Μάθημα : Ανακοινώσεις Τμήματος Πληροφορικής ΟΠΑ

Την Πέμπτη 3/9 στις 11πμ, έχουμε τη χαρά να μας δώσει ομιλία στο σεμινάριο του τμήματός μας ο Μιχάλης Φαλούτσος, Καθηγητής στο Πανεπιστήμιο Riverside στην Καλιφόρνια.

Παρακαλώ να διαφημίσετε την ομιλία και σε φοιτητές και μεταδιδακτορικούς ερευνητές ή όποιον άλλο μπορεί να ενδιαφέρεται. Ευχαριστώ. 

Μέρα/Ώρα: Πέμπτη 3/9, ώρα 11:00

Τόπος: T105, Κτήριο Τροίας

Διαδικτυακή παρακολούθηση μέσω Teams:

Michalis Faloutsos talk | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams

Title: Preemptive Security: taking away the first mover advantage of the hackers

Abstract: Can we do better than just wait 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:

1. We develop, C2Store, an authoritative source of C2 servers, to provide the most comprehensive information on C2 servers by synthesizing a plethora of sources.

1. 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%).

1. We develop GeekMan, a systematic human-inspired approach to identify similar usernames across online platforms focusing on techno-geek platforms. Our method outperforms previous methods with a Precision of 81-86%. We see our approach as a fundamental research capability, which we made publicly available on GitHub and as a platform.

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.

Short Bio: Michalis Faloutsos is a faculty member at the Computer Science Dpt. 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 26K citations, an h-index of 65, and an i10-index of 161. His work has been supported by many NSF, DHS, ARL, and DAPRA grants, for a cumulative amount of more than $20M. 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.