The landscape of domain name typosquatting: techniques and countermeasures

May 20, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 7 Comments

The landscape of domain name typosquatting: techniques and countermeasures - Spaulding et al. arXiv upload 9 Mar 2016. We round up our series of posts on internet deceptions by looking at domain squatting. My "favourite" advanced technique is bitsquatting, which turns out to be a great demonstration of the inevitable failures that occur with sufficient ... Continue Reading

Understanding malvertising through ad-injecting browser extensions

May 19, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 1 Comment

Understanding malvertising through ad-injecting browser extensions- Xing et al., WWW 2015. Be careful what browser extensions you install. Some ad networks have started to offer browser extension developers an opportunity to monetise their work, and in this study Xing et al. show that of the 292 Chrome browser extensions in their survey which inject ads, ... Continue Reading

Knowing your enemy: understanding and detecting malicious web advertising

May 18, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 1 Comment

Knowing your enemy: understanding and detecting malicious web advertising - Li at al. CCS, 2012 ... hackers and con-artists have found web ads to be a low-cost and highly effective means to conduct malicious and fraudulent activities. In this paper, we broadly refer to such ad-related malicious activities as malvertising, which can happen to any ... Continue Reading

PharmaLeaks: Understanding the business of online pharmaceutical affiliate programs

May 17, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 3 Comments

PharmaLeaks: Understanding the business of online pharmaceutical affiliate programs - McCoy et al., USENIX Security, 2012 Yesterday we looked at the technology infrastructure supporting spam-based advertising businesses. Today's paper gives a fascinating look at the business model. How this is possible is itself a very interesting story which we'll get to shortly. The authors gained ... Continue Reading

Dynamic Time Warping averaging of time series allows faster and more accurate classification

May 13, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

Dynamic Time Warping averaging of time series allows faster and more accurate classification - Petitjean et al. ICDM 2014 For most time series classification problems, using the Nearest Neighbour algorithm (find the nearest neighbour within the training set to the query) is the technique of choice. Moreover, when determining the distance to neighbours, we want ... Continue Reading

Time series classification under more realistic assumptions

May 12, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

Time series classification under more realistic assumptions - Hu et al. ICDM 2013 This paper sheds light on the gap between research results in time series classification, and what you're likely to see if you try to apply the results in the real world. And having identified the gap of course, the authors go on ... Continue Reading

Searching and mining trillions of time series subsequences under Dynamic Time Warping

May 11, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 11 Comments

Searching and mining trillions of time series subsequences under dynamic time warping - Rakthanmanon et al. SIGKDD 2012 What an astonishing paper this is! By 2012, Dynamic Time Warping had been shown to be the time series similarity measure that generally performs the best for matching, but because of its computational complexity researchers and practitioners ... Continue Reading

Towards parameter-free data mining

May 10, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 3 Comments

Towards Parameter-Free Data Mining - Keogh et al. SIGKDD 2004 Another time series paper today from the Facebook Gorilla references. Keogh et al. describe an incredibly simple and easy to implement scheme that does surprisingly well with clustering, anomaly detection, and classification tasks over time series data. As per the title of the paper, it ... Continue Reading

Finding surprising patterns in a time series database in linear time and space

May 9, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 8 Comments

Finding Surprising Patterns in a Time Series Database in Linear Time and Space - Keogh et al. SIGKDD 2002 In the Facebook Gorilla paper, the authors mentioned a number of additional time series analysis techniques they'd like to add to the system over time. Today's paper is one of them, and it deals with the ... Continue Reading

NOVA: A Log-Structured File System for Hybrid Volatile/Non-Volatile Main Memories

May 6, 2016 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ Leave a comment

NOVA: A Log-structured file system for hybrid volatile/non-volatile main memories - Xu & Swanson 2016 Another paper looking at the design implications of mixed DRAM and NVMM systems (it's the future!), this time in the context of file systems. (NVMM = Non-volatile Main Memory). Hybrid DRAM/NVMM storage systems present a host of opportunities and challenges ... Continue Reading

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