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The Power of Procrastination: Detection and Mitigation of Execution-Stalling Malicious Code
August 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Malware continues to remain one of the most important security problems on the Internet today. Whenever an anti-malware solution becomes popular, malware authors typically react promptly and...
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Big Data and Cloud Computing: Current State and Future Opportunities
March 24, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Scalable DataBase Management Systems (DBMS) - both for update intensive application workloads as well as decision support systems for descriptive and deep analytics - are a critical part of the...
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To Boldly Go Where Invention Isn't Secure: Applying Security Entrepreneurship to Secure Systems Design
September 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
When designing secure systems, the authors are inundated with an eclectic mix of security and non-security requirements; this makes predicting a successful outcome from the universe of possible...
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Secure and Efficient Protocol for Mobile Payments
September 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Electronic Payments have gained tremendous popularity in the modern world. Credit/debit cards and online payments are in widespread use. Bringing electronic payments to the mobile world offers...
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Game Theory for Cyber Security
April 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
While there are significant advances in information technology and infrastructure which offer new opportunities, cyberspace is still far from completely secured. In many cases, the employed...
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A Search Engine for Finding Highly Relevant Applications
May 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A fundamental problem of finding applications that are highly relevant to development tasks is the mismatch between the high-level intent reflected in the descriptions of these tasks and low-level...
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Learning to Detect Malicious URLs
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Malicious web sites are a cornerstone of Internet criminal activities. The dangers of these sites have created a demand for safeguards that protect end-users from visiting them. This paper...
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Optimizing a Virtualized Data Center
August 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Many data centers extensively use Virtual Machines (VMs), which provide the flexibility to move workload among physical servers. VMs can be placed to maximize application performance, power...
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Modeling the HTML DOM and Browser API in Static Analysis of JavaScript Web Applications
June 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Developers of JavaScript web applications have little tool support for catching errors early in development. In comparison, an abundance of tools exist for statically typed languages, including...
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A Compiler and Run-time System for Network Programming Languages
January 27, 2012, 12:00am PST
Software-Defined Networks (SDNs) are a new kind of network architecture in which a controller machine manages a distributed collection of switches by instructing them to install or uninstall...
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Enhanced Intrusion Detection Systems in Ad Hoc Networks Using a Grid Based Agnostic Middleware
July 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With the increasing popularity of the wireless Ad Hoc networks, the security issue for mobile hosts could be even more serious than one expects. The intrinsic vulnerable characteristics of mobile...
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Principled Reasoning and Practical Applications of Alert Fusion in Intrusion Detection Systems
March 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It is generally believed that by combining several diverse intrusion detectors (i.e., forming an IDS ensemble), one may achieve better performance. However, there has been very little work on...
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Enhancing Interoperability and Stateful Analysis of Cooperative Network Intrusion Detection Systems
December 4, 2007, 12:00am PST
A traditional Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) is based on a centralized architecture that does not satisfy the needs of most modern network infrastructures characterized by high traffic...
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File-System Intrusion Detection by Preserving MAC DTS: A Loadable Kernel Module Based Approach for LINUX Kernel 2.6.x
April 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Every operating system has its own set of critical files, whose access is generally protected by access control mechanisms, native to the operating system. The importance of such files also...
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LIDeA: A Distributed Lightweight Intrusion Detection Architecture for Sensor Networks
September 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless sensor networks are vulnerable to adversaries as they are frequently deployed in open and unattended environments. Preventive mechanisms can be applied to protect them from an assortment...
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Correlation-Based Load Balancing for Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
September 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In large-scale enterprise networks, multiple network intrusion detection and prevention systems are used to provide high quality protections. In this context, keeping load evenly distributed among...
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Log-Based Distributed Intrusion Detection for Hybrid Networks
May 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a novel hybrid distributed security operation center which collects logs that are generated by any application, service, and protocol regardless of the layer of the protocol...
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Using Static Analysis for Ajax Intrusion Detection
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a static control-flow analysis for JavaScript programs running in a web browser. The analysis tackles numerous challenges posed by modern web applications including...
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Evaluating the Utility of Anonymized Network Traces for Intrusion Detection
September 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
To intelligently create policies governing the anonymization of network logs, one must analyze the effects of anonymization on both the security and utility of sanitized data. This paper focuses...
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SMM Rootkits: A New Breed of OS Independent Malware
September 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The emergence of hardware virtualization technology has led to the development of OS independent malware such as the Virtual Machine Based Rootkits (VMBRs). This paper draws attention to a...
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Semi-Supervised Co-Training and Active Learning Based Approach for Multi-View Intrusion Detection
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Although there is immense data available from networks and hosts, a very small proportion of this data is labeled due to the cost of obtaining expert labels. This proves to be a significant...
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SpySaver: Using Incentives to Address Spyware
August 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents SpySaver - a novel anti-spyware approach that reduces the incentive to deploy spyware. The approach does not prevent spyware installations, nor does it recover from them....
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Protecting the Web: Phishing, Malware, and Other Security Threats
April 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Web site operators, Internet users, and online service providers are besieged by a growing array of abuses and threats. Spam leads users to online scams and phishing Web pages, which...
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Anti-Phishing Based on Automated Individual White-List
October 31, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In phishing and pharming, users could be easily tricked into submitting their username/passwords into fraudulent web sites whose appearances look similar as the genuine ones. The traditional...
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A Framework for Detection and Measurement of Phishing Attacks
November 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Phishing is form of identity theft that combines social engineering techniques and sophisticated attack vectors to harvest financial information from unsuspecting consumers. Often a phisher tries...
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Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion
October 31, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Spam-based marketing is a curious beast. All receives the advertisements - " Excellent Hardness is Easy!" - but few of them have encountered a person who admits to following through on this offer...
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Measuring Network Security Using Dynamic Bayesian Network
October 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Given the increasing dependence of societies on networked information systems, the overall security of these systems should be measured and improved. Existing security metrics have generally...
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The Ecology of Malware
September 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The fight against malicious software (or malware, which includes everything from worms to viruses to botnets) is often viewed as an "Arms Race." Conventional wisdom is that one must continually...
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Visual-Similarity-Based Phishing Detection
September 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Phishing is a form of online fraud that aims to steal a user's sensitive information, such as online banking passwords or credit card numbers. The victim is tricked into entering such information...
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Thwarting E-mail Spam Laundering
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Laundering e-mail spam through open-proxies or compromised PCs is a widely-used trick to conceal real spam sources and reduce spamming cost in the underground e-mail spam industry. Spammers have...
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Increased DNS Forgery Resistance Through 0x20-Bit Encoding
October 31, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It describe a novel, practical and simple technique to make DNS queries more resistant to poisoning attacks: mix the upper and lower case spelling of the domain name in the query. Fortuitously,...
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Robust Defenses for Cross-Site Request Forgery
October 31, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is a widely exploited web site vulnerability. This paper presents a new variation on CSRF attacks, login CSRF, in which the attacker forges a cross-site request...
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Extracting Spam Blogs With Co-Citation Clusters
April 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper reports the estimated number of spam blogs in order to assess their current state in the blogosphere. To extract spam blogs, they developed a traversal method among co-citation clusters...
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Spam Decisions on Gray e-Mail Using Personalized Ontologies
March 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
E-mail is one of the most common communication methods among people on the Internet. However, the increase of e-mail misuse/abuse has resulted in an increasing volume of spam e-mail over recent...
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Detecting Image Spam Using Local Invariant Features and Pyramid Match Kernel
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Image spam is a new obfuscating method which spammers invented to more effectively bypass conventional text based spam filters. This paper extracts local invariant features of images and runs a...
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Exploring Linguistic Features for Web Spam Detection: A Preliminary Study
April 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies the usability of linguistic features in the Web spam classification task. The features were computed on two Web spam corpora: Webspam-Uk2006 and Webspam-Uk2007, they make them...
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Linked Latent Dirichlet Allocation in Web Spam Filtering
April 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a fully generative statistical language model on the content and topics of a corpus of documents. This paper applies an extension of LDA for web spam...
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OSD: An Online Web Spam Detection System
May 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Web spam which refers to any deliberate actions bringing to selected web pages an unjustifiable favorable relevance or importance is one of the major obstacles for high quality information...
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A Profitless Endeavor: Phishing as Tragedy of the Commons
September 25, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Conventional wisdom is that phishing represents easy money. This paper examines the economics that underly the phenomenon, and very different picture. Phishing is a classic example of tragedy of...
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iTrustPage: A User-Assisted Anti-Phishing Tool
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Despite the many solutions proposed by industry and the research community to address phishing attacks, this problem continues to cause enormous damage. Because of its inability to deter phishing...
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Distributed Adaptive Routing for Big-Data Applications Running on Data Center Networks
October 30, 2012, 12:00am PDT
With the growing popularity of big-data applications, Data Center Networks increasingly carry larger and longer traffic flows. As a result of this increased flow granularity, static routing cannot...
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Securing Communications Between External Users and Wireless Body Area Networks
April 19, 2013, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Body Area Networks (BANs) are expected to play a crucial role in patient-health monitoring in the near future. Establishing secure communications between BAN sensors and external users is...
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Reliable Neighbor Discovery for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
September 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors define a reliable neighbor discovery layer for mobile ad-hoc networks and present two algorithms that implement this layer as a service with varying progress guarantees. Their...
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Mathematical Frameworks for Pricing in the Cloud: Revenue, Fairness, and Resource Allocations
December 10, 2012, 12:00am PST
As more and more users begin to use the cloud for their computing needs, datacenter operators are increasingly pressed to effectively allocate their resources among these client users. Yet while...
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Firewall Policy Change-Impact Analysis
March 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Firewalls are the cornerstones of the security infrastructure for most enterprises. They have been widely deployed for protecting private networks. The quality of the protection provided by a...
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XEngine: A Fast and Scalable XACML Policy Evaluation Engine
June 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
XACML has become the de facto standard for specifying access control policies for various applications, especially web services. With the explosive growth of web applications deployed on the...
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Characterizing and Modeling Internet Traffic Dynamics of Cellular Devices
June 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Understanding Internet traffic dynamics in large cellular networks is important for network design, troubleshooting, performance evaluation, and optimization. In this paper, the authors present...
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Every Bit Counts - Fast and Scalable RFID Estimation
August 26, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) systems have been widely deployed for various applications such as object tracking, 3D positioning, supply chain management, inventory control, and access...
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Developing Applications in the Cloud Through the SelfLet Framework
October 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing is an emergent technology which allows the cost effective and flexible development of distributed applications including a large number of heterogeneous nodes, distributed across...
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Achieving Resilience of Heterogeneous Networks Through Predictive, Formal Analysis
April 11, 2013, 12:00am PDT
Rapid development and wide deployment of wireless technologies in recent years have brought an increasing number and variety of services that are accessible directly from mobile terminals via...
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Enhancing Cellular Infrastructures: A Reflective Approach
December 12, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors make a case of a reflective architecture for cellular systems as means to support flexibility and evolvability of the existing cellular network infrastructure to deal...
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Rich Content Sharing in Mobile Systems Using Multiple Wireless Networks
December 3, 2012, 12:00am PST
There has been an increasing popularity of applications deployed on mobile devices, such as Smartphones or tablets. Many of them, e.g., YouTube, Pandora, Facebook, etc., require access to the...
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An Experimental Study on Scalable Video Streaming Over Hybrid Cellular and Ad Hoc Networks
December 12, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors consider scalable video streaming from a base station over a hybrid cellular and ad hoc network to a large number of mobile devices. While such a system has been recently studied,...
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A Meta-Model for Performance Modeling of Dynamic Virtualized Network Infrastructures
April 24, 2013, 12:00am PDT
The increasing popularity of Cloud Computing is leading to the emergence of large virtualized data centers hosting increasingly complex and dynamic IT systems and services. The performance of...
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Lomo: Location Resolution of Mobile Hosts Using Internet Routing Structures
November 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
The DNS has performed the resolution for quasistatic hosts so far. However, mapping from the names of mobile hosts to their locators is increasingly important. The authors propose a new resolution...
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How to Realize CDN Interconnection (CDNI) Over OpenFlow?
September 12, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Traffic of content-oriented applications/service is increasingly more dominant. How to support content delivery and distribution efficiently is one of the important issues in future Internet...
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Efficient Measurements of IP Level Performance to Drive Interface Selection in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
July 31, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Several solutions have been proposed for mobility management in IP based heterogeneous networks, working at different protocol levels, from layer 2 up to application level. In order to take the...
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Could In-Network Caching Benefit Information-Centric Networking?
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Information-Centric Networking is (ICN) gaining increasingly concerns, as an important direction of the future Internet architecture research. Although In-network caching is considered as one of...
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A Survey of Mobility in Information-Centric Networks: Challenges and Research Directions
June 11, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In essence, an Information-Centric Network (ICN) is one which supports a content request/reply model. One proposed benefit of this is improved mobility. This can refer to provider, consumer or...
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Greening the Internet with Content-Centric Networking
March 7, 2010, 12:00am PST
The vast majority of current Internet usage consists of content being disseminated from a source to a number of users, ranging from distributing conventional multi-media data (e.g., IPTV, Hulu and...
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VoCCN: Voice-over Content-Centric Networks
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
A variety of proposals call for a new Internet architecture focused on retrieving content by name, but it has not been clear that any of these approaches are general enough to support Internet...
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Rapid Traffic Information Dissemination Using Named Data
June 11, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors applied the Named Data Networking (NDN) concept to Vehicle-To-Vehicle (V2V) communications. Specifically, they develop a simple traffic information dissemination...
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A New Approach to Securing Audio Conference Tools
November 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Named Data Networking (NDN), a recently proposed Internet architecture based on content-centric networking, is designed to secure data directly, instead of securing the communication channel...
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A Layered Naming Architecture for the Internet
November 8, 2007, 12:00am PST
Currently the Internet has only one level of name resolution, DNS, which converts user-level domain names into IP addresses. In this paper, the authors borrow liberally from the literature to...
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SipCloud: Dynamically Scalable SIP Proxies in the Cloud
August 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
One of the features of cloud computing platforms is the ability to scale applications dynamically. Generally, this feature is used in a web services context where the web service provider adds...
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Bootstrapping Large-Scale DHT Networks
December 13, 2007, 12:00am PST
On August 16th 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network suffered a worldwide failure, which left millions of users unable to use the popular Voice-over-IP service for two days. The recent disruption...
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Application and Desktop Sharing
December 13, 2007, 12:00am PST
Application and desktop sharing allows sharing any application with one or more people over the Internet. The participants receive the screen-view of the shared application from the server. Their...
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Template-Based Signaling Compression for Push-To-Talk over Cellular (PoC)
March 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has been chosen as the standard signaling protocol for the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). SIP is a text-based protocol with messages often exceeding 1000...
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On the Feasibility of Online Malware Detection with Performance Counters
April 25, 2013, 12:00am PDT
The proliferation of computers in any domain is followed by the proliferation of malware in that domain. Systems, including the latest mobile platforms, are laden with viruses, rootkits, spyware,...
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Honey@home: A New Approach to LargeScale Threat Monitoring
November 2, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Honeypots have been shown to be very useful for accurately detecting attacks, including zero-day threats, at a reason-able cost and without false positives. However, there are two pressing...
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Eudaemon: Involuntary and On-Demand Emulation Against Zero-Day Exploits
April 4, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Eudaemon is a technique that aims to blur the borders between protected and unprotected applications, and brings together honeypot technology and end-user Intrusion Detection and prevention....
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Exploiting Split Browsers for Efficiently Protecting User Data
October 19, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Offloading complex tasks to a resource-abundant environment like the cloud, can extend the capabilities of resource constrained mobile devices, extend battery life, and improve user experience....
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libdft: Practical Dynamic Data Flow Tracking for Commodity Systems
March 4, 2012, 12:00am PST
Dynamic Data Flow Tracking (DFT) deals with tagging and tracking data of interest as they propagate during program execution. DFT has been repeatedly implemented by a variety of tools for numerous...
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Correct Horse Battery Staple: Exploring the Usability of System-Assigned Passphrases
July 13, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Users tend to create passwords that are easy to guess, while system-assigned passwords tend to be hard to remember. Passphrases, space-delimited sets of natural language words, have been suggested...
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Tapas: Design, Implementation, and Usability Evaluation of a Password Manager
December 7, 2012, 12:00am PST
Passwords continue to prevail on the web as the primary method for user authentication despite their well-known security and usability drawbacks. Password managers offer some improvement without...
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Abusing Cloud-Based Browsers for Fun and Profit
December 7, 2012, 12:00am PST
Cloud services have become a cheap and popular means of computing. They allow users to synchronize data between devices and relieve low-powered devices from heavy computations. In response to the...
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CloudER: A Framework for Automatic Software Vulnerability Location and Patching in the Cloud
May 4, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In a virtualization-based cloud infrastructure, customers of the cloud deploy Virtual Machines (VMs) with their own applications and customized runtime environments. The cloud provider supports...
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Using Batteries to Reduce the Power Costs of Internet-Scale Distributed Networks
October 17, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Modern Internet-scale distributed networks have hundreds of thousands of servers deployed in hundreds of locations and networks around the world. Canonical examples of such networks are Content...
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Linking Anonymous Location Traces Through Driving Characteristics
February 20, 2013, 12:00am PST
Efforts to anonymize collections of location traces have often sought to reduce re-identification risks by dividing longer traces into multiple shorter, unlinkable segments. To ensure...
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Sensing Vehicle Dynamics for Determining Driver Phone Use
April 11, 2013, 12:00am PDT
This paper utilizes Smartphone sensing of vehicle dynamics to determine driver phone use, which can facilitate many traffic safety applications. The authors' system uses embedded sensors in...
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