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USS
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Chipping Away at Censorship Firewalls with User-Generated Content
Oppressive regimes and even democratic governments restrict Internet access. Existing anti-censorship systems often require users to connect through proxies, but these systems are...
Sam Burnett, Nick Feamster, Santosh Vempala
USS
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Re: CAPTCHAs-Understanding CAPTCHA-Solving Services in an Economic Context
Reverse Turing tests, or CAPTCHAs, have become an ubiquitous defense used to protect open Web resources from being exploited at scale. An effective CAPTCHA resists existing mechan...
Marti Motoyama, Kirill Levchenko, Chris Kanich, Da...
USS
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Cling: A Memory Allocator to Mitigate Dangling Pointers
Use-after-free vulnerabilities exploiting so-called dangling pointers to deallocated objects are just as dangerous as buffer overflows: they may enable arbitrary code execution. U...
Periklis Akritidis
USS
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Realization of RF Distance Bounding
One of the main obstacles for the wider deployment of radio (RF) distance bounding is the lack of platforms that implement these protocols. We address this problem and we build a ...
Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Srdjan Capkun
USS
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Searching the Searchers with SearchAudit
Search engines not only assist normal users, but also provide information that hackers and other malicious entities can exploit in their nefarious activities. With carefully craft...
John P. John, Fang Yu, Yinglian Xie, Martín...
USS
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Idle Port Scanning and Non-interference Analysis of Network Protocol Stacks Using Model Checking
Idle port scanning uses side-channel attacks to bounce scans off of a "zombie" host to stealthily scan a victim IP address and determine if a port is open or closed, or ...
Roya Ensafi, Jong Chun Park, Deepak Kapur, Jedidia...
USS
2010
13 years 8 months ago
An Analysis of Private Browsing Modes in Modern Browsers
We study the security and privacy of private browsing modes recently added to all major browsers. We first propose a clean definition of the goals of private browsing and survey i...
Gaurav Aggarwal, Elie Bursztein, Collin Jackson, D...
USS
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for UNIX
Capsicum is a lightweight operating system capability and sandbox framework planned for inclusion in FreeBSD 9. Capsicum extends, rather than replaces, UNIX APIs, providing new ke...
Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Anderson, Ben Laurie...
SRDS
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Swift Algorithms for Repeated Consensus
We introduce the notion of a swift algorithm. Informally, an algorithm that solves the repeated consensus is swift if, in a partial synchronous run of this algorithm, eventually no...
Fatemeh Borran, Martin Hutle, Nuno Santos, Andr&ea...
SRDS
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Shedding Light on Enterprise Network Failures Using Spotlight
Abstract--Fault localization in enterprise networks is extremely challenging. A recent approach called Sherlock makes some headway into this problem by using an inference algorithm...
Dipu John, Pawan Prakash, Ramana Rao Kompella, Ran...