Legislative Engineering - Design Privacy Laws, Don't Just Draft Them - USENIX Enigma Conference - 2017
Exploring software engineering techniques to improve technology legislation, focusing on component-based architecture and modeling to create more effective and consistent laws.
Behaviors and Patterns of Bulletproof and Anonymous Hosting Providers - USENIX Enigma Conference - 2017
Explore bulletproof and anonymous hosting providers' role in cybercrime, focusing on The Netherlands as a case study. Learn about threat detection, jurisdictional challenges, and potential solutions.
Cyber Security: A DARPA Perspective - John Launchbury - USENIX Enigma - 2017
Explore DARPA's cybersecurity perspective, including current threats, attack anatomy, and innovative R&D efforts to combat sophisticated cyber challenges and enhance system security.
Green Sprouts - Encouraging Signs of Life from the Department of Defense's Security Strategy - Lisa Wiswell - USENIX Enigma Conference - 2017
Explores DoD's shift towards open security practices, including bug bounties and vulnerability disclosure policies, highlighting progress and implications for researchers and prosecutors.
Internet Voting- What Could Go Wrong? - USENIX Enigma Conference - 2016
Explores security challenges of internet voting, revealing vulnerabilities in existing systems and discussing potential risks to election integrity, privacy, and public trust in digital voting methods.
Capture the Flag: An Owner's Manual - USENIX Enigma 2016
Explore the intricacies of organizing Capture the Flag hacking competitions, from team building to contest design, and learn about the unique challenges and strategies involved in creating engaging cybersecurity events.
Data Integrity Based Attacks in Investigative Domains - USENIX Enigma Conference - 2016
Exploring data integrity attacks in investigative domains, showcasing real-world cases and strategies to defend against misinformation and manipulation in big data analytics.
Several Horror Stories About the Encrypted Web - Peter Eckersley and Yan Zhu - USENIX Enigma Conference - 2016
Explore challenges in web encryption through real-world horror stories from Let's Encrypt and HTTPS Everywhere projects, offering insights into staying secure in a complex digital landscape.
Building a Competitive Hacking Team - USENIX Enigma 2016
Insights on building effective competitive hacking teams, focusing on Capture the Flag contests. Learn strategies for team formation, skill development, and maximizing participation in cybersecurity challenges.
Trust Beyond the First Hop–What Really Happens to Data Sent to HTTPS Websites - USENIX Enigma Conference - 2016
Explore the complex journey of web data beyond HTTPS, examining modern web infrastructure, security indicators, and potential approaches to extend trust beyond initial encryption.
Drops for Stuff: An Analysis of Reshipping Mule Scams - USENIX Enigma 2016
Análisis de estafas de reenvío de paquetes: cómo los cibercriminales monetizan tarjetas robadas mediante reclutamiento de intermediarios inocentes para reenviar productos comprados fraudulentamente al extranjero.
Dolla Dolla Bill Y'all - Cybercrime Cashouts - USENIX Enigma Conference - 2016
Explore cybercrime cashout strategies, tools, and techniques. Gain insights into e-launderers' methods and learn effective defense tactics against financially motivated cyberattacks.
Defending, Detecting, and Responding to Hardware and Firmware Attacks - Teddy Reed - USENIX Enigma Conference - 2016
Explore firmware security, attack surfaces, and defense strategies. Learn to detect vulnerabilities, monitor integrity, and implement deep systems defense for enterprise protection against hardware and firmware attacks.
Modern Automotive Security: History, Disclosure, and Consequences - USENIX Enigma 2016
Explore automotive cybersecurity evolution, vulnerabilities in modern vehicles, and the impact of research disclosure on industry and government responses to these critical issues.
PKI at Scale Using Short-Lived Certificates - USENIX Enigma 2016
Explore PKI deployment challenges at scale, focusing on short-lived certificates for cloud microservices. Learn about operational hurdles, scaling certificate authorities, and maintaining instance trustworthiness.
We Need Something Better—Building STAR Vote - Dana DeBeauvoir - USENIX Enigma Conference - 2016
Exploring the evolution of voting systems, challenges with electronic voting, and the development of STAR Vote for secure, transparent, and auditable elections in Travis County, Texas.
Bullet-Proof Credit Card Processing - Damon McCoy - USENIX Enigma - 2016
Explore the world of bullet-proof credit card processing for counterfeit goods, its ecosystem, and the challenges in disrupting these operations. Learn about rogue payment facilitators and their sophisticated filtering systems.
Hacking Health - Security in Healthcare IT Systems - USENIX Enigma 2016
Explore healthcare IT security challenges, from doctor complexes to patient data access, and learn about vulnerabilities in medical devices, cloud systems, and wearable technology.
Validating the eBPF Verifier via State Embedding
Innovative technique for validating eBPF verifier correctness using state embedding, uncovering critical Linux kernel security bugs and improving overall system reliability.
Ethane - An Asymmetric File System for Disaggregated Persistent Memory
Innovative file system leveraging disaggregated persistent memory to enhance performance and cost-effectiveness in distributed environments, outperforming modern alternatives by up to 68x.
Scalable and Effective Page-table and TLB Management on NUMA Systems
Innovative approach to page-table management in NUMA systems, enhancing performance through on-demand replication and reduced TLB shootdowns, benefiting highly threaded applications.