Research Spotlight

UCSB Researchers Hijacked the Mebroot Botnet

A research team lead by Prof. Kevin Almeroth, Christopher Kruegel, and
Giovanni Vigna, at the University of California at Santa Barbara hijacked
the Mebroot botnet for about a month and used it to study drive-by
downloading. Drive-by downloading involves hacking into a legitimate site
to covertly install malicious software on visitors’ machines or redirect
them to another site.
The researchers managed [...]

Tiwari, Mysore, and Prof. Sherwood win Best Paper at PACT 2009

To deal with the complexities of modern software, computer scientists are
increasingly reliant on special software tools such as data-race detectors,
memory bounds checkers, and data flight recorders. However, these tools can
make the programs being tested run hundreds to thousands of times slower
than normal. In their paper on “Quantifying the Potential for Program
Analysis Peripherals”, UCSB students Mohit [...]

UCSB Security Group: Spying on Typing

UCSB Security Group’s research on spying on typing featured in
Scientific American
The research of a team led by Professor Giovanni Vigna and composed
of Marco Cova (PhD student) and Davide Balzarotti (Post-Doc at the
time, and now Professor at Eurecom) was featured in the May 2009
Edition of Scientific American. The research mentioned is described
in the paper “ClearShot: Eavesdropping [...]

UCSB Cloud Computing to be included in Ubuntu Distribution

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UCSB Cloud Computing to be included in Ubuntu Distribution
Cloud computing systems provide access to large pools of data and
computational resources, and large companies from Google, to IBM, to
Microsoft are investing heavily in the idea. While companies compete
to attract users to their clouds, a team of UCSB researchers have
created a breakthrough technology that will allow anyone [...]

CS@UCSB Research in the News

The research at UC Santa Barbara does not only lead to articles in great conferences and journals, it also has real world impact. Recently, two projects carried out at the Computer Science Department at UCSB received wide-spread media attention.
One project is Eucalyptus, which stands for Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful [...]

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