USENIX Courses

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

Wireless Attacks on Aircraft Instrument Landing Systems

Investigates vulnerabilities in aircraft instrument landing systems to wireless attacks using software-defined radio, demonstrating potential for spoofing signals and causing off-runway landings in low-visibility conditions.

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

TESSERACT - Eliminating Experimental Bias in Malware Classification Across Space and Time

Unveils TESSERACT framework to eliminate spatial and temporal biases in Android malware classification, improving real-world robustness and revealing counterintuitive performance insights.

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

Computer Security and Privacy in the Interactions Between Victim Service Providers and Human Trafficking Survivors

Exploring technology's role in victim service provider-survivor interactions, balancing trust-building and risk mitigation for human trafficking survivors' recovery and empowerment.

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

BITE - Bitcoin Lightweight Client Privacy Using Trusted Execution

Innovative approach to enhance privacy for Bitcoin lightweight clients using SGX enclaves, combining trusted execution and private information retrieval techniques for improved security without compromising performance.

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

GRIMOIRE - Synthesizing Structure while Fuzzing

Innovative fuzzing technique for programs with structured inputs, synthesizing complex structures on-the-fly without pre-configuration, outperforming existing methods and uncovering 19 memory corruption bugs.

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