[LOGOS] Fri Prof. Michalis Faloutsos

[Emiliano De Cristofaro]

A kind reminder of today's Valentine's Day meetup, featuring the one and
only Prof. Faloutsos!

SPEAKER
> Michalis Faloutsos
> UC Riverside
>
> WHEN/WHERE
> Friday, Feb 14, 2 PM
> In-Person: WCH 203 (strongly preferred)
> Zoom: link
> <https://ucr.zoom.us/j/98664053204?pwd=quPIPmylgJjHap4VkzPnaaVKk1ndi6.1>
>
> TITLE
> Preemptive Security: taking away the first mover advantage of the hackers
>
> ABSTRACT
> Can we do better than just waiting for the next attack to happen? We argue
> that security can become more proactive in order to minimize the damage
> that an attack, such as a DDoS or a virus, can have. Although this is an
> ambitious goal, we believe that we are making significant and promising
> steps towards it. Specifically, our work consists of the following
> "preemptive" thrusts:
> a.  We develop, C2Store, an authoritative source of C2 servers, to provide
> the most comprehensive information on C2 servers.
> b. We identify real malware source code: we develop SourceFinder, a
> systematic approach to identify malware repositories on public online
> archives like GitHub. We have found 17K such malware repositories, with
> high precision (>89%).
> c. We develop GeekMan,  a systematic human-inspired approach to identify
> similar usernames across online platforms focusing on technogeek platforms.
> Our method outperforms previous methods with a Precision of 81-86%. We see
> our approach as a fundamental re- search capability, which we made publicly
> available on GitHub.
> Our initial results are promising and the combined power of our preemptive
> security methods can fill in a significant gap in the current security
> ecosystem in an effort to take away the first mover advantage that the
> hackers enjoy currently.
>
> BIO
> Michalis Faloutsos is a faculty member at the Computer Science Dpt and
> Director of Entrepreneurship in the University of California Riverside. He
> got his bachelor's degree at the National Technical University of Athens
> and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto.  His interests
> include,  network and systems security, online social networks analytics,
> and network  measurements. With his two brothers, he co-authored the paper
> "On powerlaws of the Internet topology" (SIGCOMM'99), which received the
> "Test of Time" award from ACM SIGCOMM.  His research has resulted in more
> than 18K citations,  an h-index greater than 56, and an i10-index greater
> than 120. His work has been supported by many NSF, DHS, ARL, and DARPA
> grants, for a cumulative amount of more than $15M. He is the co-founder of
> stopthehacker.com, a web-security start-up, which got acquired by
> Cloudflare in November 2013. In Aug 2014, he co-founded programize.com,
> which provides product development as a service and grew to 85 people by
> its sixth year.
>
>
>
> --
> Prof. Emiliano De Cristofaro
> Computer Science and Engineering
> University of California, Riverside
> https://emilianodc.com
>
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