Announcements

• No class April 1, April Fools Day (too soon to schedule talks)
• All add/drops for this course must be processed by Friday, April 17, 2009. Note: there will be no office hours this day, so please have add/drop cards signed by the end of class on this day. Also, so as to accomodate additional talks, Dr. Irani has gratiously offered to let us to use 2-3 slots in her Friday afternoon CS269S Theory Seminar for any talks that we cannot schedule during our normal time.
• No class May 18 and 20, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
• No class May 25, Memorial Day (University holiday)
• Some Tips for Giving Good Research Talks

• Course Syllabus.

Course Presentation Schedule

• April 8, Rohit Nahar, Detecting Phishing Web Pages with Visual Similarity Assessment Based on Earth Mover's Distance (EMD)
• April 10, Eric Hennigan, A Model for Delimited Information Release, with slides.
• April 13, Anh Le, Drive-By Pharming, with slides.
• April 15, Minh Doan, Click Fraud Resistant Methods for Learning Click-Through Rates
• April 17, Tara Choudhury, Phoolproof Phishing Prevention
• April 20, Di Ma, Preserving Privacy in Social Networks Against Neighborhood Attacks
• April 22, Srinivas Seshu Chippada, Protecting Users against Phishing Attacks
• April 24, Kadambari Agarwal, The Role of Reputation Systems in Reducing On-Line Auction Fraud
• April 27, Bhavin Madhani, Learning to detect phishing emails with slides
• April 29, Sushant Dewan, Web wallet: preventing phishing attacks by revealing user intentions
• May 1, Rishab Nithyanand, Undesirable and fraudulent behaviour in online auctions
• May 4, Chandan Purushothama, New Algorithms for Mining the Reputation of Participants of Online Auctions
• May 6, Guoqin Zheng, Addressing Click Fraud in Content Delivery Systems
• May 8, Noopur Vyas, Adaptive Fraud Detection
• May 11, Fabio Soldo, Large Scale Spamming Botnet Detection
• May 13, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Wherefore art thou r3579x?: anonymized social networks, hidden patterns, and structural steganography
• May 15, Qingyun Li, Netprobe: a fast and scalable system for fraud detection in online auction networks
• May 18, no class
• May 20, no class
• May 22, Ameya Lokare Pay-per-percentage of impressions: an advertising method that is highly robust to fraud
• May 25, no class
• May 27, Lowell Trott, Challenges in mining social network data: processes, privacy, and paradoxes
• May 29, Nazia Chorwadwala, Federated Identity Management
• June 1, Akanksha Gupta, Fraud detection in electronic auction
• June 3, Rahim Sonawalla, SybilLimit: A Near-Optimal Social Network Defense against Sybil Attacks
• June 5, open