Vern Paxson
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Research Areas
Security (SEC)Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT)
Research Centers
International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)Selected Publications
D. Fifield, C. Lan, R. Hynes, P. Wegmann, and V. Paxson, "Blocking-resistant communication through domain fronting," in Proc. Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, 2015.K. Thomas, E. Bursztein, C. Grier, G. Ho, N. Jagpal, A. Kapravelos, D. McCoy, A. Nappa, V. Paxson, P. Pearce, N. Provos, and M. Abu Rajab, "Ad Injection at Scale: Assessing Deceptive Advertisement Modifications," in Proc. IEEE Security and Privacy, 2015.
P. Pearce, V. Dave, C. Grier, K. Levchenko, S. Guha, D. McCoy, V. Paxson, S. Savage, and G. Voelker, "Characterizing Large-Scale Click Fraud in ZeroAccess," in Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Computer and Communications Security, 2014.
S. Khattak, M. Javed, S. Khayam, Z. Uzmi, and V. Paxson, "A Look at the Consequences of Internet Censorship Through an ISP Lens," in Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2014.
Z. Durumeric, J. Kasten, D. Adrian, J. A. Halderman, M. Bailey, F. Li, N. Weaver, J. Amann, J. Beekman, M. Payer, and V. Paxson, "The Matter of Heartbleed," in ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2014.
A. Kapravelos, C. Grier, N. Chachra, C. Kruegel, G. Vigna, V. Paxson, D. Kirat, G. De Maio, Y. Shoshitaishvili, and G. Stringhini, "Hulk: eliciting malicious behavior in browser extensions," in Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX conference on Security Symposium, 2014, pp. 641--654.
W. R. Marczak, J. Scott-Railton, M. Marquis-Boire, and V. Paxson, "When Governments Hack Opponents: A Look at Actors and Technology," in Proceedings of the 23rd USENIX Security Symposium, 2014.
K. Thomas, F. Li, C. Grier, and V. Paxson, "Consequences of Connectivity: Characterizing Account Hijacking on Twitter," in Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Computer and Communications Security, 2014.
S. Khattak, M. Javed, P. D. Anderson, and V. Paxson, "Towards Illuminating a Censorship Monitor’s Model to Facilitate Evasion," in USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communication on the Internet, 2013.
M. Javed and V. Paxson, "Detecting stealthy, distributed SSH brute-forcing," in Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Computer and Communications Security, 2013, pp. 85--96.
V. Paxson, M. Christodorescu, M. Javed, J. R. Rao, R. Sailer, D. L. Schales, M. P. Stoecklin, K. Thomas, W. Venema, and N. Weaver, "Practical Comprehensive Bounds on Surreptitious Communication over DNS," in USENIX Security Symposium, 2013, pp. 17--32.
K. Thomas, D. McCoy, C. Grier, A. Kolcz, and V. Paxson, "Trafficking Fraudulent Accounts: The Role of the Underground Market in Twitter Spam and Abuse," in USENIX Security Symposium, 2013, pp. 195--210.
M. Dhawan, J. Samuel, R. Teixeira, C. Kreibich, M. Allman, N. Weaver, and V. Paxson, "Fathom: A browser-based network measurement platform," in Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2012, pp. 73--86.
C. Rossow, C. J. Dietrich, C. Grier, C. Kreibich, V. Paxson, N. Pohlmann, H. Bos, and M. Van Steen, "Prudent Practices for Designing Malware Experiments: Status Quo and Outlook," in IEEE Security and Privacy, 2012, pp. 65--79.
L. Martignoni, P. Poosankam, M. Zaharia, J. Han, S. McCamant, D. Song, V. Paxson, A. Perrig, S. Shenker, and I. Stoica, "Cloud Terminal: Secure Access to Sensitive Applications from Untrusted Systems," in USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2012, pp. 165--182.
K. Thomas, C. Grier, and V. Paxson, "Adapting social spam infrastructure for political censorship," in Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats, 2012, pp. 13--13.
K. Levchenko, A. Pitsillidis, N. Chachra, B. Enright, M. Felegyhazi, C. Grier, T. Halvorson, C. Kanich, C. Kreibich, H. Liu, and V. Paxson, "Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain," in IEEE Security and Privacy (SP), 2011, 2011, pp. 431--446.
C. Kanich, N. Weaver, D. McCoy, T. Halvorson, C. Kreibich, K. Levchenko, V. Paxson, G. M. Voelker, and S. Savage, "Show Me the Money: Characterizing Spam-advertised Revenue," in USENIX Security Symposium, 2011, pp. 15--15.
J. Caballero, C. Grier, C. Kreibich, and V. Paxson, "Measuring Pay-Per-Install: The Commoditization of Malware Distribution.," in USENIX Security Symposium, 2011.
K. Thomas, C. Grier, J. Ma, V. Paxson, and D. Song, "Design and evaluation of a real-time URL spam filtering service," in Security and Privacy (SP), 2011 IEEE Symposium on, 2011, pp. 447--462.
Awards, Memberships and Fellowships
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Test of Time Award, 2020Internet Defense Prize, 2017
Signatures Innovation Fellow, 2016
IEEE Internet Award, 2015
Diane S. McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching Computer Science, 2013
ACM SIGCOMM Award, 2011
Jim and Donna Gray Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Computer Science, 2011
Grace Murray Hopper Award, 2007
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, 2006
ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Paper Award, 2006
ComSoc William R. Bennett Prize, 2002
ComSoc William R. Bennett Prize, 1998