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	Computer Science Department, University College London
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.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][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. Murdoch, Steven James (2008). Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
3. Steven Murdoch's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a 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) (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. Steven Murdoch's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
10. Steven Murdoch from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
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