The Security Reading Group will meet in Soda 606 at 1pm this Friday, 3 February, to talk about the following three projects: "Automated Web Patrol with Strider HoneyMonkeys: Finding Web Sites That Exploit Browser Vulnerabilities" (NDSS 2006) http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?type=Technical%20Report&id=926 "A Crawler-based Study of Spyware on the Web" (NDSS 2006) http://www.cs.washington.edu/~gribble/papers/spycrawler.pdf SiteAdvisor (CodeCon 2006) www.siteadvisor.com All three projects have the same broad idea: build a crawler that searches the Web for "evil" web sites, then report the results. What each project does with this idea, however, is different. We will talk about the promise and limitations of the underlying idea and each project's take on it. (Disclosure: One of the authors of SiteAdvisor is a friend of mine.) If you're in the area, feel free to stop by.