Prof. Sotiris Ioannidis, sotiris [at] ics.forth.gr

TA: Spyros Ligouras, ligouras [at] csd.uoc.gr

All students are kindly requested to subscribe to the mailing list and book a presentation as soon
as possible. Presentation schedule is as follows.
(Last update: November 27, 2009)

Legend: Green denotes paper presentation dates, Blue denotes project presentation dates

Topic	Date	Paper	Presenter
Secure Systems - What it's all about	21/9	– Introduction –	si
		– Introduction –	si
Memory Safety	23/9	Dynamic Test Generation to Find Integer Bugs in x86 Binary Linux Programs	gessiou
		NOZZLE: A Defense Against Heap-spraying Code Injection Attacks	petsas
Network Security	28/9	Detecting Spammers with SNARE: Spatio-temporal Network-level Automatic Reputation Engine	kondax
		Locating Prefix Hijackers using LOCK	alvanos
JavaScript Security	30/9	GATEKEEPER: Mostly Static Enforcement of Security and Reliability Policies for JavaScript Code	zarras
		Cross-Origin JavaScript Capability Leaks: Detection, Exploitation, and Defense ** will be rescheduled **	sfakiana
National Elections	5/10	– No class –
		– No class –
Attacks on Privacy I	7/10	Compromising Electromagnetic Emanations of Wired and Wireless Keyboards	fnikol
		Keystroke Eavesdropping on Multi-User Systems	tsikudis
Securing Web Apps	12/10	xBook: Redesigning Privacy Control in Social Networking Platforms	tzermias
		Nemesis: Preventing Authentication & Access Control Vulnerabilities in Web Applications	sebolani
Applied Crypto	14/10	Vanish: Increasing Data Privacy with Self-Destructing Data	kondax
		VPriv: Protecting Privacy in Location-Based Vehicular Services	sfakiana
Attacks on Privacy II	19/10	Compromising Anonymity Using Packet Spinning	sfakiana
		A Practical Congestion Attack on Tor Using Long Paths	petsas
Cloud Security I	21/10	Ripley: Automatically Securing Web 2.0 Applications Through Replicated Execution	zarras
		HAIL: A High-Availability and Integrity Layer for Cloud Storage	alvanos
Cloud Security II	26/10	Hey, You, Get Off My Cloud! Exploring Information Leakage in Third- Party Compute Clouds	gessiou
		Dynamic Provable Data Possession	fnikol
National Holiday	28/10	– No class –
		– No class –
Project-status Presentations I	2/11	IRILP: an Information Retrieval based method for Information Leak Prevention	gessiou
		Accelerating Privacy Preserving Operations using Graphics Hardware	tzermias
		Building clouds with web browsers	petsas
Project-status Presentations I	4/11	A Privacy-Preserving data analytics Primitive for a Multi-tenant Cloud Store	kondax
		Building a Secure Web Service	sebolani
		Internet Censorship Monitoring	sfakiana
Project-status Presentations I	9/11	CPU x86 processor emulator running on Google	zarras
		High-speed Intrusion Detection	tsikudis
		A secure peer-to-peer distributed system with a web front-end	alvanos & fnikol
Holiday - St. Minas	11/11	– No class –
		– No class –
Attacks	16/11	ClearShot: Eavesdropping Keyboard Input from Video	tsikoudis
		Compromising Reflections -or- How to Read LCD Monitors Around the Corner	sebolani
Malware	18/11	Exploring Multiple Execution Paths for Malware Analysis	kondax
		BitScope: Automatically Dissecting Malicious Binaries	petsas
Rootkits	23/11	Guest-Transparent Prevention of Kernel Rootkits with VMM-based Memory Shadowing	fnikol
		Countering Persistent Kernel Rootkits Through Systematic Hook Discovery	tzermias
Bots	25/11	BotHunter: Detecting Malware Infection Through IDS-Driven Dialog Correlation	alvanos
		BotMiner: Clustering Analysis of Network Traffic for Protocol- and Structure-Independent Botnet Detection	tzermias
SPAM	30/11	Spamscatter: Characterizing Internet Scam Hosting Infrastructure	zarras
		On the Spam Campaign Trail	sebolani
		Cross-Origin JavaScript Capability Leaks: Detection, Exploitation, and Defense (rescheduled)	sfakiana
Phishing	2/12	Modeling and Preventing Phishing Attacks	tsikoudis
		Designing and Conducting Phishing Experiments	gessiou
Project-status Presentations II	7/12	Building clouds with web browsers	petsas
Project-status Presentations II	9/12	A Privacy-Preserving data analytics Primitive for a Multi-tenant Cloud Store	kondax
		Accelerating Privacy Preserving Operations using Graphics Hardware	tzermias
Project-status Presentations II	14/12	A secure peer-to-peer distributed system with a web front-end	alvanos & fnikol
		High-speed Intrusion Detection	tsikudis
Project-status Presentations II	16/12	IRILP: an Information Retrieval based method for Information Leak Prevention	gessiou
		Building a Secure Web Service	sebolani
		CPU processor emulator running on Google	zarras