Usenix security 2020 Papers and proceedings are freely available to everyone once the event begins. • Refereed paper submissions due: Thursday, June 11, 2020, 11:59 pm AoE Thursday, June 18, 2020, 11:59 pm AoE (Extended) • Early reject notification: July 24, 2020 • Rebuttal Period: August 31– September 2, 2020 • Notification to authors: September 11, 2020 • Final papers due: October 13, 2020 Fall Deadline JavaScript (JS) engine vulnerabilities pose significant security threats affecting billions of web browsers. 2 and 5. To this end, patch presence tests are proposed with the capability of independently investigating patch application status on a target without source code. No abstract available. Important: The USENIX Security Symposium moved to multiple submission deadlines last year and included changes to the review process and submission policies. , by allowing usage of insecure protocols). 11 WPA2 protocol is widely used across the globe to protect network connections. of USENIX Security (2019), pp. Attack surface reduction through the removal of unnecessary application features and code is a promising technique for improving security without incurring any additional overhead. The USENIX Security Symposium is excited to have an in-person conference after two years of virtual conferences. , an Android mobile. Shuitao Gan, State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing Chao Zhang, Institute of Network Science and Cyberspace, Tsinghua University; Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology The 29th USENIX Security Symposium will be held August 12–14, 2020. 321-338. How photos USENIX is committed to Open Access to the research presented at our events. For USENIX Security '20, the first deadline will be May 15, 2019. In a model extraction attack, an adversary steals a copy of a remotely deployed machine learning model, given oracle prediction access. Their wide attack surface, exposed via both the system call interface and the peripheral interface, is often found to be the most direct attack vector to compromise an OS kernel. , matching the predictions of the remote victim classifier on any input. table of contents in dblp; Thanks to those who joined us for the 13th USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET '20). In May 2019, a new class of transient execution attack based on Meltdown called microarchitectural data sampling (MDS), was disclosed. USENIX Security brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others to share and explore the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks. Thanks to those who joined us for the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium. To address this shortcoming, USENIX Security will run for the first time an optional artifact evaluation process, inspired by similar efforts in software engineering and other areas of science. Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) use hardware-based isolation to guard sensitive data from conventional monolithic OSes. Along the USENIX is committed to Open Access to the research presented at our events. In November 2020, Antrim County, Michigan published unofficial election results that misstated totals in the presidential race and other contests by up to several thousand votes. title = {The Ballot is Busted Before the Blockchain: A Security Analysis of Voatz, the First Internet Voting Application Used in {U. USENIX Security 2020 Keywords privacy-preserving machine learning deep learning secure inference neural architecture search Contact author(s) pratyush @ berkeley edu raluca popa @ berkeley edu History 2020-05-07: revised 2020-01-17: received See all versions Short URL https://ia. February 15, 2020, will be the final submission deadline for papers that appear in USENIX Security '20. Different from coverage-based fuzzing whose goal is to increase code coverage for triggering more bugs, DGF is designed to check whether a piece of potentially buggy code (e. Detailed information is available at USENIX Security Publication Model Changes. We believe that better understanding the efficacy of model extraction attacks is paramount to designing secure MLaaS systems. Unsolicited calls are one of the most prominent security issues facing individuals today. ISBN: 978-1-939133 USENIX is committed to Open Access to the research presented at our events. , Tor, are vulnerable to various website fingerprinting (WF) attacks, which allows attackers to perceive user privacy on these networks. FOCI gathers researchers and practitioners from technology, law, and policy who are working on means to study, detect, or circumvent practices that inhibit free and open communications on the Internet. We prove the security of both protocols in the standard semi-honest model. Minor revision. The security of FPGAs is a crucial topic, as any vulnerability within the hardware can have severe consequences, if they are used in a secure design. org Proceedings of the 29th USENIX Security Symposium August 12–14, 2020 Sponsored by ISBN 978-1-939133-17-5 29th USENIX 8/9/2020 10:23:19 PM Proceedings of the 29th USENIX Security Symposium August 12–14, 2020 Sponsored by ISBN 978-1-939133-17-5 29th USENIX 8/9/2020 10:23:19 PM We evaluate the security and performance of our implementation for RISC-V synthesized on an FPGA. Crossref. at the 2016 USENIX Security Symposium, where practical attacks for various models were shown. However, current prediction systems compromise one party's privacy: either the user has to send sensitive inputs to the service provider for classification, or the service provider must store its proprietary neural networks on the user's device. USENIX Security brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others to share and explore the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks. USENIX is committed to Open Access to the research presented at our events. Please review this information prior to registering for the event. Recent work has developed SDN solutions to collect device contexts and enforce access control at a central controller. Many prior studies have shown external attacks such as adversarial examples that tamper the integrity of DNNs using maliciously crafted inputs. An investigation of phishing awareness and education over time: When and how to best remind users Benjamin Reinheimer, Lukas Aldag, Peter Mayer, Mattia Mossano, Reyhan Duezguen, The 34th USENIX Security Symposium will take place on August 13–15, 2025, at the Seattle Convention Center in Seattle, WA, USA. USENIX Security ’21 Program Co-Chairs On behalf of USENIX, we, the program co-chairs, want to welcome you to the proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium. MDS enables adversaries to leak secrets across security domains by collecting data from shared CPU resources such as data cache, fill buffers, and store buffers. USENIX Association 2020, ISBN 978-1-939133-17-5. The first submission deadline for USENIX Security ’21 will occur in spring 2020. The IEEE 802. While such isolation strengthens security guarantees, it also introduces a semantic gap between the TEE on the one side and the conventional OS and applications on the other. Unfortunately, kernels and drivers were developed under a security model that implicitly trusts connected devices. We thus opted to re-crawl the same dataset (from April to June 2020) and we repeated the experiments: while more apps do adopt this new security mechanism, a significant portion of them still do not take fully advantage of it (e. Terms and Conditions. Matt trained people as an independent trainer for Global Journalist Security) in digital safety USENIX is committed to Open Access to the research presented at our events. The protocol, which is specified on more than three-thousand pages and has received various patches over the years, is extremely complex and therefore hard to analyze. Donky does not impede the runtime of in-domain computation. 397-414. However, this leaves the cache vulnerable to side-channel attacks, where inherent timing differences in shared cache behavior are exploited to infer information on the victim’s execution patterns, ultimately leaking private information such as a secret key. An attacker with physical access can observe an unencrypted address bus and extract fine-grained memory access patterns of the victim. USENIX Security final papers deadline: Monday, June 1, 2020, 11:59 pm EDT Monday, June 22, 2020, 11:59 pm EDT The artifact evaluation process will take about two weeks. 3 days ago · 29th USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 2020, August 12-14, 2020. WOOT aims to present a broad picture of offense and its contributions, bringing together researchers and practitioners in all areas of computer security. To help, we developed RLBox, a framework that minimizes the burden of converting Firefox to securely and efficiently use untrusted code. Recently, directed grey-box fuzzing (DGF) becomes popular in the field of software testing. Credits * Overlap with Previous Papers policy adapted from USENIX Security 2021 * Conflict of Interest policy adapted from USENIX Security 2020 * Early Rejection policy adapted from IEEE Symposium on Security and USENIX is committed to Open Access to the research presented at our events. Aug 14, 2024 · 2026: 35th USENIX Security Symposium: August 12, 2026 – August 14, 2026 | Baltimore, MD, United States : 2025: 34th USENIX Security Symposium: August 13, 2025 For high-level Autonomous Vehicles (AV), localization is highly security and safety critical. To protect end-users and software from known vulnerabilities, it is crucial to apply security patches to affected executables timely. Previous approaches to shielding guest VMs either suffer from insufficient protection or result in suboptimal performance due to frequent VM exits (especially Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee, Carnegie Mellon University; Lan Gao, Georgia Institute of Technology; Stephanie Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jodi Forlizzi, Carnegie Mellon University; Sauvik Das, Carnegie Mellon University In addition to our member discounts, USENIX offers several discounts to help you to attend USENIX Security '22 in person. We show that frequency smoothing prevents access pattern leakage attacks by passive persistent adversaries in a new formal security model. The 2020–2021 reviewing cycles happened in the midst of global turmoil with invitations to the PC occuring Today’s cloud tenants are facing severe security threats such as compromised hypervisors, which forces a strong adversary model where the hypervisor should be excluded out of the TCB. view. This attack was introduced by Tramèr et. Similarly, security testing drivers is challenging as input must cross the hardware/software barrier. Detailed information is available on the USENIX Security Publication Model Changes web page at www USENIX is committed to Open Access to the research presented at our events. Federal Elections}, booktitle = {29th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 20)}, year = {2020}, isbn = {978-1-939133-17-5}, pages = {1535--1553}, USENIX is committed to Open Access to the research presented at our events. In this paradigm, an IoT device is usually managed under a particular IoT cloud designated by the device vendor, e. In the meantime, most importantly, stay well. You may register for USENIX Security '20 and the co-located events. This paper exposes a new vulnerability and introduces a corresponding attack, the NoneXistent Name Server Attack (NXNSAttack), that disrupts and may paralyze the DNS system, making it difficult or impossible for Internet users to access websites, web e-mail, online video chats, or any other online resource. In this paper, we show that the location privacy of an autonomous vehicle may be compromised by software side-channel attacks if localization software shares a hardware platform In this paper, we conduct the first comprehensive security analysis on all wireless OBD-II dongles available on Amazon in the US in February 2019, which were 77 in total. Distinguished Paper Award Winner and Second Prize winner of the 2020 Internet Defense Prize Abstract: Despite an extensive anti-phishing ecosystem, phishing attacks continue to capitalize on gaps in detection to reach a significant volume of daily victims. al. Drivers expect faulty hardware but not malicious attacks. The 28th USENIX Security Symposium will be held August 12–14, 2020, in Boston, MA, USA. USENIX Security brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, The full program will be available in May 2020. Goals. S}. Any video, audio, and/or slides that are posted after the event are also free and open to everyone. August 2020. In a USENIX Security 2020 paper titled "Cached and Confused: Web Cache Deception in the Wild", researchers presented the first systematic exploration of the attack over 340 websites. The Symposium will accept submissions four times yearly, in winter, spring, summer, and winter. 2809 pages. In this paper, we present the first large-scale, longitudinal analysis of unsolicited calls to a honeypot of up to 66,606 lines over 11 months. Index terms have been assigned to the content through auto-classification. The 29th USENIX Security Symposium will be held August 12–14, 2020. One direct threat to it is GPS spoofing, but fortunately, AV systems today predominantly use Multi-Sensor Fusion (MSF) algorithms that are generally believed to have the potential to practically defeat GPS spoofing. Blind and Human: Exploring More Usable Audio CAPTCHA Designs Valerie Fanelle, Sepideh Karimi, Aditi Shah, Bharath Subramanian, and Sauvik Das, Georgia Institute of Technology In a USENIX Security 2020 paper titled "Cached and Confused: Web Cache Deception in the Wild", researchers presented the first systematic exploration of the attack over 340 websites. We taxonomize model extraction attacks around two objectives: accuracy, i. , AND KROLIK, A. Matt is a well-known security researcher, operational security trainer, and data journalist who founded & leads CryptoHarlem, impromptu workshops teaching basic cryptography tools to the predominately African American community in upper Manhattan. MVP: Detecting Vulnerabilities using Patch-Enhanced Vulnerability Signatures Yang Xiao, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and School . , Google's "Find My Device") enable the device owner to secure or recover a lost device, but they can be easily circumvented with physical access (e. Modern multi-core processors share cache resources for maximum cache utilization and performance gains. Jan 17, 2020 · Published elsewhere. In total, it found 105 new security bugs, of which 41 are confirmed by CVE. New poster submissions of unpublished works will be also accepted. We integrate PANCAKE into three key-value stores used in production clusters, and demonstrate its practicality: on standard benchmarks, PANCAKE achieves 229× better throughput than non-recursive Path ORAM USENIX is committed to Open Access to the research presented at our events. The protocols are built upon several state-of-the-art cryptographic primitives such as lattice-based additively homomorphic encryption, distributed oblivious RAM, and garbled circuits. August 12–14, 2020 978-1-939133-17-5 Open access to the Proceedings of the 29th USENIX Security Symposium is sponsored by USENIX. In response, the developers adopted the Signal protocol and then continued to advertise their application as being suitable for use by higher-risk users. IoT clouds facilitate the communication between IoT devices and users, and authorize users’ access to their devices. Poison Over Troubled Forwarders: A Cache Poisoning Attack Targeting DNS Forwarding Devices Xiaofeng Zheng, Tsinghua University; Qi An Xin Technology Research Institute; USENIX Security '20 submissions deadlines are as follows: Spring Quarter: Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 8:00 pm EDT; Summer Quarter: Friday, August 23, 2019, 8:00 pm EDT; Fall Quarter: Friday, November 15, 2019, 8:00 pm EDT; Winter Quarter: Saturday, February 15, 2020, 8:00 pm EDT; All papers that are accepted by the end of the winter submission 29th USENIX Security Symposium. The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks. Kernel-mode drivers are challenging to analyze for vulnerabilities, yet play a critical role in maintaining the security of OS kernels. It will be held on August 11, 2020. The key is a novel concept of speculation exposure: The program is instrumented to simulate speculative execution in software by forcefully executing the code paths that could be triggered due to mispredictions, thereby making the speculative memory accesses visible to integrity With safety in mind, the upcoming 14th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '20) will take place as a virtual event. Co-located events include SOUPS 2020, WOOT '20, CSET '20, ScAINet '20, and FOCI '20. While fuzzing is a prevalent technique for finding such vulnerabilities, there have been few studies that leverage the recent advances in neural network language models (NNLMs). To systematically perform the analysis, we design and implement an automated tool DongleScope that dynamically tests these dongles from all possible attack stages on a real forward to seeing you online at the USENIX Security 2020 and hopefully again in person in 2021. Registration Fees. Our key insight is that kernel driver fuzzers frequently execute similar test cases in a row, and that their performance can be improved by dynamically creating multiple checkpoints while executing test cases and skipping parts of test cases using the created If global health concerns persist, alternative arrangements will be made on a case-by-case basis, in line with USENIX guidance. Many companies provide neural network prediction services to users for a wide range of applications. 29th USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 2020, August 12-14, 2020. This state-of-the-art approach for WCD detection injects markers into websites and checks for leaks into caches. , performing well on the underlying learning task, and fidelity, i. We are, therefore, offering an opportunity to authors of papers from the 2020 and 2021 USENIX Security Symposium to present their papers as posters this year in Boston. August 12–14, 2020 • Boston, MA, USA 29th USENIX Security Symposium Symposium Overview The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitio - ners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has become the new norm for enterprise networks, but BYOD security remains a top concern. Smartphone loss affects millions of users each year and causes significant monetary and data losses. WOOT provides a forum for high-quality, peer-reviewed work discussing tools Aug 14, 2024 · 2026: 35th USENIX Security Symposium: August 12, 2026 – August 14, 2026 | Baltimore, MD, United States : 2025: 34th USENIX Security Symposium: August 13, 2025 Thanks to those who joined us for the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium. The full program will be available in May 2020. Who's Calling? Characterizing Robocalls through Audio and Metadata Analysis. The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks. 289-305. We also evaluate the performance on x86 and show why our new design is more secure than Intel MPK. Security of machine learning is increasingly becoming a major concern due to the ubiquitous deployment of deep learning in many security-sensitive domains. Autonomous vehicles are becoming increasingly popular, but their reliance on computer systems to sense and operate in the physical world introduces new security risks. Aug 12, 2020 · SEC '23: Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Conference on Security Symposium Anonymity networks, e. SOUPS 2020 Awards Distinguished Paper Award. cr/2020/050 License CC BY USENIX is committed to Open Access to the research presented at our events. All USENIX Security '22 attendees must abide by the event's Terms and Conditions and USENIX's Coronavirus/COVID-19 Health and Safety Plan. This paper shows how an attacker can break the confidentiality of a hardware enclave with Membuster, an off-chip attack based on snooping the memory bus. usenix. SpecFuzz is the first tool that enables dynamic testing for speculative execution vulnerabilities (e. In Proc. CSET is a forum for researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and industry to explore the significant challenges within the science of cyber security. , string operations) really contains a bug. FANS: Fuzzing Android Native System Services via Automated Interface Analysis Baozheng Liu and Chao Zhang, Institute of Network Science and Cyberspace, We present Visor, a system that provides confidentiality for the user's video stream as well as the ML models in the presence of a compromised cloud platform and untrusted co-tenants. Srdjan Čapkun, ETH Zurich Franziska Roesner, University of Washington USENIX Security ’20 Program Co-Chairs SOUPS brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human-computer interaction, security, and privacy. Antrim subsequently issued a series of corrections, and the certified presidential results were confirmed by a hand count. Please make sure that at least one of the authors is reachable to answer questions in a timely manner. Thanks to those who joined us for the 10th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI '20). Support USENIX and our commitment to Open Access. , Spectre). From Needs to Actions to Secure Apps? The Effect of Requirements and Developer Practices on App Security. Google Scholar [15] The New York Times (January 18 2020). Google Scholar [21] HILL, K. Our approach is closely aligned with the PLDI artifact evaluation process. Retrofitting isolation can be labor-intensive, very prone to security bugs, and requires critical attention to performance. x introduced a Secure Connections Only (SCO) mode, under which a BLE device can only accept secure pairing such as Passkey Entry and Numeric Comparison from an initiator, e. IEEE SSP 2020, 2020. To defeat security threats such as man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 4. The 28th USENIX Security This paper proposes lightweight virtual machine checkpointing as a new primitive that enables high-throughput kernel driver fuzzing. The goal of the artifact evaluation process is two-fold. g. In August 2020, a security analysis reported severe vulnerabilities that invalidated Bridgefy's claims of confidentiality, authentication, and resilience. Context-aware security, which enforces access control based on dynamic runtime context, is a promising approach. USENIX Security brings together researchers, practitioners, [SAC 2020], to provide Diffie-Hellman-like implicit authentication and secrecy guarantees. Device tracking services (e. e. Google Scholar SEC'20: Proceedings of the 29th USENIX Conference on Security Symposium. USENIX Security '20 has four submission deadlines. Despite wide-spread anecdotal discussion of the problem, many important questions remain unanswered. , Philips bulbs are managed under Philips Hue cloud. The 34th USENIX Security Symposium will take place on August 13–15, 2025, at the Seattle Convention Center in Seattle, WA, USA. 2020: Conference Name: 29th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 20) Date Published: 08/2020: Publisher: USENIX Association: URL: https://www. We hope you enjoyed the event. We hope you enjoyed the event. Prepublication versions of the accepted papers from the spring submission deadline are available below. , turn on airplane mode). 29th USENIX Security Symposium. Recent software debloating techniques consider an application's entire lifetime when extracting its code requirements, and reduce the attack surface accordingly. A different cup of TI? SEC'20: 29th USENIX Conference on Security SymposiumAugust 12 - 14, 2020. dmlut nzsgx heki xtq abi ixxai sxgjuf lpzgf qiigbaia omjx