Month: August 2016

A team from the UW CSE Security Lab has been intensively studying how web tracking has evolved over time. The team, including co-first authors Adam Lerner and Anna Kornfeld Simpson along with faculty members Franzi Roesner and Yoshi Kohno, presented their work at the USENIX Security Symposium a couple of weeks ago. Their research has been picked up by the popular press, including USA Today and TechCrunch, as well as IEEE Spectrum and radio and TV networks. Read their paper here or check out the project web page here here.

DARPA’s Information Science and Technology (ISAT) study group brings together roughly 30 of the top minds in academia and industry. Their task is to identify and explore emerging inflection points broadly related to computing in the context of national security. Members are not just leaders in their own fields, but leaders in all of information science and technology. UW CSE has an amazingly strong presence at ISAT, including Security Lab Professor Franzi Roesner. Read the CSE News article here.

Adam Lerner gave a great and well-received talk today at the USENIX Security Symposium. The USENIX Security Symposium is one of the leading publication venues in the computer security research field. Adam presented a paper, co-authored with Anna Kornfeld Simpson (co-student first author) and faculty members Franzi Roesner and Yoshi Kohno, titled “Internet Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Trackers: An Archaeological Study of Web Tracking from 1996 to 2016”. This research used the Wayback Machine‘s archive of the Internet to study the evolution of web tracking over time. Read the paper here and check out the associated web page here.

Anna Kornfeld Simpson presented at tonight’s WIPs session at USENIX Security. Her paper on an archealogical study of web tracking from 1996-2016, with Adam Lerner, Franzi Roesner, and Yoshi Kohno, will be presented tomorrow. For tonight’s talk, Anna presented some additional results about the evolution of the web over time.