{"595338":{"#nid":"595338","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Proposal by Charles Lever","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETitle: Temporal Insights From Cross-Platform Internet Abuse at Scale\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nChaz Lever\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPh.D. student\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Computer Science\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCollege of Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDate: Thursday, August 31st, 2017\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTime: 10 AM - 12 PM (ET)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nLocation: Klaus 3402\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommittee:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n------------------------\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDr. Emmanouil Antonakakis (Advisor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDr. Mustaque Ahamad (School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDr. Douglas Blough (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDr. Roberto Perdisci (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Georgia and School of Computer Science, Georgia Tech)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Fabian Monrose (Dept. of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAbstract\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n------------------------\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe security landscape is constantly evolving. Therefore, in order to build\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ebetter defenses, it is critical to evaluate emerging and existing threats to\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ebetter understand how and where to prioritize future security efforts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIdeally, such evaluation of threats should be based on real world data, but\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ethis introduces a number of challenges. For example, real world data must be\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ecollected, parsed, and cleaned before any sort of analysis can proceed.\u0026nbsp; These\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Etasks are frequently complicated as the scale of that data grows\u0026mdash;--requiring\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Econsiderable work in order to derive useful insights.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe work in this thesis provides empirical analysis of numerous existing or\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eemerging threats using real world data at scale. As such, it provides the first\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ereal world study on the prevalence of mobile malware by studying network\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Etraffic from almost 25M devices\u0026mdash;--showing that security practices on popular\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Emobile device platforms appear to be fairly effective. In addition, it studies\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ethe unintended security consequences of hundreds of millions of domain\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eexpirations over several years and shows that malware is increasingly using\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eexpired domains for abuse\u0026mdash;--as well as providing a lightweight algorithm for\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Edetecting such expirations. Next, it studies the evolution of 27M malware\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Esamples collected over almost half a decade\u0026mdash;--confirming some existing findings\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eat scale and identifying several shortcomings of the current state of the art.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFinally, it studies nearly 35 consumer oriented IoT devices to provide a\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Einsights into trends of insecurity across devices---linking these findings to\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Egrowth trends from real world network traffic. This study suggests that many of\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ethe problems related to IoT devices are due to a failure to learn from decades\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eof prior security experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Temporal Insights From Cross-Platform Internet Abuse at Scale"}],"uid":"27707","created_gmt":"2017-08-31 12:31:16","changed_gmt":"2017-08-31 12:31:16","author":"Tatianna Richardson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-08-31T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2017-08-31T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-08-31T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-08-31 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-08-31 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-08-31 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"102851","name":"Phd proposal"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}