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Short Bio
I received a B.A. in Astrophysics and Computer Science in 1995, and my
Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2003 from
the University of California at
Berkeley. Although
my dissertation was on novel
FPGA architectures, I also was highly interested in Computer Security,
including postulating the possibility of very fast computer worms in
2001.
In 2003, I joined ICSI, first as a postdoc and then as a staff
researcher. My primary research focus is on network security, notably
worms, botnets, and other internet-scale attacks, and network
measurement. Other areas have included both hardware acceleration and
software parallelization of network intrusion detection, defenses for
DNS resolvers, small drones, and tools for detecting ISP-introduced manipulations of
a user's network connection.
Recently I started a one man startup, Skerry Technologies, focused on engineering small, low coslt autonomous drones.
I am also teaching at UC Davis, my office is 3027 Kemper Hall.
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Recent Publications
My full CV with all publications is here.
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PharmaLeaks: Understanding the Business of Online Pharmaceutical Affiliate Programs
D. McCoy, A. Pitsillidis, G. Jordan, N. Weaver, C. Kreibich, B. Krebs, G. Voelker, S. Savage, K. Levchenko. USENIX Security Symposium, 2012, Bellevue/WA, USA.
This paper presents an in-depth look at the
business of rogue internet pharmacies.
See Brian's
article for a high-level summary.
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GQ: Practical Containment for Measuring Modern Malware Systems
C. Kreibich, N. Weaver, C. Kanich, W. Cui, V. Paxson. Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2011, Berlin, Germany.
This paper presents the malware habitat that
enabled all
of our botnet
infiltrations and spam harvests, and also
describes lessons learned from 5+ years of
building and (safely!) running one of the most
wretched hives of malware scum and villainy
around.
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Netalyzr: Illuminating The Edge Network
C. Kreibich, N. Weaver, B. Nechaev, V. Paxson. Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2010, Melbourne, Australia.
We believe that Netalyzr represents the
most comprehensive edge-network testing tool available today. Its
easy-to-use interface allows users to obtain profiles of their
connectivity with just two mouse clicks.
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Projects
Netalyzr » debug your internet
Priv3 » practical third-party privacy for the social web
Fathom » turn your browser into a measurement platform
Web Tripwires » enabling web pages to check themselves for possible modifications
Click Trajectories » end-to-end analysis of the spam value chain
CCIED » fighting internet epidemics
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