Media Coverage

Zakir Durumeric on "ZMap: Fast Internet-wide Scanning and Its Security Applications"

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• ZMap: Scanning the Entire Internet in an Hour (WashingtonPost.com, 8.18.13)

Kevin Springborn on "Impression Fraud in On-line Advertising via Pay-Per-View Networks"

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• Advertisers Waste Over 180 Million a Year to Reach Robots (Examiner.com, 8.11.13)
• How Pay-per-view Networks Cost Advertisers $180 Million a Year in Impression Fraud (MarketingLand.com, 8.13.13)
• AOLs New Video Audience May Consist Largely of Robots (BusinessWeek.com, 8.16.13)

Tielei Wang on "Jekyll on iOS: When Benign Apps Become Evil"

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• Researchers Demo How Apps, Chargers Can Circumvent Security (NetworkWorld.com, 7.31.13)
• Apple iOS Security Defeated by Sneaky App (InformationWeek.com, 8.16.13)
• Apple Store's Malware Problem Exposed by Researchers (TGDaily.com, 8.16.13)
• Remotely Assembled Malware Blows Past Apple's Screening Process (TechnologyReview.com, 8.16.13)
• Researchers Show How to Slip Malware into Apple's App Store (GigaOm.com, 8.16.13)
• Researchers Slip Malware onto Apple's App Store Again (News.CNET.com, 8.16.13)
• Researchers Snuck Malware onto the App Store by Making it a Transformer (Gizmodo.com, 8.16.13)
• Researchers Successfully Sneak Malware Through Apple's App Review Process (redOrbit.com, 8.18.13)
• Fooling the Appstore One Code-chuck at a Time (TheRegister.co.uk, 8.19.13)

Kurt Thomas on "Trafficking Fraudulent Accounts: The Role of the Underground Market in Twitter Spam and Abuse"

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• Researchers Explore Underground Market of Twitter Spam and Abuse (CSOonline.com, 8.14.13)
• The Underground Market for Spam Twitter Accounts (FastCompany.com, 8.14.13)
• Twitter Scammers Earned Upwards of $459,000 in 10 Month Period (SocialNewsDaily.com, 8.15.13)
• Buying Battles in the War on Twitter Spam (KrebsonSecurity.com, 8.16.13)
• Researchers Put a Dent in the Twitter Underground (ThreatPost.com, 8.16.13)
• Twitter Accounts Created to Spread Spam Malware are Easy to Create and Sell (SCMagazine.com, 8.16.13)

Andy Ozmet on "The White House's Priorities for Cybersecurity"

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• Don't Expect a Unicorn with Cybersecurity Standards, Ozment Says (MainJustice.com, 8.15.13)

Jiyong Jang on "Towards Automatic Software Lineage Inference"

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• Researchers Seek Better Ways to Track Malware's Family Tree (DarkReading.com, 8.15.13)

Terry Nelms on "ExecScent: Mining for New C&C Domains in Live Networks with Adaptive Control Protocol Templates"

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• USENIX: Researchers Propose Security that Adapts to Combat Malware that Morphs (NetworkWorld.com, 8.14.13)

Devdatta Akhawe on "Alice in Warningland: A Large–Scale Field Student of Browser Security Warning Effectiveness"

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• Admins Warned: Drill SSL Knowledge into Your Chrome Users (TheRegister.co.uk, 8.10.13)

Nan Jiang on "Greystar: Fast and Accurate Detection of SMS Spam Numbers in Large Cellular Networks Using Gray Phone Space"

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• New Security Scheme Whacks Test Spammers in Hours (NetworkWorld.com, 8.8.13)

Roel Verdult on "Dismantling Megamos Crypto: Wirelessly Lockpicking a Vehicle Immobilizer"

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• Car Hacking Scientists Agree to Delay Paper that Could Unlock Porsches (TheGuardian.com, 7.30.13)
• Volkswagen Sues UK University After it Hacked Sports Cars (Telegraphy.co.uk, 7.30.13)
• White Hat Luxury Car Hacker to Speak at USENIX Security Event Despite Injunction (NetworkWorld.com, 8.2.13)
• Speculation Trumps Academic Freedom (EFF.org, 8.6.13)