Here you may find some of my conference papers, journal papers, books and book chapters, technical reports, IETF Drafts, and patents. Comments are most welcome.

Refereed Papers

Towards Automatic Discovery of Deviations in Binary Implementations with Applications to Error Detection and Fingerprint Generation.

David Brumley, Juan Caballero, Zhenkai Liang, James Newsome, and Dawn Song. To appear in Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium, Aug 2007.

Exploiting Network Structure for Proactive Spam Mitigation.

Shobha Venkataraman, Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck, Patrick Haffner, and Dawn Song. To appear in Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium, Aug 2007.

Creating Vulnerability Signatures Using Weakest Pre-conditions.

David Brumley, Hao Wang, Somesh Jha, and Dawn Song. To appear in Proceedings of Computer Security Foundations Symposium, Jul 2007.

Dynamic Spyware Analysis.

Manuel Egele, Christopher Kruegel, Engin Kirda, Heng Yin, and Dawn Song. To appear in Proceedings of USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Jun 2007.

Distributed Evasive Scan Techniques and Countermeasures.

Min Gyyng Kang, Juan Caballero, and Dawn Song. To appear in Proceedings of International Conference on Detection of Intrusions & Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA), Jun 2007.

Multi-Dimensional Range Query over Encrypted Data.

Elaine Shi, John Bethencourt, Hubert Chan, Dawn Song, and Adrian Perrig. To appear in Proceedings of IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium, May 2007.

Sweeper: a Lightweight End-to-End System for Defending against Fast Worms.

Joseph Tucek, James Newsome, Shan Lu, Chengdu Huang, Spiros Xanthos, David Brumley, Yuanyuan Zhou, and Dawn Song. In Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), Mar 2007.

FiG: Automatic Fingerprint Generation.

Juan Caballero,Shobha Venkataraman, Pongsin Poosankam, Min Gyung Kang, Dawn Song and Avrim Blum. In Proceedings of NDSS, Feb 2007.

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.

Black-box Anomaly Detection---Is it Utopian?

Shobha Venkataraman, Juan Caballero, Dawn Song, Avrim Blum, Jennifer Yates. In Proceedings of HotNets, Nov 2006.

Replayer: Automatic Protocol Replay by Binary Analysis.

James Newsome, David Brumley, Jason Franklin, and Dawn Song. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 2006.

Secure Hierarchical In-Network Aggregation in Sensor Networks.

Haowen Chan, Adrian Perrig, and Dawn Song. ACM CCS, November 2006.

Thwarting Signature Learning by Training Maliciously.

James Newsome, Brad Karp, and Dawn Song. In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium On Recent Advances In Intrusion Detection (RAID 2006), September 2006.

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.

Towards Attack-Agnostic Defenses.

David Brumley and Dawn Song. In the Proceedings of the First Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HOTSEC 06).

Towards Automatic Generation of Vulnerability Signatures

David Brumley, James Newsome, Dawn Song, Hao Wang, and Somesh Jha. In the Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2006.

New Constructions and Applications for Private Stream Search (Extended Abstract)

John Bethencourt, Dawn Song,