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Damon McCoyAssistant Professor
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My research focuses on empirically measuring the security and privacy of technology systems and their intersections with society. Some of my current projects explore the socio-economics of e-crime, censorship evasion, anonymous communication, cyber-physical systems. More generally, I am interested in exploring and improving the security and privacy of large-scale systems.
| Recent Publications |
| Investigating Commercial Pay-Per-Install and the Distribution of Unwanted Software Kurt Thomas, Juan A. Elices Crespo, Ryan Rasti, Jean-Michel Picod, Cait Phillips, Marc-Andre Decoste, Chris Sharp, Fabio Tirelo, Ali Tofigh, Marc-Antoine Courteau, Lucas Ballard, Robert Shield, Nav Jagpal, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Niels Provos, Elie Bursztein, and Damon McCoy Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Austin, TX, August 2016. | |
| You've Got Vulnerability: Exploring Effective Vulnerability Notifications Frank Li, Zakir Durumeric, Jakub Czyz, Mohammad Karami, Michael Bailey, Damon McCoy, Stefan Savage, and Vern Paxson Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Austin, TX, August 2016. | |
| A Security Analysis of an In Vehicle Infotainment and App Platform Sahar Mazloom, Mohammad Rezaeirad, Aaron Hunter, and Damon McCoy 10th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT), Austin, TX , August 2016. | |
| Deterring Financially Motivated Cybercrime Zachary K. Goldman and Damon McCoy Journal of National Security Law and Policy, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2016. | |
| Profiling Underground Merchants Based on Network Behavior Srikanth Sundaresan, Damon McCoy, Sadia Afroz, and Vern Paxson Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), Toronto, Canada, June 2016. | |
| Stress Testing the Booters: Understanding and Undermining the Business of DDoS Services Mohammad Karami, Youngsam Park and Damon McCoy Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Montreal, Canada, April 2016. | |
| Characterizing Long-tail SEO Spam on Cloud Web Hosting Services Xiaojing Liao, Chang Liu, Damon McCoy, Elaine Shi and Raheem Beyah Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Montreal, Canada, April 2016. | |
| Understanding Craigslist Rental Scams Youngsam Park, Damon McCoy and Elaine Shi Proceedings of Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference (FC), Barbados, February 2016. | |
| Stressing Out: Bitcoin "Stress Testing" Khaled Baqer, Danny Yuxing Huang, Damon McCoy and Nicholas Weaver Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research (BITCOIN), Barbados, February 2016. | |
| Do You See What I See: Differential Treatment of Anonymous Users Sheharbano Khattak, David Fifield, Sadia Afroz, Mobin Javed, Srikanth Sundaresan, Vern Paxson, Steven J. Murdoch, and Damon McCoy Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, February 2016. | |
| Fuzzing E-mail Filters with Generative Grammars and N-Gram Analysis Sean Palka and Damon McCoy 9th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT 15), Washington, D.C., August 2015 | |
| Framing Dependencies Introduced by Underground Commoditization Kurt Thomas, Danny Huang, David Wang, Elie Bursztein, Chris Grier, Thomas J. Holt, Christopher Kruegel, Damon McCoy, Stefan Savage, Giovanni Vigna Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, Amsterdam, NL, June 2015 | |
| Ad Injection at Scale: Assessing Deceptive Advertisement Modifications Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein, Chris Grier, Grant Ho, Nav Jagpal, Alexandros Kapravelos, Damon McCoy, Antonio Nappa, Vern Paxson, Paul Pearce, Niels Provos, Moheeb Abu Rajab IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland 2014), San Jose, CA, May 2015. | |
| Dynamic Phishing Content Using Generative Grammars Sean Palka and Damon Mccoy Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Security Testing, Graz, Austria, April 2015 | |
| "I Saw Images I Didn't Even Know I Had:" Understanding User Perceptions of Cloud Storage Privacy Jason W. Clark, Peter Snyder, Damon McCoy, Chris Kanich Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, Seoul, Korea, April 2015 | |
| Dialing Back Abuse on Phone Verified Accounts Kurt Thomas, Dima Iatskiv, Elie Bursztein, Tadek Pietraszek, Chris Grier, Damon McCoy Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Scotsdale, Arizona, November 2014 | |
| Characterizing Large-Scale Click Fraud in ZeroAccess Paul Pearce, Vacha Dave, Chris Grier, Kirill Levchenko, Saikat Guha, Damon McCoy, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Scotsdale, Arizona, November 2014 | |
| Search + Seizure: The Effectiveness of Interventions on SEO Campaigns David Wang, Matthew Der, Mohammad Karami, Lawrence Saul, Damon McCoy, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 2014 | |
| The Check is in the Mail: Monetization of Craigslist Buyer Scams Jackie Jones and Damon McCoy IEEE eCrime Research Summit, Birmingham, AL, September 2014 | |
| Empirically Characterizing Domain Abuse and the Revenue Impact of Blacklisting Neha Chachra, Damon McCoy, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker Proceedings of the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), State College, PA, June 2014. | |
| Doppelgänger Finder: Taking Stylometry To The Underground Sadia Afroz, Aylin Caliskan Islam, Ariel Stolerman, Rachel Greenstadt, Damon McCoy IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland 2014), San Jose, CA, May 2014. | |
| Constructing and Analyzing Criminal Networks Hamed Sarvari, Ehab Abozinadah, Alex Mbaziira, Damon McCoy IEEE International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2014), San Jose, CA, May 2014. | |
| Botcoin: Monetizing Stolen Cycles Danny Yuxing Huang, Hitesh Dharmdasani, Sarah Meiklejohn, Vacha Dave, Kirill Levchenko, Alex C. Snoeren, Stefan Savage, Nicholas Weaver, Chris Grier, and Damon McCoy Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, February 2014. | |
| Scambaiter:
Understanding Targeted Nigerian Scams on Craigslist Youngsam Park, Jackie Jones, Damon McCoy, Elaine Shi and Markus Jakobsson Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, February 2014. | |
| Full Publication List |
| Students |
| PhD | ||
| Parnian Najafi Borazjan | ||
| Jackie Jones | ||
| Sahar Mazloom | ||
| Mohammad Rezaeirad | ||
| Graduated | ||
| Mohammad Karami (PhD 2016) Google | ||
| Sean Palka (PhD 2015) Booz Allen Hamilton | ||
| Jason Clark (PhD 2014) CMU SEI | ||
| Hitesh Dharmdasani (MS 2013) FireEye |
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