Internet Security Seminar
The Internet Security Seminar is a module based around reading and discussing recent computer security research. Each week we will discuss a research paper in the field of computer security. The aim of this module is to develop a deep understanding of current, state of the art, computer security research.
Each lecture, one student and the module organiser will present a research paper, and the student will write a short report. The final grade will be based on the quality of the presentation and report, as well as some continuous assignment questions based on questions about other students presentations.
The slides from the introduction lecture can be found here.
- Week 4: 28/1/13, 12:00, Matimbila Lyuba: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Internet Miscreants Franklin et al. CCS 06 Slides
- Week 4: 1/2/13, 12:00, Najwan Hudaihed: A Study of Android Application Security, William Enck, Damien Octeau, Patrick McDaniel, and Swarat Chaudhuri, USENIX Security 2011
- Week 5: 8/2/13, 12:00, James Walker: Insights from the Inside: A View of Botnet Management from Infiltration Chia Yuan Cho, Juan Caballero, Chris Grier, Vern Paxson, and Dawn Song, Usenix LEET 2010.
- Week 6: 14/2/13, 15:00, Room Arts R5, Said Al Riyami: Why Johnny Can't Pentest:
An Analysis of Black-box Web Vulnerability Scanners Adam Doupe, Marco Cova, and Giovanni Vigna Slides
- Week 7: 22/2/13, 12:00, Panagiotis Gialouris:
The Underground Economy of Fake Antivirus Software Brett Stone-Gross, Ryan Abman, Richard A. Kemmerer, Christopher Kruegel, Douglas G. Steigerwald, and Giovanni Vigna, Workshop on Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2011) Slides
- Week 8: 1/3/13, 12:00, Donald Mkpanam: Why Johnny Can't Browse in Peace: On the Uniqueness of Web Browsing History Patterns Lukasz Olejnik, Claude Castelluccia, Artur Janc, HotPETS2012 Slides
- Week 9: 4/3/13, 10:00, Alaa Hassan EVILSEED: A Guided Approach to Finding Malicious Web Pages Luca Invernizzi, Stefano Benvenuti, Paolo Milani, Marco Cova, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2012. Slides
- Week 9: Rajiv Ranjan Singh, 8/3/12, 12:00 Quantitative information flow as network flow capacity Stephen McCamant and Michael D. Ernst, Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation 2008. Slides
- Week 10: 11/3/13, 10:00, Binbin Hu: Firewall Configuration Errors Revisited Avishai Wool. Slides
- Week 10: Pierre Pavlides, 15/3/12 12:00: The Halting Problems of Network Stack Insecurity Len Sassaman, Meredith L. Patterson, Sergey Bratus, and Anna ShubinaUSENIX 2011. Slides
- Week 11: 22/3/13, 12:00, Evgeny Zhavoronkov: Gone in 360 Seconds: Hijacking with Hitag R. Verdult, F. D. Garcia, and J. Balasch, USENIX Security 2012. Slides