Security and Privacy Research Lab
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
The paper titled deSEO: Combating Search-Result Poisoning was published last week at Usenix Security 2011. It describes how malware and viruses are spread through the poisoning of popular search keywords, and develops tools to help search engines fight the problem.
The paper was authored by John P. John and Arvind Krishnamurthy from UW, in collaboration with researchers at MSR, Silicon Valley.
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The UW-UCSD collaborative project on automotive security has just published their second paper entitled “Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces” at Usenix Security 2011. The results in this paper were previously presented before a National Academy of Sciences committee on automotive safety (3.13.2011).
On the UW side, this effort was led by Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, and Franziska Roesner (along with faculty member Yoshi Kohno). On the UCSD side, this effort was led by Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, and Danny Anderson (along with faculty members Hovav Shacham and Stefan Savage).
A video of the Usenix Security talk is online here.
In order to look their best at Defcon and Usenix Security, members of the UW CSE Security and Privacy Research Lab equipped themselves with t-shirts displaying the text of the waiver they were required to sign before testing their “analyzed automobile” on the runway at Blaine Airport.
We can confirm that no damage was done by the car at Blaine Airport. We are not so sure about the impact of these t-shirts at Defcon and Usenix Security.