CCS'09 paper on automatic protocol reverse-engineering

At this week's CCS conference we presented a technique for automating protocol reverse-engineering from executable programs and its application to botnet C&C protocols.

• J. Caballero, P. Poosankam, C. Kreibich, and D. Song. Dispatcher: Enabling Active Botnet Infiltration using Automatic Protocol Reverse-Engineering. 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Chicago, IL, USA. [PDF, BibTeX]

This is joint work with the BitBlaze team at UC Berkeley. MIT Technology Review has published an article on our work.

IMC '09 Paper on Characterizing Residential Broadband Traffic

Last week at IMC we presented initial work on characterizing residential broadband traffic. The paper is:

• Gregor Maier, Anja Feldmann, Vern Paxson, Mark Allman. On Dominant Characteristics of Residential Broadband Internet Traffic. ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference, November 2009.

IMC '09 Paper on Calibrating Enterprise Packet Trace Measurements

Last week we presented a paper at IMC on calibrating a set of packet traces taken by simultaneously tapping multiple switch ports within a large enterprise. We present a set of techniques, the pitfalls of not calibrating such packet traces and a quite initial traffic breakdown from LBNL's enterprise network. The paper is:

• Boris Nechaev, Vern Paxson, Mark Allman, Andrei Gurtov. On Calibrating Enterprise Switch Measurements. ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference, November 2009.