhere. Synthetic Trajectory Generation Through Convolutional Neural Networks

09:20-09:40

Mahmuda Akter, Nour Moustafa and Benjamin Turnbull. PEL: Privacy Embedded Learning in Smart Healthcare Systems (ONLINE TALK)

09:40-10:00

Malte Breuer, Ulrike Meyer and Susanne Wetzel. Efficient Integration of Exchange Chains in Privacy-Preserving Kidney Exchange

09:00-10:00

Session 6B: Security Track (Chair: Sayed Amir Hoseini)

09:00-09:20

Zehui Tang, Shengke Zeng, Song Han, Qi Yu, Shihai Jiang and Peng Chen. DEFD: Dual-Entity Fuzzy Deduplication for Untrusted Environments

09:20-09:40

Mohamed Abdelsalam, Isaac Mpidi Bita, Simon Greiner, Oum-El-Kheir Aktouf and Annabelle Mercier. Model-Based Security Analysis of Interconnected Subsystems: A Methodology for Security Compatibility Evaluation

09:40-10:00

Brooke Kidmose and Weizhi Meng. can-fp: An attack-aware analysis of false alarms in automotive intrusion detection models (ONLINE TALK)

10:00- 10:20

Coffee Break

10:20-11:20

Session 7A: Emerging Technologies and Trends Track (Chair: Sayed Amir Hoseini)

10:20-10:40

Raymond K. Zhao, Nazatul H. Sultan, Phillip Yialeloglou, Dongxi Liu, David Liebowitz and Josef Pieprzyk. MIKA: A Minimalist Approach to Hybrid Key Exchange

10:40-11:00

Qi Li and Xiaodong Lin. Proactive Audio Authentication using Speaker Identity Watermarking (ONLINE TALK)

11:00-11:20

Guibin Zhao, Pengfei Li, Zhibo Zhang, Fusen Guo, Xueting Huang, Wei Xu, Jinyin Wang and Jianlong Chen. Towards SAR Automatic Target Recognition Multi- Category SAR Image Classification Based on Light Weight Vision Transformer. (ONLINE TALK)

10:20-11:40

Session 7B: Security Track (Chair: Arash Shaghaghi)

10:20-10:40

Sandro Rodriguez Garzon, Dennis Natusch, Artur Philipp, Axel Küpper, Hans Joachim Einsiedler and Daniela Schneider. DID Link: Authentication in TLS with Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials

10:40-11:00

Thai-Ha Tran, Duc-Thuan Dam, Binh Kieu-Do-Nguyen, Van-Phuc Hoang, Trong-Thuc Hoang and Cong-Kha Pham. Hardware Implementation of a Hybrid Dynamic Gold Code-Based Countermeasure Against Side-Channel Attacks

11:00-11:20

Hesamodin Mohammadian, Arash Habibi Lashkari and Ali Ghorbani. Poisoning and Evasion: Deep Learning-Based NIDS under Adversarial Attacks

11:20-11:40

Anuradha Mandal and Nitesh Saxena. Disease Detector: A Disease Inference Attack Using Brainwave Signals Associated with Body Postures (ONLINE TALK)

11:20-11:40

Zhibo Zhang, Jiankun Hu, Hemanshu Pota, Shabnam Kasra Kermanshahi, Benjamin Turnbull, Ernesto Damiani, Chan Yeob Yeun. Experimental Demonstration of Risks and Influences of Cyber Attacks on Wireless Communication in Microgrids.

11:40-12:30

Brunch

Important Dates

Paper Submission:
~~May 1, 2024~~
May 18, 2024, 11:59pm (AoE)

Acceptance Notification:
July 1, 2024

Camera-Ready:
July 17, 2024

Conference Date:
August 28-30, 2024