EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Rebekah Sowards
dblp:331/5915
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2022
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Computer networks · 1 · 1 since 2021
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
1 paper |
Network security · 87% Systems and software security · 13% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Network security
email security |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | SPFail: discovering, measuring, and remediating vulnerabilities in email sender validation · IMC 2022 |
Network security › protocol security
source authentication |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | SPFail: discovering, measuring, and remediating vulnerabilities in email sender validation · IMC 2022 |
Systems and software security
vulnerability discovery |
0.2 | 1 | 2022 | SPFail: discovering, measuring, and remediating vulnerabilities in email sender validation · IMC 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
remote detection technique · 0.6continuous measurement · 0.6
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | SPFail: discovering, measuring, and remediating vulnerabilities in email sender validationabstractEmail is an important medium for Internet communication. Secure email infrastructure is therefore of utmost importance. In this paper we discuss two software vulnerabilities discovered in libSPF2, a library used by mail servers across the Internet for email sender validation with the Sender Policy Framework (SPF). We describe a technique to remotely detect the vulnerabilities in a production mail server, and we use that technique to quantify the vulnerability of Internet mail servers. We also monitor the patch rate of affected servers by performing continuous measurement over a period of roughly four months. We identify thousands of vulnerable mail servers, some associated with high-profile mail providers. Even after private notifications and public disclosure of the vulnerabilities roughly 80% of the vulnerable servers remain vulnerable. Nathaniel Bennett, Rebekah Sowards, Casey T. Deccio |
IMC | 2 |