Reading Group on Web Security and Privacy

This reading group is a forum for discussion about research topics in the area of web security and privacy. Participation is voluntary; interested students should get in touch with Prof. Christoph von Praun who organizes the reading group.

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Date and Place

Wednesday, 11am in Q316

Topics and Schedule

Date	Topic	Presenter(s)	Materials
Jan 25, 2012	Browser reverse firewall	Christian Schäff
May 25, 2011	A critical look at classification schemes for privacy risks	Elke Roth-Mandutz
May 18, 2011	Content Security Policy	Samuel Walz	[www] [Slides]
May 11, 2011	Software Metrics for JavaScript	Christian Schäff
May 4, 2011	Soltani Ashkan: Tracking the Trackers, The Wall Street Journal, 2010	Elke Roth-Mandutz	[Article] [Report] [Slides]
Apr 20, 2011	Arnold Roosendaal: Facebook Tracksand Traces Everone: Like This!, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), Tilburg University, Netherlands, SSRN Technical Report 2011.	Christoph von Praun	[Article]
Mar 09, 2011	Gaurav Aggarwal Elie Bursztein, Collin Jackson, Dan Boneh: An Analysis of Private Browsing Modes in Modern Browsers. Usenix Security 2010.	Christoph von Praun	[Article]
Mar 02, 2011	Report on the OWASP Summit	Heiko Richler and Elke Roth-Mandutz	[Summit website] [Slides]
Feb 24, 2011	Emily Fortuna, Owen Anderson, Luis Ceze, Susan Eggers: A Limit Study of JavaScript Parallelism . IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, 2010.	Christoph von Praun	[Article] [Slides]
Dec 16, 2010	Dongseok Jang, Ranjit Jhala, Sorin Lerner, Hovav Shacham: An Empirical Study of Privacy-Violating Information Flows in JavaScript Web Applications, Conference on Computer and communications security (CCS), 2010.	Elke Roth-Mandutz	[Article] [Slides]
Dec 9, 2010	Alberto Trivero: Abusing HTML5 structured client-side storage, 2008.	Sebastian Kugler	[Article] [Slides]
Dec 2, 2010	Marco Cova, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna: Detection and Analysis of Drive-by-Download Attacks and Malicious JavaScript Code, International conference on World wide web (WWW), 2010.	Sebastian Schlund	[Article] [Slides]
Nov 25, 2010	Gregor Richards, Sylvain Lebresne, Brian Burg, Jan Vitek: An Analysis of the Dynamic Behavior of JavaScript Programs. Conference on Programming language design and implementation (PLDI), 2010.	Mario Brittig	[Article] [Slides]