Category Archives: research

more papers!

Two more publications: The Gazelle paper is going to be at USENIX Security and a short paper at Web 2.0 Security and Privacy on plugin security. See my research page for more information! PDFs should be online as soon as … Continue reading

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unFriendly – looking at personal information

SigMIL participated in this year’s Engineering Open House with a project called unFriendly. The goal was originally to see if we could infer, with some degree of success, information about people on Facebook based on their friends’ profiles (we can). … Continue reading

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Fall 2008

Fall 08 started a quick and is already half over. I’ve been continuing my project from Microsoft Research, working with a security group there lead by Helen Wang and working on a couple other security projects at school. I’m almost … Continue reading

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Illinois Malicious Processor Paper

The Illinois Malicious Processor (IMP) project I worked on was written up by InfoWorld! Its a great read: Read it here – That is in addition to it being published at LEET and being awarded a Best Paper Award! The … Continue reading

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Secure web browsing with the OP web browser

Sam, Shuo and I have had our paper accepted at the 2008 Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) conference this spring. Here’s the PDF. It was also written up in the news! “Secure web browsing with the OP web browser”, … Continue reading

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Summer 2008 – Seattle and research

I’m going to Microsoft Research for the summer after I present at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. I’ll be out in Redmond, WA at the end of May through August. I’m going to be doing some pretty interesting … Continue reading

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Fall 2007 school and stuff

This fall is a little bit different than most semesters – no class. I decided that I could fill my time easily enough with research that I didn’t need any busy work from courses. I’m currently working on web related … Continue reading

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Spring 2007 almost over

This semester produced a couple interesting things. First, a project which tries to detect malware (particularly rootkits) and runs outside the OS, in a virtual machine. Second, another paper written by me, this time on botnets and command and control … Continue reading

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Summer 2006 ends

Summer 2006 was a good summer, definitely a good time, good job, and fun place. I worked in Berkeley, CA and lived right down the street from ICIR where I worked. Berkeley pretty much had everything I wanted and if … Continue reading

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