Date | Leader | Assistant | Topic | Focus Paper |
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Thursday, 30 August | Adrienne Felt | Pieter Hooimeijer | Mashups | Helen Wang, Xiaofeng Fan, Jon Howell, Collin Jackson. Protection and Communication Abstractions for Web Browsers in MashupOS. SOSP 2007. |
Tuesday, 4 September | Yan Huang | Sudeep Ghosh | Isolation | Shuo Chen, David Ross, and Yi-Min Wang. An Analysis of Browser Domain-Isolation Bugs and A Light-Weight Transparent Defense Mechanism. ACM CCS 2007. |
Thursday, 6 September | Pieter Hooimeijer | Ray Buse, Sang-Min Park | Vulnerability Analysis | Gary Wassermann and Zhendong Su. Sound and Precise Analysis of Web Applications for Injection Vulnerabilities. PLDI 2007 |
Tuesday, 11 September | Krasimira Kapitanova | Isabelle Stanton | Phishing | Ian Fette, Norman Sadeh, Anthony Tomasic. Learning to Detect Phishing Emails . WWW 2007. |
Thursday, 13 September | Ray Buse | Duane Merrill | Static Analysis | Benjamin Livshits and Monica S. Lam. Finding Security Vulnerabilities in Java Applications with Static Analysis. USENIX Security 2005. |
Tuesday, 18 September | Blake Sutton | Kevin Binswanger | Detecting Malicious Content | Alexander Moshchuk, Tanya Bragin, Damien Deville, Steven D. Gribble, and Henry M. Levy. SpyProxy: Execution-based Detection of Malicious Web Content. USENIX Security 2007. |
Thursday, 20 September | Isabelle Stanton | Krasimira Kapitanova | De-Anonymizing | Lars Backstrom, Cynthia Dwork, Jon Kleinberg. Wherefore Art Thou R3579X? Anonymized Social Networks, Hidden Patterns, and Structural Steganography. WWW 2007. |
Tuesday, 25 September | Sang-Min Park | Karsten Nohl | Authorization Languages | Moritz Becker, Cedric Fournet, Andrew Gordon. Design and Semantics of a Decentralized Authorization Language. Computer Security Foundations Symposium 2007. [SecPAL Page] |
Thursday, 27 September | Chris Sosa | Blake Sutton | Covert Data | Arati Baliga, Joe Kilian and Liviu Iftode. A Web Based Covert File System. HotOS 2007. |
Tuesday, 2 October | Duane Merrill | Hong Pham | Search Privacy | Yabo Xu, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Ke Wang. Privacy-Enhancing Personalized Web Search. WWW 2007. |
Thursday, 4 October | Project Idea Presentations | |||
Tuesday, 9 October | Reading Day (No Class) | |||
Thursday, 11 October | Hong Pham | Adrienne Felt | Information Leaks | Andrew Bortz, Dan Boneh, Palash Nandy. Exposing Private Information by Timing Web Applications. WWW 2007. |
Tuesday, 16 October | Project Proposals Due (beginning of class) | |||
Tuesday, 16 October | Sudeep Ghosh | Chris Sosa | Tainting | Wei Xu, Sandeep Bhatkar, and R. Sekar. Taint-Enhanced Policy Enforcement: A Practical Approach to Defeat a Wide Range of Attacks. 15th USENIX Security Symposium, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 2006. |
Thursday, 18 October | Kevin Binswanger | Yan Huang | Blog Spam | Gilad Mishne, David Carmel, Ronny Lempel. Blocking Blog Spam with Language Model Disagreement. AIRWeb 2005. |
Tuesday, 23 October | Steve Baker | Steganalysis | Y. Wang and P. Moulin. Optimized Feature Extraction for Learning-Based Image Steganalysis. IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 2, No. 1, March 2007. | |
Thursday, 25 October | Working meeting for debate group preparation | |||
Tuesday, 30 October | No Meeting (ACM CCS) | |||
Thursday, 1 November | No Meeting (ACM CCS) | |||
Tuesday, 6 November | Googlization Debate | |||
Thursday, 8 November | Network Neutrality Debate | |||
Tuesday, 13 November | Guest: Douglas Szajda, University of Richmond | Securing Distributed Computations | ||
Thursday, 15 November | Guest: Lorenzo Cavallaro, Universita degli Studi di Milano | Diversity Defenses | Danilo Bruschi, Lorenzo Cavallaro, Andrea Lanzi. Diversified Process Replicae for Defeating Memory Error Exploits. WIA 2007. | |
Tuesday, 20 November | Guest: Jon McCune, CMU | Minimal TCB Code Execution | Jonathan M. McCune, Bryan Parno, Adrian Perrig, Michael K. Reiter, and Arvind Seshadri. Minimal TCB Code Execution (Extended Abstract). IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2007. | |
Thursday, 22 November | Thanksgiving Holiday (No Class) | |||
Thursday, 29 November | Project Presentations (Pieter Hooimeijer, Isabelle Stanton, Duane Merrill) | |||
Tuesday, 4 December | Project Presentations (Hong Pham, Blake Sutton/Chris Sosa, Kevin Binswanger, Sudeep Ghosh, Adrienne Felt) | |||
Thursday, 6 December | Project Presentations (Steven Baker, Krasimira Kapitanova, Yan Huang, Ray Buse, Sang-Min Park) | |||
Monday, 10 December | Project Reports Due (11:59pm) |