Past Projects

Networking Security Using Machine Learning

• See here.

Source Transformation for Software and Systems Security

• Efficient and Accurate Detection of Integer-based Attacks.
  David Brumley, Tzi-cker Chiueh, Rob Johnson, Huijia Lin, and Dawn Song. In Proceedings of NDSS, Feb 2007.

• Privtrans: Automatic Privilege Separation
  David Brumley and Dawn Song. In USENIX Security Symposium 2004.

Networking Security

• Streaming Algorithm Design
  
  New Streaming Algorithms for Superspreader Detection
  Shobha Venkataraman, Dawn Song, Phil Gibbons, and Avrim Blum. In Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium, Feb 2005.

• Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Defense
  
  FIT: Fast Internet Traceback
  Abraham Yaar, Adrian Perrig, and Dawn Song. In IEEE InfoCom, March 2005.

  SIFF: An Endhost Capability Mechanism to Mitigate DDoS Flooding Attacks
  Abraham Yaar, Adrian Perrig, and Dawn Song. In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2004, May 2004.

  Pi: A Path Identification Mechanism to Defend against DDoS Attacks.
  Avi Yaar, Adrian Perrig, and Dawn Song. In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2003.

  Advanced and Authenticated Marking Schemes for IP Traceback
  D. Song and A. Perrig. In IEEE Infocomm 2001.

Host-based Intrusion Detection

• Behavioral Distance Measurement Using Hidden Markov Models.
  Debin Gao, Michael K. Reiter and Dawn Song In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2006), Hamburg, Germany, September 2006.

• Behavioral Distance for Intrusion Detection
  Debin Gao, Mike Reiter and Dawn Song. Symposium on Recent Advance in Intrusion Detection (RAID), Sep 2005.

• Gray-box Extraction of Execution Graphs for Anomaly Detection
  Debin Gao, Mike Reiter, and Dawn Song. In ACM Computer and Communication Security (CCS) 2004 .

• Graybox Program Tracking for Hostbased Intrusion Detection
  Debin Gao, Mike Reiter, and Dawn Song. In USENIX Security Symposium 2004.

Secure Sensor Networks

• Secure Hierarchical In-Network Aggregation in Sensor Networks.
  Haowen Chan, Adrian Perrig, and Dawn Song. ACM CCS, November 2006.

• The Sybil attack in sensor networks: analysis & defenses.
  James Newsome, Runting Shi, Dawn Song, and Adrian Perrig. In 3rd International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2004), April 2004

• GEM: Graph Embedding for Routing and Data-Centric Storage in Sensor Networks without Geographic Information.
  James Newsome and Dawn Song. In ACM SenSys (Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems), November 2003.

• SIA: Secure Information Aggregation in Sensor Networks.
  Bartosz Przydatek, Dawn Song, and Adrian Perrig. In ACM SenSys (Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems), November 2003.

• Random Key Predistribution Schemes for Sensor Networks
  Haowen Chan, Adrian Perrig, and Dawn Song. In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2003.