NDSS Symposium 2018

NDSS 2018 was held February 18-21, 2018, at the lovely Catamaran Resort Hotel & Spa in San Diego, California. It was a highly successful event with 71 papers, 18 posters, 4 workshops, and 2 keynotes. All the details are linked off the NDSS Programme Page.

Cisco Network Security Best Paper Award

Automated Attack Discovery in TCP Congestion Control Using a Model-guided Approach

Samuel Jero (Purdue Univ.), Endadul Hoque (FIU), David Choffnes, Alan Mislove, Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Northeastern Univ.)

NDSS 2018 Distinguished Paper Awards

Knock Knock, Who’s There? Membership Inference on Aggregate Location Data

Apostolos Pyrgelis (UCL), Carmela Troncoso (EPFL), and Emiliano De Cristofaro (UCL)

Resolving the Predicament of Android Custom Permissions

Güliz Seray Tuncay, Soteris Demetriou, Karan Ganju, and Carl Gunter (UIUC)

Best Technical Poster

Machine Learning-Based Fingerprinting of Network Traffic Using Programmable Forwarding Engines

Greg Cusack, Oliver Michel and Eric Keller.

Best Poster Presentation

The Petri Dish Attack – Guessing Secrets Based on Bacterial Growth

Katharina Krombholz, Adrian Dabrowski, Peter Purgathofer and Edgar Weippl.