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Chrome extensions and security

Posted on October 2011 by admin

Adrienne wrote a blog post about some of her recent work analyzing Google Chrome extensions for security related bugs. It’s a nice read and illuminates mistakes made by a surprisingly large number of extension developers (27 / 100 extensions leak … Continue reading →

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paper at IMC 2011

Posted on September 2011 by admin

This year we have a paper studying the activity of suspended users on Twitter, which will appear at IMC in November. The title is “Suspended Accounts In Retrospect: An Analysis of Twitter Spam“, and the paper presents a unique perspective … Continue reading →

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Papers at 2011 IEEE Symp. on S&P

Posted on May 2011 by admin

We had two papers at Oakland this year, and I’ve put the PDFs up online. Kirill and Kurt  presented on Tuesday afternoon (schedule) NYT Article on the “Click Trajectories” work: http://nyti.ms/j6sf5c “Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain”, … Continue reading →

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presenting at CCS Tuesday

Posted on October 2010 by admin

I’m going to be at CCS 2010 in Chicago this week presenting @spam: The Underground on 140 Characters or Less. My presentation is the 3rd talk of the conference in the security session (on the first day).

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Illinois email going away!

Posted on September 2010 by admin

grier@uiuc.edu and grier@illinois.edu are going to stop working this Friday! CITES is officially done forwarding my email. Use my new ones @berkeley.edu, or better yet: grier@imchris.org!

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