| April 2026 | We're hosting ACNS 2026 at Stony Brook in June! Join us! |
| July 2025 | Multiple papers accepted at CCS, RAID, and SecWeb. Congratulations to Robin, Chris, Narong, and all our collaborators! |
| January 2025 | Papers accepted at WWW 2025 and USENIX Security 2025. Congratulations to Muzammil, Abi, Xigao, and Johnny! |
| September 2024 | IMC 2024 accepted our paper on ENS dropcatching. Congratulations to Muzammil and Zhengyu! |
| August 2024 | Our USENIX Security paper on web application fingerprinting won a Distinguished Paper Award! |
| | eCrime 2024 accepted our paper on Web3 typosquatting. Congratulations to Muzammil! |
| May 2024 | Paper on using deception to protect web applications accepted at DIMVA 2024. Congrats to Billy! |
| February 2024 | Our 2022 paper on Certificate Transparency Bots won the NSA Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity paper award! |
| September 2023 | Two papers accepted at IEEE S&P 2024 and NDSS 2024. Congratulations to Chris, Xigao, and Brian! |
| June 2023 | Two papers accepted at USENIX Security 2023. Congratulations to Babak and Chris! |
| January 2023 | Two papers accepted at WWW 2023. Congratulations to Xigao, Babak, and Johnny! |
| December 2022 | Papers on debloating and cryptocurrency scams were accepted at CODASPY and NDSS. Congratulations Babak and Xigao! |
| August 2022 | Paper on continuous extension fingerprinting (in collaboration with UIC) was accepted at CCS. Congratulations Kostas and Panos! |
| May 2022 | Paper on Certificate Transparency bots was accepted to USENIX Security 2022. Congratulations to Brian and Johnny! |
| February 2022 | Paper on extension fingerprinting (in collaboration with UIC) was accepted to USENIX Security 2022. Congratulations Kostas, Panos, and Soroush! |
| January 2022 | Paper on post-publication title changes accepted at WWW 2022. Congratulations to Xingzhi and Brian! |
| November 2021 | Our work on MITM phishing kits got the 3rd place at the CSAW 2021 Applied Research Competition! |
| October 2021 | Paper on mobile-sandbox evasions accepted to NDSS 2022. Congratulations to Brian and Babak! |
| August 2021 | Paper on residual trust accepted at IEEE S&P 2022. Congratulations to Johnny! |
| | Year-long study on MITM phishing kits accepted at CCS 2021. Congratulations to Brian and Babak! |
| February 2021 | Paper on deception-augmented authentication accepted at ASIACCS 2021. Congratulations to Tim and Johnny! |
| | Paper on characterization of web bots accepted at IEEE S&P 2021. Congratulations to Xigao and Babak! |
| January 2021 | Paper accepted from collaboration with CMU at WWW 2021. Congratulations to Meng and Brian! |
| December 2020 | Paper accepted at USENIX Security 2021. Congratulations to Pierre and Oleksii! |
| | Paper accepted at NDSS 2021. Congratulations to Brian! |
| April 2020 | ONR funded my YIP proposal on monitoring web application updates. Thank you ONR! |
| | Two papers accepted at DIMVA! Congratulations to Babak, Pierre, and Oleksii! |
| March 2020 | NSF funded my CAREER proposal on ensuring the integrity of web content! Thank you NSF! |
| | I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. |
| February 2020 | Paper accepted at IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2020. Congratulations Brian! |
| July 2019 | Paper accepted at RAID 2019. Congratulations Tim and Najmeh! |
| May 2019 | Paper accepted at DIMVA 2019. Congrats Pierre! |
| April 2019 | Two papers accepted at USENIX Security 2019!! Congratulations to Babak, Pierre, and Oleksii! |
| | Paper accepted at AsiaCCS 2019! Congratulations to Najmeh! |
| January 2019 | Paper accepted at WWW 2019! |
| | Amazon funded our proposal on using cloud services to detect bots. Thank you Amazon! |
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November 2018 | Paper accepted at NDSS 2019! |
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September 2018 | NSF funded our proposal on understanding and detecting malicious web bots. Thank you NSF! |
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December 2017 | Three papers accepted at WWW 2018! |
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October 2017 | Our S&P 2017 paper on malware sandbox evasion is a finalist in the CSAW 2017 competition! |
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August 2017 | Three papers accepted at CCS 2017! |
| | Paper with Tim accepted at ACSAC 2017! |
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March 2017 | Two papers accepted at IEEE S&P 2017! |
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| WIRED wrote about our work on technical support scams. |
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| Our paper on technical support scams received a "Distinguished Paper Award" at NDSS 2017! |
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Jan 2017 | I am the publicity chair of RAID 2017. Don't forget to submit your cool work! |
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Dec 2016 | Two papers accepted at WWW 2017!! |
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Oct 2016 | Papers accepted at EuroS&P and NDSS! |
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Aug 2016 | I will be co-chairing eCrime 2017 with Damon McCoy! Consider submitting your best cybercrime work. |
| Jul 2016 | Our PETS paper got an Honorable Mention Award at PETS 2016 |
| Jun 2016 | Our Dagstuhl Workshop on Online Privacy and Web Transparency was accepted! |
| Jun 2016 | NSF funded our two proposals on mobile web security and malware. Thank you NSF! |
| Mar 2016 | ONR funded our proposals on tripwires and honeypots. Thank you ONR! |
| Dec 2015 | Paper with Oleksii and Sharique accepted at WWW 2016! |
| Oct 2015 | Paper with Zubair accepted at NDSS 2016! |
| Jul 2015 | Paper with Oleksii accepted at PETS 2016! |
| Jan 2015 | Our paper got accepted at WWW 2015! |
| Oct 2014 | Two papers accepted at NDSS 2015! |