Kurt Thomas

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2010-2024
Publications (10 Years): 47

Top Topics

Global Structure

Training Dataset

Top Venues

USENIX Security Symposium

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Publications

Miranda Wei, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tadayoshi Kohno, Tara Matthews, Sarah Meiklejohn, Franziska Roesner, Renee Shelby, Kurt Thomas, Rebecca Umbach
Understanding Help-Seeking and Help-Giving on Social Media for Image-Based Sexual Abuse. CoRR (2024)
Kurt Thomas, Patrick Gage Kelley, David Tao, Sarah Meiklejohn, Owen Vallis, Shunwen Tan, Blaz Bratanic, Felipe Tiengo Ferreira, Vijay Kumar Eranti, Elie Bursztein
Supporting Human Raters with the Detection of Harmful Content using Large Language Models. CoRR (2024)
Stephen Meisenbacher, Alexandra Klymenko, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sai Teja Peddinti, Kurt Thomas, Florian Matthes
Privacy Risks of General-Purpose AI Systems: A Foundation for Investigating Practitioner Perspectives. CoRR (2024)
Enze Liu, George Kappos, Eric Mugnier, Luca Invernizzi, Stefan Savage, David Tao, Kurt Thomas, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Sarah Meiklejohn
Give and Take: An End-To-End Investigation of Giveaway Scam Conversion Rates. CoRR (2024)
Miranda Wei, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tadayoshi Kohno, Tara Matthews, Sarah Meiklejohn, Franziska Roesner, Renee Shelby, Kurt Thomas, Rebecca Umbach
Understanding Help-Seeking and Help-Giving on Social Media for Image-Based Sexual Abuse. USENIX Security Symposium (2024)
Deepak Kumar, Jeff T. Hancock, Kurt Thomas, Zakir Durumeric
Understanding the Behaviors of Toxic Accounts on Reddit. WWW (2023)
Nicholas Carlini, Matthew Jagielski, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Daniel Paleka, Will Pearce, Hyrum Anderson, Andreas Terzis, Kurt Thomas, Florian Tramèr
Poisoning Web-Scale Training Datasets is Practical. CoRR (2023)
Patrick Gage Kelley, Celestina Cornejo, Lisa Hayes, Ellie Shuo Jin, Aaron Sedley, Kurt Thomas, Yongwei Yang, Allison Woodruff
"There will be less privacy, of course": How and why people in 10 countries expect AI will affect privacy in the future. SOUPS (2023)
Miranda Wei, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner, Kurt Thomas
"There's so much responsibility on users right now: " Expert Advice for Staying Safer From Hate and Harassment. CHI (2023)
Kurt Thomas, Sarah Meiklejohn, Michael A. Specter, Xiang Wang, Xavier Llorà, Stephan Somogyi, David Kleidermacher
Robust, privacy-preserving, transparent, and auditable on-device blocklisting. CoRR (2023)
Patrawat Samermit, Anna Turner, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tara Matthews, Vanessia Wu, Sunny Consolvo, Kurt Thomas
"Millions of people are watching you": Understanding the Digital-Safety Needs and Practices of Creators. USENIX Security Symposium (2023)
Diana Freed, Natalie N. Bazarova, Sunny Consolvo, Eunice J. Han, Patrick Gage Kelley, Kurt Thomas, Dan Cosley
Understanding Digital-Safety Experiences of Youth in the U.S. CHI (2023)
Miranda Wei, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner, Kurt Thomas
"There's so much responsibility on users right now: " Expert Advice for Staying Safer From Hate and Harassment. CoRR (2023)
Deepak Kumar, Jeff Hancock, Kurt Thomas, Zakir Durumeric
Understanding Longitudinal Behaviors of Toxic Accounts on Reddit. CoRR (2022)
Noel Warford, Tara Matthews, Kaitlyn Yang, Omer Akgul, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Nathan Malkin, Michelle L. Mazurek, Manya Sleeper, Kurt Thomas
SoK: A Framework for Unifying At-Risk User Research. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2022)
Kurt Thomas, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sunny Consolvo, Patrawat Samermit, Elie Bursztein
"It's common and a part of being a content creator": Understanding How Creators Experience and Cope with Hate and Harassment Online. CHI (2022)
Deepak Kumar, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sunny Consolvo, Joshua Mason, Elie Bursztein, Zakir Durumeric, Kurt Thomas, Michael Bailey
Designing Toxic Content Classification for a Diversity of Perspectives. CoRR (2021)
Deepak Kumar, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sunny Consolvo, Joshua Mason, Elie Bursztein, Zakir Durumeric, Kurt Thomas, Michael Bailey
Designing Toxic Content Classification for a Diversity of Perspectives. SOUPS @ USENIX Security Symposium (2021)
Kurt Thomas, Devdatta Akhawe, Michael Bailey, Dan Boneh, Elie Bursztein, Sunny Consolvo, Nicola Dell, Zakir Durumeric, Patrick Gage Kelley, Deepak Kumar, Damon McCoy, Sarah Meiklejohn, Thomas Ristenpart, Gianluca Stringhini
SoK: Hate, Harassment, and the Changing Landscape of Online Abuse. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2021)
Noel Warford, Tara Matthews, Kaitlyn Yang, Omer Akgul, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Nathan Malkin, Michelle L. Mazurek, Manya Sleeper, Kurt Thomas
SoK: A Framework for Unifying At-Risk User Research. CoRR (2021)
Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tara Matthews, Kurt Thomas, Lee Dunn, Elie Bursztein
"Why wouldn't someone think of democracy as a target?": Security practices & challenges of people involved with U.S. political campaigns. CoRR (2021)
Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tara Matthews, Kurt Thomas, Lee Dunn, Elie Bursztein
"Why wouldn't someone think of democracy as a target?": Security practices & challenges of people involved with U.S. political campaigns. USENIX Security Symposium (2021)
Camelia Simoiu, Ali Zand, Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein
Who is targeted by email-based phishing and malware?: Measuring factors that differentiate risk. Internet Measurement Conference (2020)
Adam Oest, Penghui Zhang, Brad Wardman, Eric Nunes, Jakub Burgis, Ali Zand, Kurt Thomas, Adam Doupé, Gail-Joon Ahn
Sunrise to Sunset: Analyzing the End-to-end Life Cycle and Effectiveness of Phishing Attacks at Scale. USENIX Security Symposium (2020)
Periwinkle Doerfler, Kurt Thomas, Maija Marincenko, Juri Ranieri, Yu Jiang, Angelika Moscicki, Damon McCoy
Evaluating Login Challenges as aDefense Against Account Takeover. WWW (2019)
Nithya Sambasivan, Amna Batool, Nova Ahmed, Tara Matthews, Kurt Thomas, Laura Sanely Gaytán-Lugo, David Nemer, Elie Bursztein, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Sunny Consolvo
"They Don't Leave Us Alone Anywhere We Go": Gender and Digital Abuse in South Asia. CHI (2019)
Nithya Sambasivan, Nova Ahmed, Amna Batool, Elie Bursztein, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Laura Sanely Gaytán-Lugo, Tara Matthews, David Nemer, Kurt Thomas, Sunny Consolvo
Toward Gender-Equitable Privacy and Security in South Asia. IEEE Secur. Priv. 17 (4) (2019)
Ariana Mirian, Joe DeBlasio, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Kurt Thomas
Hack for Hire: Exploring the Emerging Market for Account Hijacking. WWW (2019)
Theo Bertram, Elie Bursztein, Stephanie Caro, Hubert Chao, Rutledge Chin Feman, Peter Fleischer, Albin Gustafsson, Jess Hemerly, Chris Hibbert, Luca Invernizzi, Lanah Kammourieh Donnelly, Jason Ketover, Jay Laefer, Paul Nicholas, Yuan Niu, Harjinder Obhi, David Price, Andrew Strait, Kurt Thomas, Al Verney
Five Years of the Right to be Forgotten. CCS (2019)
Kurt Thomas, Jennifer Pullman, Kevin Yeo, Ananth Raghunathan, Patrick Gage Kelley, Luca Invernizzi, Borbala Benko, Tadek Pietraszek, Sarvar Patel, Dan Boneh, Elie Bursztein
Protecting accounts from credential stuffing with password breach alerting. USENIX Security Symposium (2019)
Elie Bursztein, Einat Clarke, Michelle DeLaune, David M. Elifff, Nick Hsu, Lindsey Olson, John Shehan, Madhukar Thakur, Kurt Thomas, Travis Bright
Rethinking the Detection of Child Sexual Abuse Imagery on the Internet. WWW (2019)
Peng Gao, Binghui Wang, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Kurt Thomas, Prateek Mittal
SybilFuse: Combining Local Attributes with Global Structure to Perform Robust Sybil Detection. CoRR (2018)
Peng Gao, Binghui Wang, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Kurt Thomas, Prateek Mittal
SYBILFUSE: Combining Local Attributes with Global Structure to Perform Robust Sybil Detection. CNS (2018)
Sowmya Karunakaran, Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein, Oxana Comanescu
Data Breaches: User Comprehension, Expectations, and Concerns with Handling Exposed Data. SOUPS @ USENIX Security Symposium (2018)
Manos Antonakakis, Tim April, Michael Bailey, Matt Bernhard, Elie Bursztein, Jaime Cochran, Zakir Durumeric, J. Alex Halderman, Luca Invernizzi, Michalis Kallitsis, Deepak Kumar, Chaz Lever, Zane Ma, Joshua Mason, Damian Menscher, Chad Seaman, Nick Sullivan, Kurt Thomas, Yi Zhou
Understanding the Mirai Botnet. USENIX Security Symposium (2017)
Danny Yuxing Huang, Doug Grundman, Kurt Thomas, Abhishek Kumar, Elie Bursztein, Kirill Levchenko, Alex C. Snoeren
Pinning Down Abuse on Google Maps. WWW (2017)
Kurt Thomas, Frank Li, Ali Zand, Jacob Barrett, Juri Ranieri, Luca Invernizzi, Yarik Markov, Oxana Comanescu, Vijay Eranti, Angelika Moscicki, Daniel Margolis, Vern Paxson, Elie Bursztein
Data Breaches, Phishing, or Malware?: Understanding the Risks of Stolen Credentials. CCS (2017)
Luca Invernizzi, Kurt Thomas, Alexandros Kapravelos, Oxana Comanescu, Jean Michel Picod, Elie Bursztein
Cloak of Visibility: Detecting When Machines Browse a Different Web. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2016)
Kurt Thomas, Rony Amira, Adi Ben-Yoash, Ori Folger, Amir Hardon, Ari Berger, Elie Bursztein, Michael Bailey
The Abuse Sharing Economy: Understanding the Limits of Threat Exchanges. RAID (2016)
Elie Bursztein, Artem Malyshev, Tadek Pietraszek, Kurt Thomas
Picasso: Lightweight Device Class Fingerprinting for Web Clients. SPSM@CCS (2016)
Kurt Thomas, Juan A. Elices Crespo, Ryan Rasti, Jean Michel Picod, Cait Phillips, Marc-André Decoste, Chris Sharp, Fabio Tirelo, Ali Tofigh, Marc-Antoine Courteau, Lucas Ballard, Robert Shield, Nav Jagpal, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Niels Provos, Elie Bursztein, Damon McCoy
Investigating Commercial Pay-Per-Install and the Distribution of Unwanted Software. USENIX Security Symposium (2016)
Frank Li, Grant Ho, Eric Kuan, Yuan Niu, Lucas Ballard, Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein, Vern Paxson
Remedying Web Hijacking: Notification Effectiveness and Webmaster Comprehension. WWW (2016)
Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein, Chris Grier, Grant Ho, Nav Jagpal, Alexandros Kapravelos, Damon McCoy, Antonio Nappa, Vern Paxson, Paul Pearce, Niels Provos, Moheeb Abu Rajab
Ad Injection at Scale: Assessing Deceptive Advertisement Modifications. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2015)
Zakir Durumeric, David Adrian, Ariana Mirian, James Kasten, Elie Bursztein, Nicolas Lidzborski, Kurt Thomas, Vijay Eranti, Michael Bailey, J. Alex Halderman
Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor MITM...: An Empirical Analysis of Email Delivery Security. Internet Measurement Conference (2015)
Peng Gao, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Kurt Thomas, Prateek Mittal
SybilFrame: A Defense-in-Depth Framework for Structure-Based Sybil Detection. CoRR (2015)
Nav Jagpal, Eric Dingle, Jean-Philippe Gravel, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Niels Provos, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Kurt Thomas
Trends and Lessons from Three Years Fighting Malicious Extensions. USENIX Security Symposium (2015)
Kurt Thomas, Danny Yuxing Huang, David Y. Wang, Elie Bursztein, Chris Grier, Tom Holt, Christopher Kruegel, Damon McCoy, Stefan Savage, Giovanni Vigna
Framing Dependencies Introduced by Underground Commoditization. WEIS (2015)
Kurt Thomas, Dmytro Iatskiv, Elie Bursztein, Tadek Pietraszek, Chris Grier, Damon McCoy
Dialing Back Abuse on Phone Verified Accounts. CCS (2014)
Kurt Thomas, Frank Li, Chris Grier, Vern Paxson
Consequences of Connectivity: Characterizing Account Hijacking on Twitter. CCS (2014)
Vern Paxson, Mihai Christodorescu, Mobin Javed, Josyula R. Rao, Reiner Sailer, Douglas Lee Schales, Marc Ph. Stoecklin, Kurt Thomas, Wietse Z. Venema, Nicholas Weaver
Practical Comprehensive Bounds on Surreptitious Communication over DNS. USENIX Security Symposium (2013)
Kurt Thomas, Damon McCoy, Chris Grier, Alek Kolcz, Vern Paxson
Trafficking Fraudulent Accounts: The Role of the Underground Market in Twitter Spam and Abuse. USENIX Security Symposium (2013)
Chris Grier, Lucas Ballard, Juan Caballero, Neha Chachra, Christian J. Dietrich, Kirill Levchenko, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Damon McCoy, Antonio Nappa, Andreas Pitsillidis, Niels Provos, M. Zubair Rafique, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Christian Rossow, Kurt Thomas, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker
Manufacturing compromise: the emergence of exploit-as-a-service. CCS (2012)
Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, Vern Paxson
Adapting Social Spam Infrastructure for Political Censorship. LEET (2012)
Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, Justin Ma, Vern Paxson, Dawn Song
Design and Evaluation of a Real-Time URL Spam Filtering Service. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2011)
Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, Dawn Song, Vern Paxson
Suspended accounts in retrospect: an analysis of twitter spam. Internet Measurement Conference (2011)
Chris Grier, Kurt Thomas, Vern Paxson, Chao Michael Zhang
@spam: the underground on 140 characters or less. CCS (2010)
Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, David M. Nicol
unFriendly: Multi-party Privacy Risks in Social Networks. Privacy Enhancing Technologies (2010)
Kurt Thomas, David M. Nicol
The Koobface botnet and the rise of social malware. MALWARE (2010)