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		<title>The Spam Ecosystem: New Profits From Political Censorship</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post is based on research from &#8220;Adapting Social Spam Infrastructure for Political Censorship&#8221; published in LEET 2012 &#8211; a pdf is available under my publications. Any views or opinions discussed herein are my own.) In recent years social networks have emerged as a significant tool for both political discussion and dissent. Salient examples include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suspended Accounts In Retrospect</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a draft, but instant gratification requires I post immediately to pretend I curate this blog on a regular basis. (This post is based on research from IMC 2011 &#8211; a pdf is available under my publications. Any views or opinions discussed herein are my own and are based solely on research I conducted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working @Twitter &amp; Researching 4 Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a bit of juggling and finishing up research at Berkeley for the Spring (fingers crossed for IMC 2011), I landed an internship at Twitter over the Summer. My goal is to examine spam that is targeting their systems and to see whether any of the research ideas coming out of our Berkeley group are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monarch: Preventing Spam in Real-Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post is based on research from Oakland 2011 &#8211; a pdf is available under my publications) Recently we presented our research on Monarch, a real-time system that crawls URLs as they are submitted to web services and determines whether the URLs direct to spam. The system is geared towards environments such as email or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>@spam: The underground on 140 characters or less</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post is based on research to appear in CCS 2010 &#8212; an advance pdf is available under my publications) To understand spam propagating within Twitter, we plugged into Twitter&#8217;s streaming API and monitored tweets submitted to the site over the course of one month. Given that we have no pre-existing notion of what spam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zion to California</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps worthy of an update, I recently moved out to California to begin working for Dawn Song and Vern Paxon as a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. If the cards have it, I hope to continue my Ph.D. work here. On the drive out I spent a few days in Zion camping and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Koobface Spam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Koobface botnet preys on social networking sites as its primary means of propagation. Unsuspecting victims browsing Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks are sent messages from users they believe to be friends. In truth, these users are either compromised accounts that fell for one of Koobface&#8217;s scams or fraudulent accounts created by Koobface. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hijacking Koobface&#8217;s Captcha Solver</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the interesting challenges of propagating malware through social media is the requirement of obtaining new accounts for spamming. The Koobface botnet automates this process by leveraging zombies to sign up for accounts on Facebook, Gmail, Blogger, and Google Reader. Each of these services requires a solution to a Captcha challenge which Koobface pushes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sand and Dust</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researching at Sandia National Labs for the summer, though my projects have more to do with coding as opposed to novel insight. It&#8217;s been a strange summer, but exceedingly fun. I adhered to my non-binding commitment to get as much camping and hiking in as possible while in New Mexico, trips landing me at El [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where In Life Is Life Going?</title>
		<link>http://www.inwyrd.com/blog/?p=20</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This semester I was hoping to start some interesting courses, but Cyberspace Law, Communication Networks, and Advanced Applied Cryptography were all canceled. In lue of my schedule being turned on its head I decided to take Random Processes, Fault-Tolerant Hardware Design, and on a whim, Advances in Psychobiology. Despite the course load and research I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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