USENIX Courses

Zero-Downtime Rebalancing and Data Migration of a Mature Multi-Shard Platform

Explore zero-downtime techniques for rebalancing and migrating data in multi-shard platforms, focusing on MySQL binlog-based tools for load distribution and tenant isolation.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The SRE I Aspire to Be

Explore the importance of high-quality reliability measurements in SRE, learn tips for effective implementation, and understand why it's crucial for engineering work in SRE organizations.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Building a Scalable Monitoring System

Learn how to overhaul and centralize a complex monitoring system, creating a user-friendly solution that encourages developer engagement and continuous improvement.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Latency SLOs Done Right

Explore effective methods for implementing Latency Service Level Objectives (SLOs), addressing common pitfalls in latency measurement and aggregation for improved service quality tracking.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

More than Smart Speakers - Security and Privacy Perceptions of Smart Home Personal Assistants

Explores users' perceptions of security and privacy in smart home assistants, revealing incomplete mental models and limited understanding of data handling, leading to inadequate threat models and coping strategies.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Exploiting Unprotected I/O Operations in AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization

Explores vulnerabilities in AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization, demonstrating attacks on I/O operations and constructing primitives to breach VM memory encryption, highlighting security risks in emerging technology.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

On - The Lack Of - Location Privacy in Crowdsourcing Applications

Explores limitations of location privacy mechanisms in mobile crowdsourcing, revealing inadequate protection and significant utility impact. Proposes new research directions for privacy-preserving solutions.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Point Break - A Study of Bandwidth Denial-of-Service Attacks against Tor

Explores bandwidth denial-of-service attacks against Tor, demonstrating feasibility and impact on network performance through experimentation and simulation. Analyzes costs and effects of various attack strategies.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Utility-Optimized Local Differential Privacy Mechanisms for Distribution Estimation

Explores utility-optimized local differential privacy mechanisms for distribution estimation, enhancing data utility while maintaining privacy for sensitive information.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Shining Light on Internet-based Crimes Against Children

Explores Internet-based child exploitation crimes, their long-term impact on victims, and forensic tools for proactive rescue. Discusses privacy technology's role in both protection and potential misuse.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Spies Hacking Our Phones Are Going Dark, and We're All in Trouble

Explore the alarming rise of commercial spyware tools used by nation-states for covert surveillance and sabotage. Learn about Citizen Lab's methodology for uncovering abuses and the challenges posed by zero-click attacks.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

CSI NN - Reverse Engineering of Neural Network Architectures Through Electromagnetic Side Channel

Reverse engineering neural networks through electromagnetic side channels, revealing architecture details like activation functions, layers, neurons, and weights using non-invasive techniques on ARM Cortex-M3 microcontrollers.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Shining Light on Internet-based Crimes Against Children

Explores Internet-based child exploitation crimes, their long-term impact on victims, and forensic tools for proactive rescue. Discusses privacy technology's role in both protection and potential misuse.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Embracing the Hack - A Better Strategy for Team-Defense

Explore how embracing "hacky" solutions in cybersecurity can enhance enterprise defense. Learn innovative strategies and custom detection techniques to gain an advantage over attackers.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Evaluating the Contextual Integrity of Privacy Regulation - Parents' IoT Toy Privacy Norms Versus COPPA

Explores alignment between COPPA regulations and parents' privacy expectations for smart toys, using contextual integrity surveys to quantify regulatory effectiveness and identify nuanced privacy concerns.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk