CS557 Secure Systems

Sotiris Ioannidis

Fall 2008

Presentation List

Topic

Date

Paper

Presenters

Code Injection

29/9

StackGuard: Automatic Adaptive Detection and Prevention of Buffer-Overflow Attacks

Giannis Makrydakis ppt

On the Effectiveness of Address-Space Randomization

Vasilis Lekakis ppt

Race Conditions

1/10

TOCTTOU Vulnerabilities in UNIX-Style File Systems: An Anatomical Study

Ilias Tsompanidis pdf

Portably Solving File TOCTTOU Races with Hardness Amplification

Vasilis Lekakis pdf

Botnet Detection

6/10

Wide Scale Botnet Detection and Characterization

Constantinos Koukos pdf

BotHunter: Detecting Malware Infection Through IDS-Driven Dialog Correlation

Lazaros Koromilas pdf

Botnet Detection

8/10

A Multifaceted Approach to Understanding the Botnet Phenomenon

Giannis Makrydakis ppt

BotMiner: Clustering Analysis of Network Traffic for Protocol- and Structure-Independent Botnet Detection

Petros Politopoulos ppt

Malware

13/10

Panaroma: Capturing System-wide Information Flow for Malware Detection and Analysis

Vasilis Lekakis pdf

TightLip: Keeping Applications from Spilling the Beans

Antonis Krithinakis pptx

Malware

15/10

Exploring Multiple Execution Paths for Malware Analysis

Artemis Papakostantinou pptx

BitScope: Automatically Dissecting Malicious Binaries

Ourania Smyrnaki ppt

Malware

20/10

A Look In the Mirror: Attacks on Package Managers

Fontas Fafoutis MISSING

BootJacker: Compromising Computers using Forced Restarts

Petros Politopoulos ppt

Code Injection

22/10

Code Injection Attacks on Harvard-Architecture Devices

Giwrgos Chinis ppt

When Good Instructions Go Bad: Generalizing Return-Oriented Programming to RISC

Lazaros Koromilas pdf

WiFi

27/10

Security Analysis and Improvements for IEEE802.11i

Antonis Papadogiannakis ppt

Proximity breeds Danger: Emerging Threats in Metro-area Wireless Networks

Constantinos Koukos ppt

Traceback

29/10

Network Support for IP Traceback

Giannis Makrydakis ppt

Cancelled

Traceback & DDoS

3/11

Advanced and Authenticated Marking Schemes for IP Traceback

Ourania Smyrnaki ppt

SIFF: A Stateless Internet Flow Filter to Mitigate DDoS Flooding Attacks

V. Flouris pdf

Traceback

5/11

ClearShot: Eavesdropping Keyboard Input from Video

Artemhs Papakwstantinou pptx

Compromising Reflections -or- How to Read LCD Monitors Around the Corner

Constantinos Koukos pdf

Web Hacks

10/11

All Your iFRAMEs Point to Us

Antonis Papadogiannakis ppt

Securing Frame Communication in Browsers

Ilias Tsompanidis pdf

Botnets And M. Payloads

12/11

Measurement and Classification of Humans and Bots in Internet Chat

Antonis Krithinakis ppt

To Catch a Predator: A Natural Language Approach for Eliciting Malicious Payloads

V. Flouris pdf

CloudAV and CSRF

19/11

CloudAV: N-Version Antivirus in the Network Cloud

Lazaros Koromilas pdf

Robust Defenses for Cross-Site Request Forgery

Giwrgos Chinis ppt

Web Security

24/11

SOMA: Mutual Approval for Included Content in Web Pages

V. Flouris pdf

OMash: Enabling Secure Web Mashups via Object Abstractions

Constantinos Koukos pdf

Botnets And Spam

26/11

Characterizing Botnets from Email Spam Records

Artemis Papakwstantinou pptx

Peeking into Spammer Behavior from a Unique Vantage Point

Ourania Smyrnaki ppt

Worms and Spam

1/12

Catching Instant Messaging Worms with Change-Point Detection Techniques

Antwnis Papadogiannakis ppt

Exploiting Machine Learning to Subvert Your Spam Filter

Petros Politopoulos ppt

Worms and Botnets

3/12

Measurements and Mitigation of Peer-to-Peer-based Botnets: A Case Study on Storm Worm

Antonis Krithinakis pptx

The Heisenbot Uncertainty Problem: Challenges in Separating Bots from Chaff

Vasilhs Flouris pdf

Rootkits

8/12

Guest-Transparent Prevention of Kernel Rootkits with VMM-based Memory Shadowing

Giannis Makrydakis pdf

Countering Persistent Kernel Rootkits Through Systematic Hook Discovery

Ilias Tsompanidis pdf

SPAM

11/12

Spamscatter: Characterizing Internet Scam Hosting Infrastructure

Artemis Papakwstantinou pptx

On the Spam Campaign Trail

Kostas Koukos pdf


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