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Jean-Michel Picod
dblp:145/2051
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2016
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 2
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
2 papers |
Web and mobile security · 61% Malware analysis · 30% Network security · 9% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Web and mobile security › malicious advertising
malicious advertisement detection |
0.2 | 1 | 2016 | Cloak of Visibility: Detecting When Machines Browse a Different Web · IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2016 |
Malware analysis
pay-per-install |
0.2 | 1 | 2016 | Investigating Commercial Pay-Per-Install and the Distribution of Unwanted Software · USENIX Security Symposium 2016 |
Information retrieval
search engines |
0.1 | 1 | 2016 | Cloak of Visibility: Detecting When Machines Browse a Different Web · IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2016 |
Information retrieval › web search
search result manipulation |
0.1 | 1 | 2016 | Cloak of Visibility: Detecting When Machines Browse a Different Web · IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2016 |
Network security
malware propagation |
0.1 | 1 | 2016 | Investigating Commercial Pay-Per-Install and the Distribution of Unwanted Software · USENIX Security Symposium 2016 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
browsing profile comparison · 0.5IP blacklist analysis · 0.5measurement study · 0.2
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Cloak of Visibility: Detecting When Machines Browse a Different WebabstractThe contentious battle between web services and miscreants involved in blackhat search engine optimization and malicious advertisements has driven the underground to develop increasingly sophisticated techniques that hide the true nature of malicious sites. These web cloaking techniques hinder the effectiveness of security crawlers and potentially expose Internet users to harmful content. In this work, we study the spectrum of blackhat cloaking techniques that target browser, network, or contextual cues to detect organic visitors. As a starting point, we investigate the capabilities of ten prominent cloaking services marketed within the underground. This includes a first look at multiple IP blacklists that contain over 50 million addresses tied to the top five search engines and tens of anti-virus and security crawlers. We use our findings to develop an anti-cloaking system that detects split-view content returned to two or more distinct browsing profiles with an accuracy of 95.5% and a false positive rate of 0.9% when tested on a labeled dataset of 94,946 URLs. We apply our system to an unlabeled set of 135,577 search and advertisement URLs keyed on high-risk terms (e.g., luxury products, weight loss supplements) to characterize the prevalence of threats in the wild and expose variations in cloaking techniques across traffic sources. Our study provides the first broad perspective of cloaking as it affects Google Search and Google Ads and underscores the minimum capabilities necessary of security crawlers to bypass the state of the art in mobile, rDNS, and IP cloaking. Luca Invernizzi, Kurt Thomas, Alexandros Kapravelos, Oxana Comanescu, Jean-Michel Picod, Elie Bursztein |
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy | 5 |
| 2016 | 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 |
USENIX Security Symposium | 4 |