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I’ve put added recent publications to the research page including links to the PDFs. Shuo presented our paper on Alhambra at WWW, Cho presented our paper on MegaD infiltration at LEET, and Kurt will be presenting unFriendly at PETS this summer which is a project that examines multi-party privacy on Facebook. If we are lucky, I’ll be presenting a Twitter-related paper next Fall.

Short paper summaries:

Alhambra – a browser-based replay system to test client side security policies. Using replay and comparison metrics we can quickly and automatically determine if a particular browser security policy breaks web applications.

MegaD infiltration – Developed milkers to continually monitor and participate (in a safe manner) in the command and control network used by the MegaD spamming botnet. We present our analysis of four months of C&C infiltration.

unFriendly – Examined multi-party privacy on Facebook. Multi-party privacy conflicts exist when one user has more restrictive privacy settings than their friend and using simple data mining techniques, we are able to infer private profile attributes by examining the conflicts that exist for users on Facebook.