News

  • 22/11/2024 – Research poster accepted to the ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2025. Congratulations, Akila!
  • 02/11/2024 – Fariza Rashid won the Best Cybersecurity Application Prize at the 2024 School of Computer Science Research Showcase. Congratulations!
  • 28/10/2024 Research Paper Accepted to IEEE/CVF WACV. Congratulations, Naveen.
  • 27/10/2024 Mohit Malik joined NSS Labs as a PhD student, conducting research in AI Governance. Welcome aboard, Mohit.
  • 11/10/2024 – Our paper received the Best Paper Award at the 49th IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference. Congratulations to Niruth and Yasiru!
  • 08/10/2024 – Congratulations to Thilni for winning the Best Paper Award at the Engineering Excellence Awards 2024, presented by The Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (NSW Chapter)
  • 19/09/2024 Cyber & Pizza – In collaboration with SYNCS, NSS Labs hosted a workshop on Open Source Intelligence.
  • 16/09/2024 Pasindu Marasinge joined NSS Labs as a PhD student, conducting research in multi-objective optimization for industry processes. Welcome aboard, Pasindu.
  • 13/09/2024 Research Paper Accepted to IEEE BuildSec. Congratulations, Bhanuka and Dishanika.
  • 05/09/2024 Cyber & Pizza – In collaboration with SYNCS, NSS Labs hosted a workshop on Digital forensics.
  • 22/08/2024 Dr. Suranga Seneviratne was interviewed by ABC News about recent Booking.com scams.
  • 21/08/2024 The NSS Labs team conducted a cyber competition for Bonnyrigg High School.
  • 15/08/2024 Bhanuka Silva’s talk, titled “Even Large Language Models Can’t Understand Privacy Policies: Towards Building LLM-Based Solutions to Make Privacy Policies More User-Friendly,” was accepted for the 2024 Australian Cyber Conference – Melbourne Edition, which will be held from 26-28 November 2024.
  • 07/08/2024 Dr. Suranga Seneviratne was interviewed by SBS News about the risks of software updates from third-party companies.
  • 05/08/2024 Dr. Charika De Alvis receives a two-year fellowship from NIPG scheme.
  • 05/08/2024 NSS Labs received funding from the NISDRG Scheme.
  • 31/07/2024 Gaurav Verma joined NSS Labs as a PhD student, conducting research in Wireless/IoT Security. Welcome aboard, Gaurav.
  • 2024-06-27 Dr Suranga Seneviratne was interviewed by SBS on seasonal trends of scam messages.
  • 2024-06-19 Research Paper Accepted to AINTEC. Congratulations Yasod and Thilini.
  • 2024-05-30 Dr. Suranga Seneviratne gave an invited talk to ISC2 Colombo Chapter on Security and Privacy risks of AI.
  • 2024-05-28 Naveen gave a talk to Axiata Digital Labs on “Beyond the Known: Advances in Out-of-Distribution Detection in Deep Learning”.
  • 2024-05-24 Cyber & Pizza is back again. Dr Suranga Seneviratne and Yasod Ginige, in collaboration with SYNCS, hosted the second workshop in the series on practical pen-testing.
  • 2024-05-15 Dr. Suranga Seneviratne was featured in this year’s USYD alumni magazine.
  • 2024-05-06 Fariza received a university-level “Grant in Aid” travel scholarship to attend Oxford ML Summer School and visit the University of Southampton. Congratulations, Fariza. 
  • 2024-05-06 Research paper accepted for IEEE Internet of Things Journal. Congratulations, Ravin and Sandani.
  • 2024-04-18 Dr. Suranga Seneviratne and Yasod Ginige, in collaboration with SYNCS, conducted a workshop on Web Application Security for USYD undergraduates and postgraduates.
  • 2024-04-04 Research paper accepted for Elsevier Computer Networks. Congratulations, Fariza.
  • 2024-03-26 Fariza gave a talk on “Robust URL classification with Unsupervised Domain Adaptation” at the 2024 Australian Cyber Conference – Canberra Edition.
  • 2024-02-03 PhD student Nishavi Ranaweera attended the Pingala Interactions in Computing, Mysore, India organised by ACM India.
  • 2024-02-01 Dr Suranga Seneviratne was interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald on recently published scam numbers by Scamwatch/ACCC and the future trends in scams with artificial intelligence.
  • 2024-01-08 Yasod Ginige joined the group funded by the NSW Connectivity Innovation Network as a PhD student. Welcome Yasod.
  • 2023-12-29 Fariza Rashid’s talk, titled ‘Robust URL Classification with Unsupervised Domain Adaptation,’ got accepted as a breakout talk at the 2024 Australian Cyber Conference – Canberra Edition, which will be held from March 25 to 27, 2024.
  • 2023-11-23 Dr. Suranga Seneviratne gave a key note titled “Security and Privacy: The Next Frontier in AI” at the USYD-Vin University Cybersecurity and AI Summit.
  • 2023-08-21 Research paper accepted for Elsevier Computer Networks. Congratulations, Thilini and Yasod.
  • 2023-08-17 Research poster accepted for ACM MSWiM, 2023. Congratulations, Oshan and Fariza.
  • 2023-08-08 Dr Suranga Seneviratne gave an invited talk to the NBN Security Forum on Encrypted Traffic Analytics and Defences.
  • 2023-08-02 Opinion piece by Dr Suranga Seneviratne on online scams and generative AI was published in the Sydney Morning Herald.
  • 2023-07-25 Dr Suranga Seneviratne gave a talk to Axiata Digital Labs on Explainable AI Methods
  • 2023-05-25 The first PhD student from NSS Lab graduated at USYD – Congratulations Dr Thilini Dahanayaka !!
  • 2023-05-12 NSS Lab received funding from the NSW Connectivity Innovation Network to conduct research in AI-driven Red and Blue Teaming to conduct research in from the NSW connectivity innovation network.
  • 2023-04-22 Research Poster Accepted to Asia CCS 2023. Congratulations Yian Wang and Thilini Dahanayaka !!
  • 2023-04-11 Dr Suranga Seneviratne joined the SBS Settlement Guide Podcast to discuss the increasing risks of identity theft in Australia.
  • 2023-03-20 Opinion piece by Dr Suranga Seneviratne and Prof Carol Hsu on how the proposed SMS sender ID regulation will help to fight scams in Australia was published in The Conversation.
  • 2022-12-20 NSS Research Group received to build a Cyber Range/Offensive Security lab in the School of Computer Science from the Provost’s CAPEX funding scheme.
  • 2022-11-18 Dr Suranga Seneviratne delivered a keynote on “Misinformation Detection in Social Networks” at the Axiata Digital Labs AI Summit.