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Measurement and Classification of Humans and Bots in Internet Chat
June 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The abuse of chat services by automated programs, known as chat bots, poses a serious threat to Internet users. Chat bots target popular chat networks to distribute spam and malware. This paper,...
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White Papers
Effective and Efficient Malware Detection at the End Host
June 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Malware is one of the most serious security threats on the Internet today. In fact, most Internet problems such as spam e-mails and denial of service attacks have malware as their underlying...
Provided by USENIX Association
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Whitepapers
DIADS: Addressing the "My-Problem-or-Yours" Syndrome With Integrated SAN and Database Diagnosis
January 27, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors present DIADS, an integrated DIAgnosis tool for Databases and Storage Area Networks (SANs). Existing diagnosis tools in this domain have a database-only or SAN-only focus. DIADS is a...
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White Papers
Building a More Secure Web Browser
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The modern Web browser has evolved from a relatively simple client application designed to display static data into a complex networked operating system tasked with managing many facets of online...
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White Papers
PrETP: Privacy-Preserving Electronic Toll Pricing
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Current Electronic Toll Pricing (ETP) implementations rely on on-board units sending fine-grained location data to the service provider. The authors present PrETP, a privacy-preserving ETP system...
Provided by USENIX Association
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White Papers
Adapting Software Fault Isolation to Contemporary CPU Architectures
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Software Fault Isolation (SFI) is an effective approach to sandboxing binary code of questionable provenance, an interesting use case for native plugins in a Web browser. The authors present...
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White Papers
Static Checking of Dynamically-Varying Security Policies in Database-Backed Applications
September 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a system for sound static checking of security policies for database-backed web applications. The tool checks a combination of access control and information flow policies,...
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White Papers
UsenetDHT: A Low-Overhead Design for Usenet
March 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Usenet is a popular distributed messaging and file sharing service: servers in Usenet flood articles over an overlay network to fully replicate articles across all servers. However, replication of...
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White Papers
Nysiad: Practical Protocol Transformation to Tolerate Byzantine Failures
March 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The paper presents and evaluates Nysiad, a system that implements a new technique for transforming a scalable distributed system or network protocol tolerant only of crash failures into one that...
Provided by USENIX Association
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Whitepapers
Building a 100K Log/sec Logging Infrastructure
November 5, 2012, 12:00am PST
A look at the logging infrastructure that one division of Intuit built that included the requirement to handle 100K lines of logs per second with the logs being delivered to several destinations...
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Whitepapers
Vayu: Learning to control the cloud
July 5, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors describe Vayu, a system for managing cloud applications from the performance, availability and capacity standpoints. The system automatically learns the behavior of...
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Whitepapers
Progress of DNS Security Deployment in the Federal Government
November 5, 2012, 12:00am PST
In 2008, the US Federal government mandated that all Federal Executive Branch owned DNS zones must deploy DNSSEC. Initial deployments lagged and often error prone, and in response, the DNSSEC...
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Whitepapers
HSS: A Simple File Storage System for Web Applications
November 5, 2012, 12:00am PST
AOL Technologies has created a scalable object store for web applications. The goal of the object store was to eliminate the creation of a separate storage system for every application user...
Provided by USENIX
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White Papers
Sora: High Performance Software Radio Using General Purpose Multi-Core Processors
March 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents Sora, a fully programmable software radio platform on commodity PC architectures. Sora combines the performance and fidelity of hardware SDR platforms with the programmability...
Provided by USENIX Association
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White Papers
Beyond Pilots: Keeping Rural Wireless Networks Alive
March 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Very few computer systems that have been deployed in rural developing regions manage to stay operationally sustainable over the long term; most systems do not go beyond the pilot phase. The...
Provided by USENIX Association
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White Papers
Physical-Layer Identification of RFID Devices
June 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors per form the first comprehensive study of physical-layer identification of RFID transponders. They propose several techniques for the extraction of RFID physical-layer...
Provided by USENIX Association
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White Papers
Unpacking Virtualization Obfuscators
May 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Nearly every malware sample is sheathed in an executable protection which must be removed before static analyzes can proceed. Existing research has studied automatically unpacking certain...
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White Papers
Protection Strategies for Direct Access to Virtualized I/O Devices
April 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Commodity virtual machine monitors forbid direct access to I/O devices by untrusted guest operating systems in order to provide protection and sharing. However, both I/O Memory Management Units...
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White Papers
Bridging the Gap Between Software and Hardware Techniques for I/O Virtualization
June 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The paravirtualized I/O driver domain model, used in Xen, provides several advantages including device driver isolation in a safe execution environment, support for guest VM transparent services...
Provided by USENIX Association
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Webcasts
Revisiting Storage for Smartphones
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Conventional wisdom holds that storage is not a big contributor to application performance on mobile devices. In this webcast, the presenters present evidence that storage performance does indeed...
Provided by USENIX
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Webcasts
Erasure Coding in Windows Azure Storage
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Windows Azure Storage (WAS) is a cloud storage system that provides customers the ability to store seemingly limitless amounts of data for any duration of time. In this webcast, the presenters...
Provided by USENIX
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Webcasts
netmap: A Novel Framework for Fast Packet I/O
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Many applications (routers, traffic monitors, firewalls, etc.) need to send and receive packets at line rate even on very fast links. In this webcast, the presenter presents netmap, a novel...
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White Papers
Reverse-Engineering a Cryptographic RFID Tag
June 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The security of embedded devices often relies on the secrecy of proprietary cryptographic algorithms. These algorithms and their weaknesses are frequently disclosed through reverse-engineering...
Provided by USENIX Association
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White Papers
A Dollar From 15 Cents: Cross-Platform Management for Internet Services
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As Internet services become ubiquitous, the selection and management of diverse server platforms now affects the bottom line of almost every firm in every industry. Ideally, such cross-platform...
Provided by USENIX Association
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Whitepapers
HSS: A Simple File Storage System for Web Applications
November 5, 2012, 12:00am PST
AOL Technologies has created a scalable object store for web applications. The goal of the object store was to eliminate the creation of a separate storage system for every application user...
Provided by USENIX
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Whitepapers
Progress of DNS Security Deployment in the Federal Government
November 5, 2012, 12:00am PST
In 2008, the US Federal government mandated that all Federal Executive Branch owned DNS zones must deploy DNSSEC. Initial deployments lagged and often error prone, and in response, the DNSSEC...
Provided by USENIX
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Whitepapers
Vayu: Learning to control the cloud
July 5, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors describe Vayu, a system for managing cloud applications from the performance, availability and capacity standpoints. The system automatically learns the behavior of...
Provided by USENIX
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Whitepapers
Building a 100K Log/sec Logging Infrastructure
November 5, 2012, 12:00am PST
A look at the logging infrastructure that one division of Intuit built that included the requirement to handle 100K lines of logs per second with the logs being delivered to several destinations...
Provided by USENIX
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Whitepapers
DIADS: Addressing the "My-Problem-or-Yours" Syndrome With Integrated SAN and Database Diagnosis
January 27, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors present DIADS, an integrated DIAgnosis tool for Databases and Storage Area Networks (SANs). Existing diagnosis tools in this domain have a database-only or SAN-only focus. DIADS is a...
Provided by USENIX Association
-
Webcasts
netmap: A Novel Framework for Fast Packet I/O
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Many applications (routers, traffic monitors, firewalls, etc.) need to send and receive packets at line rate even on very fast links. In this webcast, the presenter presents netmap, a novel...
Provided by USENIX
-
Webcasts
Erasure Coding in Windows Azure Storage
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Windows Azure Storage (WAS) is a cloud storage system that provides customers the ability to store seemingly limitless amounts of data for any duration of time. In this webcast, the presenters...
Provided by USENIX
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Webcasts
Revisiting Storage for Smartphones
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
Conventional wisdom holds that storage is not a big contributor to application performance on mobile devices. In this webcast, the presenters present evidence that storage performance does indeed...
Provided by USENIX
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White Papers
Protection Strategies for Direct Access to Virtualized I/O Devices
April 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Commodity virtual machine monitors forbid direct access to I/O devices by untrusted guest operating systems in order to provide protection and sharing. However, both I/O Memory Management Units...
Provided by USENIX Association
-
White Papers
Unpacking Virtualization Obfuscators
May 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Nearly every malware sample is sheathed in an executable protection which must be removed before static analyzes can proceed. Existing research has studied automatically unpacking certain...
Provided by USENIX Association
-
White Papers
Physical-Layer Identification of RFID Devices
June 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors per form the first comprehensive study of physical-layer identification of RFID transponders. They propose several techniques for the extraction of RFID physical-layer...
Provided by USENIX Association
-
White Papers
Beyond Pilots: Keeping Rural Wireless Networks Alive
March 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Very few computer systems that have been deployed in rural developing regions manage to stay operationally sustainable over the long term; most systems do not go beyond the pilot phase. The...
Provided by USENIX Association
-
White Papers
Sora: High Performance Software Radio Using General Purpose Multi-Core Processors
March 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents Sora, a fully programmable software radio platform on commodity PC architectures. Sora combines the performance and fidelity of hardware SDR platforms with the programmability...
Provided by USENIX Association
-
White Papers
Nysiad: Practical Protocol Transformation to Tolerate Byzantine Failures
March 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The paper presents and evaluates Nysiad, a system that implements a new technique for transforming a scalable distributed system or network protocol tolerant only of crash failures into one that...
Provided by USENIX Association
-
White Papers
UsenetDHT: A Low-Overhead Design for Usenet
March 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Usenet is a popular distributed messaging and file sharing service: servers in Usenet flood articles over an overlay network to fully replicate articles across all servers. However, replication of...
Provided by USENIX Association
-
White Papers
Static Checking of Dynamically-Varying Security Policies in Database-Backed Applications
September 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a system for sound static checking of security policies for database-backed web applications. The tool checks a combination of access control and information flow policies,...
Provided by USENIX Association
-
White Papers
Adapting Software Fault Isolation to Contemporary CPU Architectures
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Software Fault Isolation (SFI) is an effective approach to sandboxing binary code of questionable provenance, an interesting use case for native plugins in a Web browser. The authors present...
Provided by USENIX Association
-
White Papers
PrETP: Privacy-Preserving Electronic Toll Pricing
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Current Electronic Toll Pricing (ETP) implementations rely on on-board units sending fine-grained location data to the service provider. The authors present PrETP, a privacy-preserving ETP system...
Provided by USENIX Association
-
White Papers
Building a More Secure Web Browser
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The modern Web browser has evolved from a relatively simple client application designed to display static data into a complex networked operating system tasked with managing many facets of online...
Provided by USENIX Association
-
White Papers
Effective and Efficient Malware Detection at the End Host
June 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Malware is one of the most serious security threats on the Internet today. In fact, most Internet problems such as spam e-mails and denial of service attacks have malware as their underlying...
Provided by USENIX Association
-
White Papers
Measurement and Classification of Humans and Bots in Internet Chat
June 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The abuse of chat services by automated programs, known as chat bots, poses a serious threat to Internet users. Chat bots target popular chat networks to distribute spam and malware. This paper,...
Provided by USENIX Association
-
White Papers
A Dollar From 15 Cents: Cross-Platform Management for Internet Services
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As Internet services become ubiquitous, the selection and management of diverse server platforms now affects the bottom line of almost every firm in every industry. Ideally, such cross-platform...
Provided by USENIX Association
-
White Papers
Reverse-Engineering a Cryptographic RFID Tag
June 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The security of embedded devices often relies on the secrecy of proprietary cryptographic algorithms. These algorithms and their weaknesses are frequently disclosed through reverse-engineering...
Provided by USENIX Association
-
White Papers
Bridging the Gap Between Software and Hardware Techniques for I/O Virtualization
June 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The paravirtualized I/O driver domain model, used in Xen, provides several advantages including device driver isolation in a safe execution environment, support for guest VM transparent services...
Provided by USENIX Association
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