Dawn Song

Assistant Professor

Research Areas

• Security (SEC)

Teaching Schedule (Spring 2008)

• CS 161. Computer Security, M W 2:30-4:00P, 306 Soda

Selected Publications

• D. Brumley, J. Caballero, Z. Liang, J. Newsome, and D. Song, "Best Paper Award: Towards automatic discovery of deviations in binary implementations with applications to error detection and fingerprint generation," in Proc. 16th USENIX Security Symp., Berkeley, CA: USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association, 2007, pp. 213-228.
• J. Tucek, J. Newsome, S. Lu, C. Huang, S. Xanthos, D. Brumley, Y. Zhou, and D. Song, "Sweeper: A lightweight end-to-end system for defending against fast worms," ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 115-128, June 2007.
• E. Shi, J. Bethencourt, H. T. H. Chan, D. Song, and A. Perrig, "Multi-dimensional range query over encrypted data," in Proc. 2007 IEEE Symp. on Security and Privacy (S&P 2007), Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 2007, pp. 350-364.
• D. Brumley, T. Chiueh, R. Johnson, H. Lin, and D. Song, "Efficient and accurate detection of integer-based attacks," in Proc. 14th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symp. (NDSS 2007), Reston, VA: The Internet Society, 2007.
• S. Venkataraman, J. Caballero, P. Poosankam, M. G. Kang, and D. Song, "FiG: Automatic fingerprint generation," in Proc. 14th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symp. (NDSS 2007), Reston, VA: The Internet Society, 2007.
• H. Chen, A. Perrig, B. Przydatek, and D. Song, "SIA: Secure Information Aggregation in sensor networks," Journal of Computer Security: Special Issue on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 69-102, Jan. 2007.
• S. Venkataraman, J. Caballero, D. Song, A. Blum, and J. Yates, "Black box anomaly detection: Is it Utopian?," in Proc. 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-V), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006, pp. 127-132.
• J. Newsome, D. Brumley, J. Franklin, and D. Song, "Replayer: Automatic protocol replay by binary analysis," in Proc. 13th ACM Conf. on Computer and Communications Security, A. Juels, R. N. Wright, and S. De Capitani di Vimercati, Eds., New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006, pp. 311-321.
• H. Chan, A. Perrig, and D. Song, "Secure hierarchical in-network aggregation in sensor networks," in Proc. 13th ACM Conf. on Computer and Communications Security, A. Juels, R. N. Wright, and S. De Capitani di Vimercati, Eds., New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006, pp. 278-287.
• A. Yaar, A. Perrig, and D. Song, "StackPi: New packet marking and filtering mechanisms for DDoS and IP spoofing defense," IEEE J. Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 24, no. 10, pp. 1853-1863, Oct. 2006.
• D. Gao, M. K. Reiter, and D. Song, "Behavioral distance for intrusion detection," in Proc. 8th Intl. Symp. on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2005), Revised Papers, A. Valdez and D. Zamboni, Eds., Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Vol. 3858, Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2006, pp. 63-81.
• J. Newsome, B. Karp, and D. Song, "Paragraph: Thwarting signature learning by training maliciously," in Proc. 9th Intl. Symp. on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2006), D. Zamboni and C. Kruegel, Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4219, Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2006, pp. 81-105.
• D. Gao, M. K. Reiter, and D. Song, "Behavioral distance measurement using hidden Markov models," in Proc. 9th Intl. Symp. on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2006), D. Zamboni and C. Kruegel, Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4219, Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2006, pp. 19-40.
• D. Brumley and D. Song, "Towards attack-agnostic defenses," in Proc. 1st USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec '06), Berkeley, CA: USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association, 2006, pp. 57-62.
• D. Brumley, J. Newsome, D. Song, H. Wang, and S. Jha, "Towards automatic generation of vulnerability-based signatures," in Proc. 2006 IEEE Symp. on Security and Privacy (S&P 2006), Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 2006, pp. 15 pp..
• J. Bethencourt, D. Song, and B. Waters, "New constructions and practical applications for private stream searching," in Proc. 2006 IEEE Symp. on Security and Privacy (S&P 2006), Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 2006, pp. 6 pp..
• D. Brumley, L. H. Liu, P. Poosankam, and D. Song, "Design space and analysis of worm defense strategies," in Proc. 2006 ACM Symp. on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2006), F. C. Lin, D. T. Lee, B. S. Lin, S. Shieh, and S. Jajodia, Eds., New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006, pp. 125-137.
• J. Newsome, D. Brumley, and D. Song, "Vulnerability-specific execution filtering for exploit prevention on commodity software," in Proc. 13th Annual Network and Distributed Systems Security Symp. (NDSS 2006), Reston, VA: The Internet Society, 2006, pp. 14 pp..
• L. Kissner and D. Song, "Privacy-preserving set operations," in Advances in Cryptology: Proc. 25th Annual Intl. Cryptology Conf. (CRYPTO 2005), V. Shoup, Ed., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3621, Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2005, pp. 241-257.
• M. Christodorescu, S. Jha, S. Seshia, D. Song, and R. E. Bryant, "Semantics-aware malware detection," in Proc. 2005 IEEE Symp. on Security and Privacy (S&P 2005), Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 2005, pp. 32-46.