Bug and Malware Detection on a Web Scale

Speaker Details

Engin Kirda is associate professor at the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University in Boston. He has previously been an associate professor in the Networking and Security Department at Institute Eurecom in France (2008-2010) and has also served on the computer science faculty at the Technical University of Vienna (2003-2007). Professor Kirda’s research focuses on security issues with the potential to affect a large number of people. He is the co-founder and co-director of the International Secure Systems Lab, a collaborative effort of European and U.S. researchers focused on Web security, malware and vulnerability analysis, intrusion detection, and other computer security issues. The lab is well-known for developing tools such as Anubis, which analyzes malware; FIRE (FInding RoguE Networks), which determines whether an Internet service provider has been compromised; and Pixy, which conducts vulnerability assessments for Web pages.

Ben Livshits is a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, he received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Math from Cornell University in 1999, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2002 and 2006, respectively. Dr. Livshits’ research interests include application of sophisticated static and dynamic analysis techniques to finding errors in programs.

He is known for his work in software reliability and especially tools to improve software security, with a primary focus on approaches to finding buffer overruns in C programs and a variety of security vulnerabilities (cross-site scripting, SQL injections, etc.) in Web-based applications. He is the author of several dozen academic papers and patents. Lately he has been focusing on how Web application and browser reliability, performance, and security can be improved through a combination of static and runtime techniques.

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Speakers:
Engin Kirda and Ben Livshits
Affiliation:
Institute Eurecom, MSR
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