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January 21, 2010
Our paper “Detection and Analysis of Drive-by-Download Attacks and Malicious JavaScript Code” has been accepted for WWW 2010.

November 11, 2009
Our paper “Efficient Detection of Split Personalities in Malware” has been accepted for NDSS 2010.

October 2, 2009
Our research on drive-by-download attacks is featured on MIT's Technology Review. Read more...

August 25, 2009
Our paper “Analyzing and Detecting Malicious Flash Advertisements” has been accepted for ACSAC 2009.
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July 10, 2009
Our paper “Your Botnet is My Botnet: Analysis of a Botnet Takeover” has been accepted for ACM CCS 2009.
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May 2009
Our paper “ClearShot: Eavesdropping on Keyboard Input from Video” is featured on Scientific American.
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February 7, 2009
I have been awarded a Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship.
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Bio

I am a graduate student with the Computer Security Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before that, I worked as a research assistant in the SRA division of ITC-irst. I graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Bologna, where I was a member of the Collegio Superiore.

My research interests include most aspects of computer security, with an emphasis on web security, vulnerability analysis, electronic voting security, and intrusion detection.

I am currently looking for an academic position. See my job application material for more information.

Contact Info

Marco Cova
(805) 893-4394
marco@cs.ucsb.edu

My public key (generated 2009-02-02)
Fingerprint: 14860AB630AECBDF0516CBC39726947710C55F69

Computer Security Group
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110 USA