Publications

Conference & Journal Publications [By Area] [DBLP]

1. On the Infeasibility of Modeling Polymorphic Shellcode.
   Yingbo Song, Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou , Angelos D. Keromytis, and Salvatore J. Stolfo. To appear in the Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). October/November 2007, Alexandria, VA. Also available as Columbia University Computer Science Department Technical Report CUCS-007-07. (Acceptance rate: 18.1%)
   
   
2. A Study of Malcode-Bearing Documents
   Weijen Li, Salvatore Stolfo, Angelos Stavrou, Elli Androulaki, and Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 4th GI International Conference on Detection of Intrusions & Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA), pp. 231 - 250. July 2007, Lucerne, Switzerland. (Acceptance rate: 21%)
   
   
3. From STEM to SEAD: Speculative Execution for Automated Defense.
   Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, Gabriela F. Cretu, and Angelos D. Keromytis.
   In Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX 2007), pp. 219-232, June 2007, Santa Clara, CA. An earlier draft of this work is available as Columbia University CS Tech Report CUCS-004-07 (Acceptance rate: 18.75%)
   
   
4. Network Security as a Composable Service
   Stelios Sidiroglou, Angelos Stavrou, and Angelos D. Keromytis. In the Proceedings of the IEEE Sarnoff Symposium. May 2007, Princeton, NJ. (Invited paper)
   
   
5. Countering DDoS Attacks with Multi-path Overlay Networks
   Angelos Stavrou and Angelos D. Keromytis. In the Information Assurance Technology Analysis Center (IATAC) Information Assurance Newsletter (IAnewsletter), vol. 9, no. 3, November 2006. (Invited paper, based on the CCS 2005 paper.)[pdf]
   
   
6. W3Bcrypt: Encryption as a Stylesheet
   Angelos Stavrou, Michael E. Locasto, and Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), pp. 349-364, June 6-9, 2006, Singapore. [pdf(305KB)] [ps (1.2MB)]
   Also available as Columbia University Computer Science Department Technical Report CUCS-003-06.
   
   
7. Countering DoS Attacks With Stateless Multipath Overlays
   Angelos Stavrou and Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), pp. 249 - 259. November 2005, Alexandria, VA. (Acceptance rate: 15.2%)
   [pdf (500KB)] [ps (1.9MB)].
   
   
8. gore: Routing-Assisted Defense Against DDoS Attacks
   Stephen T. Chou, Angelos Stavrou, John Ioannidis, and Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 8th Information Security Conference (ISC). September 2005, Singapore. (Acceptance rate: 14%)
   [pdf (5.4MB)] [pdf image compressed (251KB)] [ps (1MB)].
   
   
9. WebSOS: An Overlay-based System For Protecting Web Servers From Denial of Service Attacks
   Angelos Stavrou, Debra L. Cook, William G. Morein, Angelos D. Keromytis, Vishal Misra, and Dan Rubenstein. In Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks, special issue on Web and Network Security, vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 781 - 807. August 2005.
   [pdf (255KB)] [ps (1.4MB)].
   
   
10. MOVE: An End-to-End Solution To Network Denial of Service
    Angelos Stavrou, Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason Nieh, Vishal Misra, and Dan Rubenstein. In Proceedings of the Internet Society (ISOC) Symposium on Network and Distributed Systems Security (SNDSS), pp. 81 - 96. February 2005, San Diego, CA.
    (Acceptance rate: 12.9%). [pdf (3.9MB)] [ps (1.2MB)].
    
    
11. Content distribution for seamless transmission
    Edward G. Coffman Jr., Andreas Constantinides, Dan Rubenstein, Bruce Shepherd, Angelos Stavrou In SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review 32(2): 31-32 (2004)
    [pdf (936 KB)].
    
    
12. A Pay-per-Use DoS Protection Mechanism For The Web
    Angelos Stavrou, John Ioannidis, Angelos D. Keromytis, Vishal Misra, and Dan Rubenstein.
    In Proceedings of the Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) Conference.
    June 2004, Yellow Mountain, China. LNCS Volume 3089/2004, pp. 120-134, ISBN: 3-540-22217-0 [pdf (195KB)] [ps (1.2M)].
    
    
13. A Lightweight, Robust, P2P System to Handle Flash Crowds
    Angelos Stavrou, Dan Rubenstein, Sambit Sahu.
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), special issue on Service Overlay Networks, Volume 22, Number 1, January 2004.
    [pdf 226KB] [ps 421KB].
    
    
14. Using Graphic Turing Tests to Counter Automated DDoS Attacks Against Web Servers
    William G. Morein, Angelos Stavrou, Debra L. Cook, Angelos D. Keromytis, Vishal Misra, Dan Rubenstein.
    In Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Washington, DC, October 2003.
    [pdf (225K)][ps (884K)] [ps.gz (421K)].
    
    
15. A Lightweight, Robust P2P System to Handle Flash Crowds
    Angelos Stavrou, Dan Rubenstein and Sambit Sahu.
    In Proceedings of IEEE ICNP 2002, Paris, France, November, 2002.
    [Proceedings Version ps (252K)] [Proceedings Version ps.gz (65K)] [Proceedings Version pdf (143K)]
    An earlier version is available as Columbia Technical Report EE020321-1, February, 2002. [Tech Report ps (508K)] [Tech Report ps.gz (109K)] [Tech Report pdf (242K)].
    
    

1. Data Sanitization: Improving the Forensic Utility of Anomaly Detection Systems
   Gabriela F. Cretu, Angelos Stavrou, Salvatore J. Stolfo, Angelos D. Keromytis. To appear in the Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep). June 2007, Edinburgh, UK.
   
   
2. Bridging the Network Reservation Gap Using Overlays
   Angelos Stavrou, David Turner, Angelos D. Keromytis, and Vassilis Prevelakis. In the Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Information Assurance for Middleware Communications (IAMCOM). January 2007, Bangalore, India.
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3. Dark Application Communities
   Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, and Angelos D. Keromytis. In Proceedings of the 15th New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW 2006). September 2006, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. [pdf] [ps]
   
   

• Quantifying Application Behavior Space for Detection and Self-Healing.
  Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, Gabriela F. Cretu, Angelos D. Keromytis and Salvatore J. Stolfo. Tech Report CUCS-017-06. Department of Computer Science, Columbia University. April 2006.
  
  
• Exploiting the Structure in DHT Overlays for DoS Protection
  Angelos Stavrou, Angelos D. Keromytis, and Dan Rubenstein. Columbia University Computer Science Department Technical Report CUCS-019-04, May 2004.