USENIX Courses

Gearbox - A Hierarchical Packet Scheduler for Approximate Weighted Fair Queuing

10 ratings

Hierarchical packet scheduler for approximate weighted fair queuing, offering efficient bandwidth allocation and flow isolation in high-speed networks with low complexity and resource usage.

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

CAFault - Enhance Fault Injection Technique in Practical Distributed Systems via Abundant Fault-Dependent Configurations

1 rating

Discover CAFault, a testing framework that enhances fault injection in distributed systems by using configuration-aware testing to uncover hidden vulnerabilities and bugs.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Consent Management at Airbnb - Building a Scalable Platform for GDPR Compliance

1 rating

Explore Airbnb's Consent Management Platform, designed to address GDPR compliance and user privacy. Learn about its data model, API, and scalability for various consent scenarios.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Improving the SRE Experience for 10 Years as a Free, Open, and Automated Certificate Authority

1 rating

Explore the history of Let's Encrypt, its impact on HTTPS adoption, and how it has improved SRE experiences while issuing free TLS certificates to over 500 million websites.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Compliance and Regulatory Standards Are Not Incompatible with Modern Development Best Practices

1 rating

Debunking myths about regulatory constraints on modern software development practices, emphasizing compatibility between compliance standards and agile methodologies for competitive advantage.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Democratizing Direct-to-Cell Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks

1 rating

Explores MOSAIC system for multi-tenant LEO satellites, enabling direct 4G/5G access globally. Introduces policy-embedded tokens for simplified, secure, and flexible satellite-user interactions.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building Service Ownership Using Documentation, Telemetry, and a Chance to Make Things Better

1 rating

Explore strategies for building distributed service ownership in software teams, focusing on documentation, telemetry, and empowering teams to drive improvements in system reliability and performance.

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

Analogy Cyber Security - From 0101 to Mixed Signals

1 rating

Explores threats to sensor integrity in smart devices and their impact on system security. Discusses EMI interference, vulnerabilities in voice-controlled systems, and potential defenses for improving sensor security.

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

An Evaluation of ECG Use in Cryptography for Implantable Medical Devices and Body Area Networks

1 rating

Evaluates ECG-based cryptography for medical devices, discussing security assumptions, randomness extraction, and potential vulnerabilities in authentication protocols using physiological data.

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

GPUHammer - Rowhammer Attacks on GPU Memories are Practical

Discover the first successful Rowhammer attack on NVIDIA GPUs, demonstrating how to exploit GDDR6 memory vulnerabilities to inject bit-flips and compromise ML model accuracy by up to 80%.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Lost in Translation - Enabling Confused Deputy Attacks on EDA Software with TransFuzz

Discover MIRTL attacks that exploit EDA software translation bugs to create stealthy hardware trojans, plus TransFuzz fuzzer techniques for uncovering vulnerabilities in RTL designs.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Secure Caches for Compartmentalized Software

Discover how to protect compartmentalized software from hardware cache side-channel attacks using multi-level cache partitioning and domain-oriented security frameworks.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

LLFuzz - An Over-the-Air Dynamic Testing Framework for Cellular Baseband Lower Layers

Discover LLFuzz, a dynamic testing framework that uncovers memory corruptions in cellular baseband lower layers through over-the-air fuzzing of PDCP, RLC, MAC, and PHY protocols.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Fuzzing the PHP Interpreter via Dataflow Fusion

Discover FlowFusion, an automatic fuzzing framework that detects memory errors in PHP interpreters by merging test cases through dataflow fusion techniques.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Predictive Response Optimization - Using Reinforcement Learning to Fight Online Social Network Abuse

Discover how reinforcement learning optimizes responses to social media abuse, moving beyond binary detection to select actions that balance harm reduction with user experience impact.

• YouTube
• 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video