Steven Murdoch

Dr. Steven Murdoch
Born Steven James Murdoch
Residence United Kingdom
Nationality British
Fields Security
Privacy
Anonymous communication[1][2]
Chip and PIN
Europay, Master and Visa (EMV)[3]
Institutions Christ's College, Cambridge
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Thesis Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems (2008)
Doctoral advisor Markus Kuhn[4]
Known for Tor project[5]
EMV/Chip and PIN[6]
Website
twitter.com/sjmurdoch
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217

Steven James Murdoch is a security researcher at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. 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][13]

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 3727. p. 247. doi:10.1007/11558859_19. ISBN 978-3-540-29039-1.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Murdoch, Steven James (2008). Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Steven Murdoch's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a free service provided by Google
  4. ↑ Steven Murdoch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ Murdoch, Steven J.; Danezis, George (2005). "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis of Tor". 2005 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P'05). 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. 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. ↑ Steven Murdoch's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  10. ↑ Steven Murdoch from the ACM Portal
  11. ↑ Steven Murdoch's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
  12. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  13. ↑ Steven Murdoch on Twitter