Security Reading Group, Spring 2009

Held weekly on Thursday in Soda 606.
Food arrives at 11:45am, discussion starts at 12:00pm.

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Conference Proceedings. If you are presenting, feel free to choose any security-related paper from any conference. These are just some ideas to get you started: View previous semesters' schedule of talks:

Meeting Schedule

Date Presenter Topic Food
Thur
Jan 29		 Joel Weinberger Finding security vulnerabilities in web browsers through JavaScript heap inspection. Cynthia Sturton
Thur
Feb 5		 Erika Chin An Efficient Black-box Technique for Defeating Web Application Attacks, R. Sekar. NDSS 2009. Bonnie Zhu
Thur
Feb 12		 Ari Rabkin The Impact of Incentives on Notice and Take-down, Tyler Moore and Richard Clayton. Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2008. Matt Piotrowski
Thur
Feb 19		 Mark Winterrowd Pushback for Overlay Networks: Protecting against malicious Insiders, A. Stavrou, M. E. Locasto, A. D. Keromytis. Applied Cryptography and Network Security. 2008. Adrian Mettler
Thur
Feb 26		 Adrian Mettler Noncespaces: Using Randomization to Enforce Information Flow Tracking and Thwart Cross-site Scripting Attacks, Matthew Van Gundy and Hao Chen. NDSS. 2009. Matt Finifter
Thur
Mar 5		 Arel Cordero The Blind Stone Tablet: Outsourcing Durability to Untrusted Parties, Peter Williams and Radu Sion. NDSS 2009. Joel Weinberger
Thur
Mar 12		 Elaine Shi Predicate Privacy in Encryption Systems, Emily Shen, Elaine Shi, Brent Waters. Theory of Cryptography Conference 2009. Erika Chin
Thur
Mar 19		 Juan Caballero Prospex: Protocol Specification Extraction, Paolo Milani Comparetti, Gilbert Wondracek, Christopher Kruegel and Engrin Kirda. Oakland 2009.Cynthia Sturton
Thur
Mar 26
Spring Break
Thur
Apr 2		 Cynthia Sturton Wirelessly Pickpocketing a Mifare Classic Card, F. D. Garcia, et al. Oakland 2009. Arel Cordero
Thur
Apr 9		 Matt Piotrowski Native Client: A Sandbox for Portable, Untrusted x86 Native Code, B. Yee, et al. Oakland 2009. Cynthia Sturton
Thur
Apr 16		 Matt Finifter Secure Web Applications via Automatic Partitioning, S. Chong, et al. SOSP 2007. Paul Pearce
Thur
Apr 23		 Stephen McCamant Code Injection Attacks on Harvard-Architecture Devices, A. Francillon and C. Castelluccia. CCS 2008. Heng Yin
Thur
Apr 30		 Adrienne Felt Characterizing Insecure JavaScript Practices on the Web, Chuan Yue and Haining Wang. WWW 2009. Prateek Saxena
Thur
May 7		 Adam Barth Attacks on JavaScript Mashup Communication, Adam Barth, Collin Jackson, and William Li. W2SP 2009. Ari Rabkin
Thur
May 14		 Adrian Mettler Analyzing and Comparing the Protection Quality of Security Enhanced Operating Systems, H. Chen, N. Li, and Z. Mao. NDSS 2009 Cynthia Sturton