Monthly Archives: March 2011

The Underground Economy of Spam: A Botmaster’s Perspective of Coordinating Large-Scale Spam Campaigns

During the 4th USENIX Symposium on Large-Scale Exploits and Emerging Threats, which will take place in Boston next week, we will present our paper The Underground Economy of Spam: A Botmaster’s Perspective of Coordinating Large-Scale Spam Campaigns. It all started last … Continue reading

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The (in)security of File Hosting Services

In this post we will give a summary of our paper titled Exposing the Lack of Privacy in File Hosting Services that we are going to present in the 4th workshop of Large-scale Exploitation and Emergent threats (LEET ’11) in … Continue reading

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Short update on Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2011

Yesterday, I returned from the Financial Crypto conference. This year, FC was organized on the beautiful island of Saint Lucia. The small Caribbean island covers 620 km2 of land and it has an estimated population of 173.765 people. Two mountains, … Continue reading

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