Niels Provos
Google Publications
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Investigating Commercial Pay-Per-Install and the Distribution of Unwanted Software
Kurt Thomas, Juan Antonio Elices Crespo, Ryan Rasti, Jean-Michel Picod, Cait Phillips, Marc-André (MAD) Decoste, Chris Sharp, Fabio Tirelo, Ali Tofigh, Marc-Antoine Courteau, Lucas Ballard, Robert Shield, Nav Jagpal, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Panos Mavrommatis, Niels Provos, Elie Bursztein, Damon McCoy
Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium (2016)
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Ad Injection at Scale: Assessing Deceptive Advertisement Modifications
Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein, Chris Grier, Grant Ho, Nav Jagpal, Alexandros Kapravelos, Damon McCoy, Antonio Nappa, Vern Paxson, Paul Pearce, Niels Provos, Moheeb Abu Rajab
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2015)
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Trends and Lessons from Three Years Fighting Malicious Extensions
Nav Jagpal, Eric Dingle, Jean-Philippe Gravel, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Niels Provos, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Kurt Thomas
USENIX Security Symposium (2015)
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Tick Tock: Building Browser Red Pills from Timing Side Channels
Grant Ho, Dan Boneh, Lucas Ballard, Niels Provos
8th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT 14), USENIX Association (2014)
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CAMP: Content-Agnostic Malware Protection
Moheeb Abu Rajab, Lucas Ballard, Noe Lutz, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Niels Provos
Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), USA (2013)
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Manufacturing Compromise: The Emergence of Exploit-as-a-Service
Chris Grier, Lucas Ballard, Juan Caballero, Neha Chachra, Christian J. Dietrich, Kirill Levchenko, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Damon McCoy, Antonio Nappa, Andreas Pitsillidis, Niels Provos, M. Zubair Rafique, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Christian Rossow, Kurt Thomas, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker
Proceedings of 19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (2012)
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ShellOS: Enabling fast detection and forensic analysis of code injection attacks
Kevin Snow, Srinivas Krishnan, Fabian Monrose, Niels Provos
USENIX Security Symposium (2011)
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The Nocebo Effect on the Web: An Analysis of Fake Anti-Virus Distribution
Moheeb Abu Rajab, Lucas Ballard, Panayiotis Marvrommatis, Niels Provos, Xin Zhao
Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats, USENIX (2010)
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All Your iFrames Point to Us
Niels Provos, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Moheeb Rajab, Fabian Monrose
17th USENIX Security Symposium (2008)
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Corrupted DNS Resolution Paths: The Rise of a Malicious Resolution Authority
David Dagon, Chris Lee, Wenke Lee, Niels Provos
Proc. 15th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), Internet Society, San Diego, CA (2008)
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Ghost Turns Zombie: Exploring the Life Cycle of Web-based Malware
Michalis Polychronakis, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Niels Provos
Proceedings of the 1st USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET) (2008)
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Peeking Through the Cloud
Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis, Niels Provos
6th Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (2008)
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To Catch a Predator: A Natural Language Approach for Eliciting Protocol Interaction
Sam Small, Joshua Mason, Fabian Monrose, Niels Provos, Adam Stubblefield
17th USENIX Security Symposium (2008)
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A Framework for Detection and Measurement of Phishing Attacks
Sujata Garera, Niels Provos, Monica Chew, Aviel D. Rubin
WORM'07, ACM, Alexandria, VA (2007)
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The Ghost In The Browser: Analysis of Web-based Malware
Niels Provos, Dean McNamee, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Ke Wang, Nagendra Modadugu
First Workshop on Hot Topics in Understanding Botnets (HotBots '07), Online Proceedings, http://www.usenix.org/events/hotbots07/tech/ (2007)
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Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection
Niels Provos, Thorsten Holz
Addison Wesley (2007)
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Cookies Along Trust-Boundaries (CAT): Accurate and Deployable Flood Protection
Martin Casado, Aditya Akella, Pei Cao, Niels Provos, Scott Shenker
In Proceedings of Steps To Reduce Unwated Traffic From The Internet (2006)
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Flow-Cookies: Using Bandwidth Amplification to Defend Against DDoS Flooding Attacks
Martin Casado, Pei Cao, Aditya Akella, Niels Provos
Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on QoS (2006)
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Niels Provos, Joe McClain, Ke Wang
WORM '06: Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Recurring malcode, ACM Press, Alexandria, Virginia, USA (2006), pp. 1-8
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Data Reduction for the Scalable Automated Analysis of Distributed Darknet Traffic
Michael Bailey, Evan Cooke, Farnam Jahanian, Niels Provos, Karl Rosaen, David Watson
Proceedings of the 2005 Internet Measurement Conference
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A Virtual Honeypot Framework
USENIX Security Symposium (2004), pp. 1-14
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Improving Host Security with System Call Policies
12th USENIX Security Symposium (2003)
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Preventing Privilege Escalation
Niels Provos, Markus Friedl, Peter Honeyman
12th USENIX Security Symposium (2003)
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Defending Against Statistical Steganalysis
10th USENIX Security Symposium (2001)
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Encrypting Virtual Memory
9th USENIX Security Symposium (2000)
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A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme
Niels Provos, David Mazi{\`e}res
USENIX Annual Technical Conference, FREENIX Track (1999)
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Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview
Theo de Raadt, Niklas Hallqvist, Artur Grabowski, Angelos D. Keromytis, Niels Provos
USENIX Annual Technical Conference, FREENIX Track (1999)
Previous Publications
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Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange for the Secure Shell (SSH) Transport Layer Protocol
M. Friedl, N. Provos, W. Simpson
IETF (2006)
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Hide and Seek: An Introduction to Steganography
Niels Provos, Peter Honeyman
IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 1 (2003), pp. 32-44
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Detecting Steganographic Content on the Internet
Niels Provos, Peter Honeyman
NDSS (2002)
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ScanSSH: Scanning the Internet for SSH Servers
Niels Provos, Peter Honeyman
LISA (2001), pp. 25-30








