USENIX Courses

CSHER - A System for Compact Storage with HE-Retrieval

Innovative system for compact storage using homomorphic encryption, addressing high storage overhead while maintaining data confidentiality. Demonstrates practical performance in multi-cloud environments.

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

DScope - A Cloud-Native Internet Telescope

Explore DScope, a scalable cloud-based Internet telescope for monitoring malicious behavior. Learn about its design, implementation, and advantages over traditional methods in capturing cloud-targeting traffic.

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

VulChecker - Graph-based Vulnerability Localization in Source Code

Explore VulChecker, a tool for precise vulnerability detection in source code using graph-based neural networks. Learn about its innovative approach to locating and classifying security flaws.

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

Checking Passwords on Leaky Computers - A Side Channel Analysis of Chrome's Password Leak Detect Protocol

Explore side-channel vulnerabilities in Chrome's password leak detection, revealing potential risks to user privacy and security through microarchitectural attacks on cryptographic implementations.

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

Squirrel - A Scalable Secure Two-Party Computation Framework for Training Gradient Boosting Decision Tree

Scalable framework for secure two-party GBDT training on vertically split datasets, featuring novel cryptographic techniques for privacy-preserving machine learning in distributed environments.

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

Long Live The Honey Badger - Robust Asynchronous DPSS and its Applications

Explore robust asynchronous Dynamic-committee Proactive Secret Sharing (DPSS) protocols that handle network churn and faults efficiently, with insights on high-threshold DPSS and batch-amortized schemes.

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

Neuropots - Realtime Proactive Defense against Bit-Flip Attacks in Neural Networks

Innovative defense strategy against bit-flip attacks in neural networks using "honey neurons" to lure attackers, enabling efficient detection and model recovery in safety-critical AI applications.

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

Prime Match - A Privacy-Preserving Inventory Matching System

Privacy-preserving inventory matching system for financial stock trading, enabling efficient order matching while maintaining client confidentiality. Introduces innovative secure linear comparison protocol for computing minimums with malicious security.

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

Understanding Security Implications of Exposed Cloud Services through Automated Capability Inference

Explores security risks of over-privileged cloud credentials in mobile apps, revealing potential data attacks and new threat vectors through analysis of 1.3 million apps across major cloud platforms.

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

Gradient Obfuscation Gives a False Sense of Security in Federated Learning

Explores vulnerabilities in federated learning, demonstrating how gradient obfuscation techniques may not provide adequate privacy protection. Proposes a new attack framework and challenges existing evaluation methods.

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

Reversing, Breaking, and Fixing the French Legislative Election E-Voting Protocol

Análisis de seguridad del protocolo de voto electrónico utilizado en las elecciones legislativas francesas de 2022, revelando vulnerabilidades, proponiendo soluciones y extrayendo lecciones para futuras implementaciones.

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

TAP - Transparent and Privacy-Preserving Data Services

Explore a novel system for transparent, privacy-preserving data services. Learn about TAP's tree structure, zero-knowledge proofs, and verifiable operations, addressing limitations in existing approaches.

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

Attacks are Forwarded - Breaking the Isolation of MicroVM-based Containers Through Operation Forwarding

Explores vulnerabilities in microVM-based containers, demonstrating operation forwarding attacks that can break isolation, exploit host kernel vulnerabilities, and exhaust resources on public cloud platforms.

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

Account Verification on Social Media - User Perceptions and Paid Enrollment

Explores user perceptions of social media verification, focusing on Twitter's changes. Combines survey data and account analysis to reveal misunderstandings and shifts in verified user demographics.

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

RIDAS - Real-Time Identification of Attack Sources on Controller Area Networks

Real-time method for identifying attack sources on vehicle networks, enhancing cybersecurity through error handling and sequential ECU inspection. Robust against environmental changes and attacker evasion.

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