My publications

(Last updated 9 April 2017)

Also see listings at DBLP, Google Scholar, Heriot-Watt’s Research Gateway, and ORCID.

You can also see my list of past and upcoming presentations.

“Factors Influencing the Purchase of Security Software for Mobile Devices — Case Study”, to appear in Infocommunications Journal, IEEE.
Authors: Vlasta Stavova, Vashek Matyas, and Mike Just.
“Keeping Children Safe Online: Understanding the Concerns of Carers of Children with Autism”, accepted to appear in INTERACT 2017, Springer.
Authors: Mike Just and Tessa Berg.
“Everything’s Cool: Extending Security Warnings with Thermal Feedback”, to appear in CHI EA 2017, ACM.
Authors: Graham Wilson, Harry Maxwell, and Mike Just.

“Codes v. People: A comparative usability study of two password recovery mechanisms”, WISTP 2016.
Authors: Vlasta Stavova, Vashek Matyas, and Mike Just.
“On the impact of warning interfaces for enabling the detection of Potentially Unwanted Applications”, in European Workshop on Usable Security (EuroUSEC 2016).
[paper]
Authors: Vlasta Stavova, Vashek Matyas, and Mike Just.
“Tag-Protector: An Effective and Dynamic Detection of Illegal Memory Accesses”, Advances in Software Engineering. (Extended version of CS² workshop paper below.)
[paper]
Authors: Ahmed Saeed, Ali Ahmadinia and Mike Just.
“Secure On-Chip Communication Architecture for Reconfigurable Multi-core Systems”, Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers.
[paper]
Authors: Ahmed Saeed, Ali Ahmadinia and Mike Just
“Investigating time series visualisations to improve the user experience”, ACM CHI 2016.
[paper, presentation]
23.4% acceptance rate (>2300 submissions)
Authors: Muhammad Adnan, Mike Just, Lynne Baillie
“Tag-Protector: An Effective and Dynamic Detection of Out-of-bound Memory Accesses”, Third Workshop on Cryptography and Security in Computing Systems (CS², co-located with HiPEAC 2016), ACM.
Authors: Ahmed Saeed, Ali Ahmadinia and Mike Just

Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Web 2.0 Security and Privacy (W2SP) 2015, arXiv.org, 22 June 2015. [proceedings]
Editors: Abigail Goldsteen, Tyrone Grandison, Mike Just, Larry Koved, Rohan Malcolm, Sean Thorpe
“Why aren’t users using protection? Investigating the usability of smartphone locking”, MobileHCI 2015, ACM. [paper: authors’ version, publisher version]
Honorable Mention Award (top 5% of submissions)
Authors: Nicholas Micallef, Mike Just, Lynne Baillie, Martin Halvey, Gunes Kayacik
“Sensor use and usefulness: Trade-offs for data-driven authentication on mobile devices”, PerCom 2015, IEEE. [paper: authors’ version, publisher version]
14.8% acceptance rate (29 out of 196)
Authors: Nicholas Micallef, Gunes Kayacik, Mike Just, Lynne Baillie, David Aspinall
“Investigating the work practices of network security professionals”, in Information and Computer Security (ICS), Emerald, 2015. [paper: authors’ version, publisher version]
Authors: Muhammad Adnan, Mike Just, Lynne Baillie, Gunes Kayacik

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Mobile Security Technologies (MoST), arXiv.org, 24 Oct 2014. [proceedings]
Editors: Larry Koved, Kapil Singh, Hao Chen, and Mike Just
“An ID and Address Protection Unit for NoC based Communication Architectures”, SIN 2014, ACM. [paper: publisher version]
Authors: Ahmed Saeed, Ali Ahmadinia, Mike Just and Christophe Bobda
“Authentication frequency as an important design factor”, WAY Workshop at SOUPS 2014. [paper, slides]
Author: Mike Just
“Data Driven Authentication: On the Effectiveness of User Behaviour Modelling with Mobile Device Sensors”, MoST 2014, arXiv.org. [paper, slides]
Press: BBC News, New Scientist, Daily Mail
Authors: Gunes Kayacik, Mike Just, Lynne Baillie, David Aspinall, Nicholas Micallef

“‘Stop Questioning Me!’: Towards Optimizing User Involvement during Data Collection on Mobile Devices”, MobileHCI 2013. [paper: authors’ version, publisher version]
Authors: Nicholas Micallef, Mike Just, Lynne Baillie, Gunes Kayacik
“Non-intrusive and transparent authentication on smart phones”, Trust 2013, Springer.
[paper: publisher version]:
Awarded best poster presentation at conference.
Authors: Nicholas Micallef, Mike Just, Lynne Baillie, Gunes Kayacik
“‘Give Me Letters 2, 3 and 6!’: Partial Password Implementations and Attacks”, Financial Cryptography 2013), Springer. [paper: authors’ version, publisher version]:
12.5% (full paper) acceptance (14 out of 112)
Press: New Scientist
Authors: David Aspinall, Mike Just

“On the Security and Usability of Dual Credential Authentication in UK Online Banking”, ICITST-2012, IEEE. [paper: publisher version]
Authors: Mike Just, David Aspinall
“Trends in Government E-Authentication Policy and Practice,” in K.J. Bwalya & S.F. Zulu (Eds.), E-Government in Emerging Economies – Adoption, Continuance Usage, e-Participation and legal frameworks, IGI Global, 2012. [chapter: publisher version]
Authors: Karen Renaud, Mike Just

“Using Avatars for Improved Authentication with Challenge Questions”, SECURWARE 2011. [paper: publisher version]
Authors: Nicholas Micallef, Mike Just
“Social Security,” BCS Interfaces, vol. 86, Spring 2011. [paper]
Author: Mike Just

“Pictures or Questions? Examining User Responses to Association-Based Authentication,” British HCI 2010. [paper: authors’ version]
Authors: Karen Renaud, Mike Just
“Challenging Challenge Questions: An Experimental Analysis of Authentication Technologies and User Behaviour,” Policy and Internet Journal: Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 5, 2010. [paper: publisher version]
Authors: Mike Just, David Aspinall
“What’s in a Name? Evaluating Statistical Attacks Against Personal Knowledge Questions,” Financial Cryptography 2010, Springer. [paper: authors’ version, presentation, data]:
14.6% (full paper) acceptance (19 out of 130)
Press: BBC News, New Scientist, The Telegraph
Authors: Joseph Bonneau, Mike Just, Greg Matthews

Mike Just, David Aspinall, “Personal Choice and Challenge Questions: A Security and Usability Assessment,” in Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2009.
[paper, presentation, experiment info]
Press: ZDNet
Mike Just, “Designing and Evaluating Challenge-Question Systems”, in IEEE Security & Privacy, 2(5): 32-39 (2004) [paper]
Mike Just, Evangelos Kranakis, Tao Wan, “Resisting Malicious Packet Dropping in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”, ADHOC-NOW 2003, 151-163 [paper]
Mike Just, Paul C. van Oorschot, “Addressing the Problem of Undetected Signature Key Compromise”, NDSS 1999.
[paper]: 24% acceptance
Mike Just, “Some Timestamping Protocol Failures”, NDSS 1998
[paper]: 33.3% acceptance (15 out of 45)
Mike Just, Serge Vaudenay, “Authenticated Multi-Party Key Agreement”, ASIACRYPT 1996, 36-49
[paper]: 25% acceptance (31 out of 124)
Mike Just, Evangelos Kranakis, Danny Krizanc, Paul C. van Oorschot, “On Key Distribution via True Broadcasting”, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 1994, 81-88
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