Vern Paxson

ORCID

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1993-2023
Publications (10 Years): 58

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USENIX Security Symposium

CoRR

Internet Measurement Conference

CCS

Publications

Julien Piet, Aashish Sharma, Vern Paxson, David A. Wagner
Network Detection of Interactive SSH Impostors Using Deep Learning. USENIX Security Symposium (2023)
Julien Piet, Dubem Nwoji, Vern Paxson
GGFAST: Automating Generation of Flexible Network Traffic Classifiers. SIGCOMM (2023)
Grant Ho, Mayank Dhiman, Devdatta Akhawe, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, David A. Wagner
Hopper: Modeling and Detecting Lateral Movement. USENIX Security Symposium (2021)
Grant Ho, Mayank Dhiman, Devdatta Akhawe, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, David A. Wagner
Hopper: Modeling and Detecting Lateral Movement (Extended Report). CoRR (2021)
Jianjun Chen, Vern Paxson, Jian Jiang
Composition Kills: A Case Study of Email Sender Authentication. USENIX Security Symposium (2020)
Grant Ho, Asaf Cidon, Lior Gavish, Marco Schweighauser, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, David A. Wagner
Detecting and Characterizing Lateral Phishing at Scale. USENIX Security Symposium (2019)
Grant Ho, Asaf Cidon, Lior Gavish, Marco Schweighauser, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, David A. Wagner
Detecting and Characterizing Lateral Phishing at Scale. CoRR (2019)
Jianjun Chen, Jian Jiang, Hai-Xin Duan, Tao Wan, Shuo Chen, Vern Paxson, Min Yang
We Still Don't Have Secure Cross-Domain Requests: an Empirical Study of CORS. USENIX Security Symposium (2018)
Sadia Afroz, Mobin Javed, Vern Paxson, Shoaib Asif Qazi, Shaarif Sajid, Michael Carl Tschantz
A Bestiary of Blocking: The Motivations and Modes behind Website Unavailability. CoRR (2018)
Michael Carl Tschantz, Sadia Afroz, Shaarif Sajid, Shoaib Asif Qazi, Mobin Javed, Vern Paxson
A Bestiary of Blocking: The Motivations and Modes behind Website Unavailability. FOCI @ USENIX Security Symposium (2018)
Frank Li, Vern Paxson
A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Security Patches. login Usenix Mag. 43 (1) (2018)
Rachee Singh, Rishab Nithyanand, Sadia Afroz, Paul Pearce, Michael Carl Tschantz, Phillipa Gill, Vern Paxson
Characterizing the Nature and Dynamics of Tor Exit Blocking. ANRW (2018)
Shehar Bano, Philipp Richter, Mobin Javed, Srikanth Sundaresan, Zakir Durumeric, Steven J. Murdoch, Richard Mortier, Vern Paxson
Scanning the Internet for Liveness. Comput. Commun. Rev. 48 (2) (2018)
Sadia Afroz, Michael Carl Tschantz, Shaarif Sajid, Shoaib Asif Qazi, Mobin Javed, Vern Paxson
Exploring Server-side Blocking of Regions. CoRR (2018)
Paul Pearce, Roya Ensafi, Frank Li, Nick Feamster, Vern Paxson
Toward Continual Measurement of Global Network-Level Censorship. IEEE Secur. Priv. 16 (1) (2018)
William R. Marczak, Vern Paxson
Social Engineering Attacks on Government Opponents: Target Perspectives. Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol. 2017 (2) (2017)
Zakir Durumeric, Zane Ma, Drew Springall, Richard Barnes, Nick Sullivan, Elie Bursztein, Michael Bailey, J. Alex Halderman, Vern Paxson
The Security Impact of HTTPS Interception. NDSS (2017)
Greg Durrett, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Rebecca S. Portnoff, Sadia Afroz, Damon McCoy, Kirill Levchenko, Vern Paxson
Identifying Products in Online Cybercrime Marketplaces: A Dataset for Fine-grained Domain Adaptation. EMNLP (2017)
Paul Pearce, Roya Ensafi, Frank Li, Nick Feamster, Vern Paxson
Augur: Internet-Wide Detection of Connectivity Disruptions. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2017)
Kirill Levchenko, Amogh Dhamdhere, Bradley Huffaker, kc claffy, Mark Allman, Vern Paxson
Packetlab: a universal measurement endpoint interface. Internet Measurement Conference (2017)
Matthew Sargent, John Kristoff, Vern Paxson, Mark Allman
On the Potential Abuse of IGMP. Comput. Commun. Rev. 47 (1) (2017)
Paul Pearce, Ben Jones, Frank Li, Roya Ensafi, Nick Feamster, Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson
Global Measurement of DNS Manipulation. USENIX Security Symposium (2017)
Rachee Singh, Rishab Nithyanand, Sadia Afroz, Paul Pearce, Michael Carl Tschantz, Phillipa Gill, Vern Paxson
Characterizing the Nature and Dynamics of Tor Exit Blocking. USENIX Security Symposium (2017)
Austin Murdock, Frank Li, Paul Bramsen, Zakir Durumeric, Vern Paxson
Target generation for internet-wide IPv6 scanning. Internet Measurement Conference (2017)
Rebecca S. Portnoff, Sadia Afroz, Greg Durrett, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Damon McCoy, Kirill Levchenko, Vern Paxson
Tools for Automated Analysis of Cybercriminal Markets. 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)
Frank Li, Vern Paxson
A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Security Patches. CCS (2017)
Paul Pearce, Ben Jones, Frank Li, Roya Ensafi, Nick Feamster, Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson
Global-Scale Measurement of DNS Manipulation. login Usenix Mag. 42 (4) (2017)
Greg Durrett, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Rebecca S. Portnoff, Sadia Afroz, Damon McCoy, Kirill Levchenko, Vern Paxson
Identifying Products in Online Cybercrime Marketplaces: A Dataset for Fine-grained Domain Adaptation. CoRR (2017)
Grant Ho, Aashish Sharma, Mobin Javed, Vern Paxson, David A. Wagner
Detecting Credential Spearphishing in Enterprise Settings. USENIX Security Symposium (2017)
Jianjun Chen, Jian Jiang, Hai-Xin Duan, Nicholas Weaver, Tao Wan, Vern Paxson
Host of Troubles: Multiple Host Ambiguities in HTTP Implementations. CCS (2016)
Sheharbano Khattak, David Fifield, Sadia Afroz, Mobin Javed, Srikanth Sundaresan, Damon McCoy, Vern Paxson, Steven J. Murdoch
Do You See What I See? Differential Treatment of Anonymous Users. NDSS (2016)
Srikanth Sundaresan, Damon McCoy, Sadia Afroz, Vern Paxson
Profiling underground merchants based on network behavior. eCrime (2016)
Jianjun Chen, Xiaofeng Zheng, Hai-Xin Duan, Jinjin Liang, Jian Jiang, Kang Li, Tao Wan, Vern Paxson
Forwarding-Loop Attacks in Content Delivery Networks. NDSS (2016)
Sakshi Jain, Mobin Javed, Vern Paxson
Towards Mining Latent Client Identifiers from Network Traffic. Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol. 2016 (2) (2016)
Philipp Richter, Florian Wohlfart, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Mark Allman, Randy Bush, Anja Feldmann, Christian Kreibich, Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson
A Multi-perspective Analysis of Carrier-Grade NAT Deployment. Internet Measurement Conference (2016)
Michael Carl Tschantz, Sadia Afroz, anonymous, Vern Paxson
SoK: Towards Grounding Censorship Circumvention in Empiricism. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2016)
Muhammad Ikram, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Suranga Seneviratne, Mohamed Ali Kâafar, Vern Paxson
An Analysis of the Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps. Internet Measurement Conference (2016)
Frank Li, Zakir Durumeric, Jakub Czyz, Mohammad Karami, Michael Bailey, Damon McCoy, Stefan Savage, Vern Paxson
You've Got Vulnerability: Exploring Effective Vulnerability Notifications. USENIX Security Symposium (2016)
Ben Jones, Nick Feamster, Vern Paxson, Nicholas Weaver, Mark Allman
Detecting DNS Root Manipulation. PAM (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)
Shuang Hao, Alex Kantchelian, Brad Miller, Vern Paxson, Nick Feamster
PREDATOR: Proactive Recognition and Elimination of Domain Abuse at Time-Of-Registration. CCS (2016)
Matthias Vallentin, Vern Paxson, Robin Sommer
VAST: A Unified Platform for Interactive Network Forensics. NSDI (2016)
Philipp Richter, Florian Wohlfart, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Mark Allman, Randy Bush, Anja Feldmann, Christian Kreibich, Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson
A Multi-perspective Analysis of Carrier-Grade NAT Deployment. CoRR (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)
David Fifield, Chang Lan, Rod Hynes, Percy Wegmann, Vern Paxson
Blocking-resistant communication through domain fronting. Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol. 2015 (2) (2015)
Philipp Richter, Mark Allman, Randy Bush, Vern Paxson
A Primer on IPv4 Scarcity. Comput. Commun. Rev. 45 (2) (2015)
Frank Li, Richard Shin, Vern Paxson
Exploring Privacy Preservation in Outsourced K-Nearest Neighbors with Multiple Data Owners. CoRR (2015)
Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Srikanth Sundaresan, Christian Kreibich, Vern Paxson
Header Enrichment or ISP Enrichment?: Emerging Privacy Threats in Mobile Networks. HotMiddlebox@SIGCOMM (2015)
Vern Paxson
Keynote Speaker. MALWARE (2015)
Mobin Javed, Cormac Herley, Marcus Peinado, Vern Paxson
Measurement and Analysis of Traffic Exchange Services. Internet Measurement Conference (2015)
Ben Jones, Roya Ensafi, Nick Feamster, Vern Paxson, Nicholas Weaver
Ethical Concerns for Censorship Measurement. NS Ethics@SIGCOMM (2015)
Abbas Razaghpanah, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Srikanth Sundaresan, Christian Kreibich, Phillipa Gill, Mark Allman, Vern Paxson
Haystack: In Situ Mobile Traffic Analysis in User Space. CoRR (2015)
Ryan Rasti, Mukul Murthy, Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson
Temporal Lensing and Its Application in Pulsing Denial-of-Service Attacks. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2015)
Basheer Al-Duwairi, Ahmad T. Al-Hammouri, Monther Aldwairi, Vern Paxson
GFlux: A google-based system for Fast Flux detection. CNS (2015)
Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Srikanth Sundaresan, Christian Kreibich, Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson
Beyond the Radio: Illuminating the Higher Layers of Mobile Networks. MobiSys (2015)
Frank Li, Richard Shin, Vern Paxson
Exploring Privacy Preservation in Outsourced K-Nearest Neighbors with Multiple Data Owners. CCSW (2015)
Roya Ensafi, David Fifield, Philipp Winter, Nick Feamster, Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson
Examining How the Great Firewall Discovers Hidden Circumvention Servers. Internet Measurement Conference (2015)
Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Johanna Amann, Christian Kreibich, Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson
A Tangled Mass: The Android Root Certificate Stores. CoNEXT (2014)
Matthias Vallentin, Dominik Charousset, Thomas C. Schmidt, Vern Paxson, Matthias Wählisch
Native actors: how to scale network forensics. SIGCOMM (2014)
Nicholas Weaver, Christian Kreibich, Martin Dam, Vern Paxson
Here Be Web Proxies. PAM (2014)
Kurt Thomas, Frank Li, Chris Grier, Vern Paxson
Consequences of Connectivity: Characterizing Account Hijacking on Twitter. CCS (2014)
Michael Carl Tschantz, Sadia Afroz, Vern Paxson, J. Doug Tygar
On Modeling the Costs of Censorship. CoRR (2014)
Alexandros Kapravelos, Chris Grier, Neha Chachra, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, Vern Paxson
Hulk: Eliciting Malicious Behavior in Browser Extensions. USENIX Security Symposium (2014)
Zakir Durumeric, James Kasten, David Adrian, J. Alex Halderman, Michael Bailey, Frank Li, Nicholas Weaver, Johanna Amann, Jethro Beekman, Mathias Payer, Vern Paxson
The Matter of Heartbleed. Internet Measurement Conference (2014)
Paul Pearce, Vacha Dave, Chris Grier, Kirill Levchenko, Saikat Guha, Damon McCoy, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker
Characterizing Large-Scale Click Fraud in ZeroAccess. CCS (2014)
Robin Sommer, Matthias Vallentin, Lorenzo De Carli, Vern Paxson
HILTI: an Abstract Execution Environment for Deep, Stateful Network Traffic Analysis. Internet Measurement Conference (2014)
Philipp Richter, Mark Allman, Randy Bush, Vern Paxson
A Primer on IPv4 Scarcity. CoRR (2014)
William R. Marczak, John Scott-Railton, Morgan Marquis-Boire, Vern Paxson
When Governments Hack Opponents: A Look at Actors and Technology. USENIX Security Symposium (2014)
Sheharbano Khattak, Mobin Javed, Syed Ali Khayam, Zartash Afzal Uzmi, Vern Paxson
A Look at the Consequences of Internet Censorship Through an ISP Lens. Internet Measurement Conference (2014)
Mobin Javed, Vern Paxson
Detecting stealthy, distributed SSH brute-forcing. CCS (2013)
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)
Shuang Hao, Matthew Thomas, Vern Paxson, Nick Feamster, Christian Kreibich, Chris Grier, Scott Hollenbeck
Understanding the domain registration behavior of spammers. Internet Measurement Conference (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)
Sheharbano Khattak, Mobin Javed, Philip D. Anderson, Vern Paxson
Towards Illuminating a Censorship Monitor's Model to Facilitate Evasion. FOCI (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)
Lorenzo Martignoni, Pongsin Poosankam, Matei Zaharia, Jun Han, Stephen McCamant, Dawn Song, Vern Paxson, Adrian Perrig, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
Cloud Terminal: Secure Access to Sensitive Applications from Untrusted Systems. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (2012)
Tristan Halvorson, Janos Szurdi, Gregor Maier, Márk Félegyházi, Christian Kreibich, Nicholas Weaver, Kirill Levchenko, Vern Paxson
The BIZ Top-Level Domain: Ten Years Later. PAM (2012)
Christian Rossow, Christian J. Dietrich, Chris Grier, Christian Kreibich, Vern Paxson, Norbert Pohlmann, Herbert Bos, Maarten van Steen
Prudent Practices for Designing Malware Experiments: Status Quo and Outlook. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2012)
Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, Vern Paxson
Adapting Social Spam Infrastructure for Political Censorship. LEET (2012)
Mohan Dhawan, Justin Samuel, Renata Teixeira, Christian Kreibich, Mark Allman, Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson
Fathom: a browser-based network measurement platform. Internet Measurement Conference (2012)
Kirill Levchenko, Andreas Pitsillidis, Neha Chachra, Brandon Enright, Márk Félegyházi, Chris Grier, Tristan Halvorson, Chris Kanich, Christian Kreibich, He Liu, Damon McCoy, Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage
Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2011)
Gregor Maier, Anja Feldmann, Vern Paxson, Robin Sommer, Matthias Vallentin
An Assessment of Overt Malicious Activity Manifest in Residential Networks. DIMVA (2011)
Chris Kanich, Nicholas Weaver, Damon McCoy, Tristan Halvorson, Christian Kreibich, Kirill Levchenko, Vern Paxson, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage
Show Me the Money: Characterizing Spam-advertised Revenue. USENIX Security Symposium (2011)
Vern Paxson, Mark Allman, Jerry Chu, Matt Sargent
Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer. RFC 6298 (2011)
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)
Christian Kreibich, Nicholas Weaver, Chris Kanich, Weidong Cui, Vern Paxson
GQ: practical containment for measuring modern malware systems. Internet Measurement Conference (2011)
Zhichun Li, Anup Goyal, Yan Chen, Vern Paxson
Towards Situational Awareness of Large-Scale Botnet Probing Events. IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. 6 (1) (2011)
Chao Michael Zhang, Vern Paxson
Detecting and Analyzing Automated Activity on Twitter. PAM (2011)
Juan Caballero, Chris Grier, Christian Kreibich, Vern Paxson
Measuring Pay-per-Install: The Commoditization of Malware Distribution. USENIX Security Symposium (2011)
Nicholas Weaver, Christian Kreibich, Vern Paxson
Redirecting DNS for Ads and Profit. FOCI (2011)
Kurt Thomas, Chris Grier, Dawn Song, Vern Paxson
Suspended accounts in retrospect: an analysis of twitter spam. Internet Measurement Conference (2011)
Brad Miller, Paul Pearce, Chris Grier, Christian Kreibich, Vern Paxson
What's Clicking What? Techniques and Innovations of Today's Clickbots. DIMVA (2011)
Christian Kreibich, Nicholas Weaver, Gregor Maier, Boris Nechaev, Vern Paxson
Experiences from Netalyzr with engaging users in end-system measurement. W-MUST@SIGCOMM (2011)
Chia Yuan Cho, Juan Caballero, Chris Grier, Vern Paxson, Dawn Song
Insights from the Inside: A View of Botnet Management from Infiltration. LEET (2010)
Chris Grier, Kurt Thomas, Vern Paxson, Chao Michael Zhang
@spam: the underground on 140 characters or less. CCS (2010)
Tom Callahan, Mark Allman, Vern Paxson
A Longitudinal View of HTTP Traffic. PAM (2010)
Andreas Pitsillidis, Kirill Levchenko, Christian Kreibich, Chris Kanich, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Vern Paxson, Nicholas Weaver, Stefan Savage
Botnet Judo: Fighting Spam with Itself. NDSS (2010)
Robin Sommer, Vern Paxson
Outside the Closed World: On Using Machine Learning for Network Intrusion Detection. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2010)
Chitra Muthukrishnan, Vern Paxson, Mark Allman, Aditya Akella
Using strongly typed networking to architect for tussle. HotNets (2010)

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