USENIX Courses

Never Been KIST - Tor’s Congestion Management Blossoms with Kernel-Informed Socket Transport

Explores Tor's congestion issues, proposing KIST algorithm to improve network performance by optimizing socket management using real-time kernel information, reducing latency and increasing throughput.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

GraphX - Graph Processing in a Distributed Dataflow Framework

Explore GraphX, a graph processing framework built on Apache Spark, offering performance comparable to specialized systems while enabling broader computational capabilities and fault tolerance.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer Network

Explore eclipse attacks on Bitcoin's P2P network, their impact on mining and consensus, and proposed countermeasures to enhance network security while maintaining decentralization.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Control-Flow Bending - On the Effectiveness of Control-Flow Integrity

Explores Control-Flow Bending attacks on Control-Flow Integrity defenses, revealing vulnerabilities in fine-grained CFI implementations and demonstrating the necessity of shadow stacks for enhanced security against memory corruption.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Named Data Networking

Explore Named Data Networking's potential to replace TCP, its architectural advantages, and data-centric security approach in this insightful presentation by networking experts.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Release Engineering Best Practices at Google

Explore Google's release engineering practices, including bazel usage, branching strategies, and automated systems. Learn about disciplines, philosophies, and techniques for improving release processes.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Efficiently Backing Up Terabytes of Data with PgBackRest

Explore efficient PostgreSQL backup solutions with PgBackRest, featuring checksums, compression, parallel transfer, and more. Learn about its design, features, and practical applications for large-scale databases.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Multi-Person Localization via RF Body Reflections

RF-based indoor localization system that tracks multiple users' positions and gestures through walls, using wireless signal reflections off bodies. Can even locate static users by detecting breathing movements.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Protecting Privacy of BLE Device Users

Explores BLE device privacy vulnerabilities and introduces BLE-Guardian, a system protecting user privacy by controlling device discovery and access without modifying existing devices or protocols.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

K-Fingerprinting - A Robust Scalable Website Fingerprinting Technique

Explores k-fingerprinting, a robust website fingerprinting technique using random decision forests, demonstrating high accuracy in identifying visited web pages through encrypted connections.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

UNVEIL - A Large-Scale, Automated Approach to Detecting Ransomware

Automated approach to detect ransomware through dynamic analysis, focusing on file tampering and desktop changes. Improves detection of evasive ransomware unnoticed by traditional antimalware solutions.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs

Explores model extraction attacks on machine learning systems, demonstrating vulnerabilities in publicly accessible ML interfaces and proposing potential countermeasures to protect confidential models.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Virtual U - Defeating Face Liveness Detection by Building Virtual Models from Your Public Photos

Innovative approach to bypass face authentication using 3D models created from social media photos, exploiting virtual reality to simulate liveness and fool security systems.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Building a Billion User Load Balancer

Discover Facebook's innovative load balancing techniques for handling billions of users, improving performance, managing capacity, and enhancing reliability at a global scale.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

MySQL Automation at Facebook Scale

Explore Facebook's MySQL automation systems for managing thousands of servers across data centers, including design, architecture, and real-world challenges faced at massive scale.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk