USENIX Courses

SelfDefend - LLMs Can Defend Themselves against Jailbreaking in a Practical Manner

Discover how LLMs can protect themselves from jailbreaking attacks using SelfDefend, a shadow stack-inspired defense framework that works across open and closed-source models.

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

Waltzz - WebAssembly Runtime Fuzzing with Stack-Invariant Transformation

Discover Waltzz, a greybox fuzzing framework for WebAssembly runtimes using stack-invariant transformations to uncover security vulnerabilities and bugs effectively.

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

TapTrap - Animation-Driven Tapjacking on Android

Discover TapTrap, a zero-permission Android attack exploiting UI animations to bypass security defenses and execute unauthorized actions through deceptive user interactions.

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

Posthammer - Pervasive Browser-based Rowhammer Attacks with Postponed Refresh Commands

Discover Posthammer, a JavaScript-based Rowhammer attack that postpones memory refresh commands to trigger bit flips on 86% of DDR4 devices through browser exploitation techniques.

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

Onions Got Puzzled - On the Challenges of Mitigating Denial-of-Service Problems in Tor Onion Services

Uncover critical vulnerabilities in Tor's client puzzle system through OnionFlation attacks that exploit DoS mitigation mechanisms in onion services.

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

GPUHammer - Rowhammer Attacks on GPU Memories are Practical

Discover the first successful Rowhammer attack on NVIDIA GPUs, revealing GDDR6 vulnerabilities that can inject bit-flips and compromise ML model accuracy by up to 80%.

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

Websites' Global Privacy Control Compliance at Scale and over Time

Discover how websites comply with California's Global Privacy Control requirements through large-scale analysis of 11,708 sites and privacy strings over time.

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

Towards Lifecycle Unlearning Commitment Management - Measuring Sample-level Unlearning Completeness

Discover a novel framework for measuring machine unlearning effectiveness that addresses privacy concerns by quantifying sample-level completeness without costly retraining.

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

A Formal Analysis of Apple's iMessage PQ3 Protocol

Discover formal verification methods for Apple's quantum-resistant iMessage PQ3 protocol through detailed security analysis using TAMARIN prover and post-quantum cryptography principles.

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

Branch Privilege Injection - Compromising Spectre v2 Hardware Mitigations by Exploiting Branch Predictor Race Conditions

Uncover Branch Privilege Injection vulnerabilities that exploit race conditions in Intel CPU branch predictors to bypass Spectre v2 mitigations and leak kernel memory.

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

Breaking the Layer Barrier - Remodeling Private Transformer Inference with Hybrid CKKS and MPC

Discover a breakthrough framework combining homomorphic encryption and secure multi-party computation for private Transformer inference with 21x communication reduction.

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

SNI5GECT - A Practical Approach to Inject aNRchy into 5G NR

Discover SNI5GECT, a framework for real-time 5G message sniffing and targeted attack injection without rogue base stations, achieving 80% sniffing accuracy and 70-90% injection success.

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

Systematic Evaluation of Randomized Cache Designs against Cache Occupancy

Explore systematic evaluation of 5 randomized cache designs against occupancy attacks, revealing security gaps and proposing uniform benchmarking for fair performance comparison.

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

General-Purpose f-DP Estimation and Auditing in a Black-Box Setting

Discover new black-box methods for statistically assessing f-Differential Privacy without prior algorithm knowledge, featuring complete trade-off curve estimation and violation detection.

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

Harness - Transparent and Lightweight Protection of Vehicle Control on Untrusted Android Automotive Operating System

Discover Harness, a lightweight security framework protecting vehicle control systems from Android Automotive OS vulnerabilities through hypervisor isolation.

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