Taking Down Booters: The Cat-and-Mouse Game, blog post for our USENIX Security paper www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2025/09/06/taking-down-b... #DDoS #USENIXSecurity #Cybercrime #NetworkSecurity (also this is my first USENIX Security paper after many many […]

Not cool.

"We have determined that a bad
actor has generated false slides and
exploited USENIX’s slide collection process to submit them as though
they belong to legitimate authors."

#usenixsecurity

Big Help or Big Brother? UC Davis Study Reveals Alarming Browser Tracking A new UC Davis-led study reveals that GenAI browser assistants collect and share sensitive data without users’ knowledge, calling for stronger safeguards, transparency and awareness to protect user pr...

@yash-vekaria.bsky.social is presenting his research "Big Help or Big Brother?" at the 2025 USENIX Security Symposium this week. The paper shows tracking and profiling risks in GenAI browser assistants. #USENIXSecurity

engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/big-hel...

Looking forward to presenting our paper on “Hi mum and dad” SMS scams next week #USENIXSecurity in Seattle! If you are attending #USENIX25, come to the Fraud, Malware and Spam track on 14th Aug! @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk @imdeainstitutes.bsky.social #StopScamsUK #onlinefraud #scams #cybercrime

At #USENIXSecurity? Wind down Wed 13 Aug 7-10pm @ The Fog Room. FAR.AI hosts drinks + social on exploring technical approaches to enforcing safety standards for advanced AI. 75 spots. RSVP buff.ly/prVftCc

‘Hi Mum and Dad’ … inside the emotive text scam Fraudsters are posing as vulnerable children to trick parents out of thousands of pounds — but the police and phone companies are playing catch-up

🔔🚨The results from our work on categorization of #SMSscams published at #IMC2024 and the upcoming paper on “Hi Mum and Dad” SMS scams at #USENIXSecurity are published in today’s article @thetimes.com by @yennahsmart.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/business-mon... #StopScamsUK #scams @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk

It’s always exciting to see your research making an impact and being referred by industry stakeholders. Our “Hi Mum and Dad” SMS scam paper set to appear @ #USENIXSecurity, has been referred by @phonely.bsky.social in their latest blog article on #himum #scams! www.phonely.co.uk/blogs/guides...

Our paper on provenance-based intrusion detection has been accepted at USENIX Security 2025!

📄 Preprint: tfjmp.org/publications...
🛠️ Artifact: github.com/ubc-provenan...

Check it out! #CyberSecurity #IntrusionDetection #USENIXSecurity @cs.ubc.ca