Year

Venue

Title

2025

conf/sp

Supporting Human Raters with the Detection of Harmful Content Using Large Language Models.

Kurt Thomas Patrick Gage Kelley David Tao Sarah Meiklejohn Owen Vallis Shunwen Tan Blaz Bratanic Felipe Tiengo Ferreira Vijay Kumar Eranti Elie Bursztein

2025

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"We are not Future-ready": Understanding AI Privacy Risks and Existing Mitigation Strategies from the Perspective of AI Developers in Europe.

Alexandra Klymenko Stephen Meisenbacher Patrick Gage Kelley Sai Teja Peddinti Kurt Thomas Florian Matthes

2025

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Integrating Large Language Models into Security Incident Response.

Diana Kramer Lambert Rosique Ajay Narotam Elie Bursztein Patrick Gage Kelley Kurt Thomas Allison Woodruff

2024

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Understanding Help-Seeking and Help-Giving on Social Media for Image-Based Sexual Abuse.

Miranda Wei Sunny Consolvo Patrick Gage Kelley Tadayoshi Kohno Tara Matthews Sarah Meiklejohn Franziska Roesner Renee Shelby Kurt Thomas Rebecca Umbach

2024

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Poisoning Web-Scale Training Datasets is Practical.

Nicholas Carlini Matthew Jagielski Christopher A. Choquette-Choo Daniel Paleka Will Pearce Hyrum S. Anderson Andreas Terzis Kurt Thomas Florian Tramèr

2023

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"Millions of people are watching you": Understanding the Digital-Safety Needs and Practices of Creators.

Patrawat Samermit Anna Turner Patrick Gage Kelley Tara Matthews Vanessia Wu Sunny Consolvo Kurt Thomas

2023

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"There will be less privacy, of course": How and why people in 10 countries expect AI will affect privacy in the future.

Patrick Gage Kelley Celestina Cornejo Lisa Hayes Ellie Shuo Jin Aaron Sedley Kurt Thomas Yongwei Yang Allison Woodruff

2022

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SoK: A Framework for Unifying At-Risk User Research.

Noel Warford Tara Matthews Kaitlyn Yang Omer Akgul Sunny Consolvo Patrick Gage Kelley Nathan Malkin Michelle L. Mazurek Manya Sleeper Kurt Thomas

2021

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"Why wouldn't someone think of democracy as a target?": Security practices & challenges of people involved with U.S. political campaigns.

Sunny Consolvo Patrick Gage Kelley Tara Matthews Kurt Thomas Lee Dunn Elie Bursztein

2021

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SoK: Hate, Harassment, and the Changing Landscape of Online Abuse.

Kurt Thomas Devdatta Akhawe Michael D. Bailey Dan Boneh Elie Bursztein Sunny Consolvo Nicola Dell Zakir Durumeric Patrick Gage Kelley Deepak Kumar Damon McCoy Sarah Meiklejohn Thomas Ristenpart Gianluca Stringhini

2021

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Designing Toxic Content Classification for a Diversity of Perspectives.

Deepak Kumar Patrick Gage Kelley Sunny Consolvo Joshua Mason Elie Bursztein Zakir Durumeric Kurt Thomas Michael D. Bailey

2020

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Sunrise to Sunset: Analyzing the End-to-end Life Cycle and Effectiveness of Phishing Attacks at Scale.

Adam Oest Penghui Zhang Brad Wardman Eric Nunes Jakub Burgis Ali Zand Kurt Thomas Adam Doupé Gail-Joon Ahn

2019

conf/ccs

Five Years of the Right to be Forgotten.

Theo Bertram Elie Bursztein Stephanie Caro Hubert Chao Rutledge Chin Feman Peter Fleischer Albin Gustafsson Jess Hemerly Chris Hibbert Luca Invernizzi Lanah Kammourieh Donnelly Jason Ketover Jay Laefer Paul Nicholas Yuan Niu Harjinder Obhi David Price Andrew Strait Kurt Thomas Al Verney

2019

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Protecting accounts from credential stuffing with password breach alerting.

Kurt Thomas Jennifer Pullman Kevin Yeo Ananth Raghunathan Patrick Gage Kelley Luca Invernizzi Borbala Benko Tadek Pietraszek Sarvar Patel Dan Boneh Elie Bursztein

2018

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Data Breaches: User Comprehension, Expectations, and Concerns with Handling Exposed Data.

Sowmya Karunakaran Kurt Thomas Elie Bursztein Oxana Comanescu

2018

conf/cns

SYBILFUSE: Combining Local Attributes with Global Structure to Perform Robust Sybil Detection.

Peng Gao Binghui Wang Neil Zhenqiang Gong Sanjeev R. Kulkarni Kurt Thomas Prateek Mittal

2017

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Data Breaches, Phishing, or Malware?: Understanding the Risks of Stolen Credentials.

Kurt Thomas Frank Li Ali Zand Jacob Barrett Juri Ranieri Luca Invernizzi Yarik Markov Oxana Comanescu Vijay Eranti Angelika Moscicki Daniel Margolis Vern Paxson Elie Bursztein

2017

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Understanding the Mirai Botnet.

Manos Antonakakis Tim April Michael D. Bailey Matt Bernhard Elie Bursztein Jaime Cochran Zakir Durumeric J. Alex Halderman Luca Invernizzi Michalis Kallitsis Deepak Kumar Chaz Lever Zane Ma Joshua Mason Damian Menscher Chad Seaman Nick Sullivan Kurt Thomas Yi Zhou

2016

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Picasso: Lightweight Device Class Fingerprinting for Web Clients.

Elie Bursztein Artem Malyshev Tadek Pietraszek Kurt Thomas

2016

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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-André 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 Damon McCoy

2016

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Cloak of Visibility: Detecting When Machines Browse a Different Web.

Luca Invernizzi Kurt Thomas Alexandros Kapravelos Oxana Comanescu Jean-Michel Picod Elie Bursztein

2015

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Trends and Lessons from Three Years Fighting Malicious Extensions.

Nav Jagpal Eric Dingle Jean-Philippe Gravel Panayiotis Mavrommatis Niels Provos Moheeb Abu Rajab Kurt Thomas

2015

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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

2014

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Consequences of Connectivity: Characterizing Account Hijacking on Twitter.

Kurt Thomas Frank Li Chris Grier Vern Paxson

2014

conf/ccs

Dialing Back Abuse on Phone Verified Accounts.

Kurt Thomas Dmytro Iatskiv Elie Bursztein Tadek Pietraszek Chris Grier Damon McCoy

2013

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Practical Comprehensive Bounds on Surreptitious Communication over DNS.

Vern Paxson Mihai Christodorescu Mobin Javed Josyula R. Rao Reiner Sailer Douglas Lee Schales Marc Ph. Stoecklin Kurt Thomas Wietse Z. Venema Nicholas Weaver

2013

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Trafficking Fraudulent Accounts: The Role of the Underground Market in Twitter Spam and Abuse.

Kurt Thomas Damon McCoy Chris Grier Alek Kolcz Vern Paxson

2012

conf/ccs

Manufacturing compromise: the emergence of exploit-as-a-service.

Chris Grier Lucas Ballard Juan Caballero Neha Chachra Christian J. Dietrich Kirill Levchenko Panayiotis Mavrommatis Damon McCoy Antonio Nappa Andreas Pitsillidis Niels Provos M. Zubair Rafique Moheeb Abu Rajab Christian Rossow Kurt Thomas Vern Paxson Stefan Savage Geoffrey M. Voelker

2011

conf/sp

Design and Evaluation of a Real-Time URL Spam Filtering Service.

Kurt Thomas Chris Grier Justin Ma Vern Paxson Dawn Song

2010

conf/ccs

@spam: the underground on 140 characters or less.

Chris Grier Kurt Thomas Vern Paxson Chao Michael Zhang