LEET'09 paper on orchestration of spamming campaigns

At yesterday's LEET'09 workshop we presented an inside look at how spammers orchestrate their campaigns, based on a 10-month infiltration of the Storm botnet.

• C. Kreibich, C. Kanich, K. Levchenko, B. Enright, G. Voelker, V. Paxson, and S. Savage. Spamcraft: An Inside Look At Spam Campaign Orchestration. Second USENIX Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET '09), 2009, Boston, USA. (bib)

This is joint work with UCSD as part of our CCIED effort.

User-Oriented Networking Talk at FIND PI Meeting

Slides from a talk at the NSF FIND PI meeting last week:

• Mark Allman, Michael Rabinovich, Nicholas Weaver. User-Oriented Networking. NSF FIND PI Meeting, April 2009.

New Paper on Efficient Application Placement in Large WWW Apps

The following paper is about techniques for aiding systems that swap large applications in and out of use (e.g., generic platforms for web applications). It will be presented at WWW this month:

• Zakaria Al-Qudah, Hussein Alzoubi, Mark Allman, Michael Rabinovich, Vincenzo Liberatore. Efficient Application Placement in a Dynamic Hosting Platform, International World Wide Web Conference, April 2009.

New Paper on Ephemeral Port Selection

The following paper on the efficacy of various ways to generate obscure ephemeral ports appears this month:

• Mark Allman. Comments On Selecting Ephemeral Ports, ACM Computer Communication Review, April 2009.