Publications

Abderrahmen Amich, Birhanu Eshete, Vinod Yegneswaran, Nguyen Phong Hoang (2023). DeResistor: Toward Detection-Resistant Probing for Evasion of Internet Censorship. Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (SEC’23), 2023.

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Probir Roy, Birhanu Eshete, Pengfei Su (2023). Designing Secure Performance Metrics for Last-Level Cache. Proceedings of the 28th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS 2023).

Ismat Jarin, Birhanu Eshete (2023). MIAShield: Defending Membership Inference Attacks via Preemptive Exclusion of Members. Proceedings of the 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2023).

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Abderrahmen Amich, Birhanu Eshete, Vinod Yegneswaran (2022). Adversarial Detection of Censorship Measurements. Proceedings of the 21st ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES’22), co-located with the 29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2022.

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Abderrahmen Amich, Birhanu Eshete (2022). EG-Booster: Explanation-Guided Booster of ML Evasion Attacks. Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (ACM CODASPY).

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Ismat Jarin, Birhanu Eshete (2022). DP-UTIL: Comprehensive Utility Analysis of Differential Privacy in Machine Learning. Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (ACM CODASPY).

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Abderrahmen Amich, Birhanu Eshete (2021). Morphence: Moving Target Defense Against Adversarial Examples. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC).

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Birhanu Eshete (2021). Making Machine Learning Trustworthy. Science, Vol. 373, Issue 6556, pp. 743-744, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Abderrahmen Amich, Birhanu Eshete (2021). Explanation-Guided Diagnosis of Machine Learning Evasion Attacks. Proceedings of the 17th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm).

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Ismat Jarin, Birhanu Eshete (2021). PRICURE: Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Inference in a Multi-Party Setting. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop Security and Privacy Anlytics (IWSPA), co-located with ACM CODASPY’21.

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Ismat Jarin, Birhanu Eshete (2021). PRICURE: Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Inference in a Multi-Party Setting. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics (IWSPA), co-located with ACM CODASPY’21.

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Abdullah Ali, Birhanu Eshete (2020). Best-Effort Adversarial Approximation of Black-Box Malware Classifiers. Proceedings of the 16th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm).

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Sadegh M. Milajerdi, Birhanu Eshete, Rigel Gjomemo, V.N. Venkatakrishnan (2019). Poirot: Aligning Attack Behavior with Kernel Audit Records for Cyber Threat Hunting. Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS).

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Sadegh M. Milajerdi, Rigel Gjomemo, Birhanu Eshete, R. Sekar, V.N. Venkatakrishnan (2019). HOLMES: Real-time APT Detection through Correlation of Suspicious Information Flows. Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P).

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Sadegh M. Milajerdi, Birhanu Eshete, Rigel Gjomemo, V.N. Venkatakrishnan (2018). ProPatrol: Attack Investigation via Extracted High-Level Tasks. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS).

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Abeer Alhuzali, Rigel Gjomemo, Birhanu Eshete, V.N. Venkatakrishnan (2018). NAVEX: Precise and Scalable Exploit Generation for Dynamic Web Applications. Proceedings of the 27th USENIX Security Symposium (SEC).

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Md Nahid Hossain, Sadegh M. Milajerdi, Junao Wang, Birhanu Eshete, Rigel Gjomemo, R. Sekar, Scott D. Stoller, V.N. Venkatakrishnan (2017). SLEUTH: Real-time Attack Scenario Reconstruction from COTS Audit Data. Proceedings of the 26th USENIX Security Symposium (SEC).

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Birhanu Eshete, V.N. Venkatakrishnan (2017). DYNAMINER: Leveraging Offline Infection Analytics for On-the-Wire Malware Detection. Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN).

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Abeer Alhuzali, Birhanu Eshete, Rigel Gjomemo, V.N. Venkatakrishnan (2016). Chainsaw: Chained Automated Workflow-based Exploit Generation. Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security(CCS).

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Birhanu Eshete, Abeer Alhuzali, Maliheh Monshizadeh, Phillip Porras, V.N. Venkatakrishnan, Vinod Yegneswaran (2015). EKHunter: A Counter-Offensive Toolkit for Exploit Kit Infiltration. Proceedings of the 22nd Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS).

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Birhanu Eshete, V.N. Venkatakrishnan (2014). WebWinnow: Leveraging exploit kit workflows to detect malicious URLs. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY).

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Birhanu Eshete (2013). Effective Analysis, Characterization, and Detection of Malicious Activities on the Web. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Trento.

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Birhanu Eshete, Adolfo Villafiorita, Komminist Weldemariam, Mohammad Zulkernine (2013). EINSPECT: Evolution-Guided Analysis and Detection of Malicious Web Pages. Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Conference on Computer Software and Applications (COMPSAC).

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Birhanu Eshete, Komminist Weldemariam, Adolfo Villafiorita, Mohammad Zulkernine (2013). ConfEagle: Automated Analysis of Security Configuration Vulnerabilities in Web Applications. Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Security and Reliability (SERE).

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Birhanu Eshete (2013). Effective Analysis, Characterization, and Detection of Malicious Web Pages. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on World Wide Web Companion (WWW).

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Aaron Ciaghi, Birhanu Eshete, Pietro Molini, Adolfo Villafiorita (2013). SAMo: Experimenting a Social Accountability Web Platform. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (ACM DEV).

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Aaron Ciaghi, Birhanu Eshete, Pietro Molini, Adolfo Villafiorita (2012). Social Accountability for Mozambique: an Experience Report from the Moamba District. Proceedings of the International IEEE EAI Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries (AFRICOMM).

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Birhanu Eshete, Adolfo Villafiorita, Komminist Weldemariam (2012). BINSPECT: Holistic Analysis and Detection of Malicious Web Pages. Proceedings of the 8th Springer EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SECURECOMM).

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Birhanu Eshete, Komminist Weldemariam, Adolfo Villafiorita (2011). Early Detection of Security Misconfiguration Vulnerabilities in Web Applications. Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES).

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Birhanu Eshete, Adolfo Villafiorita, Komminist Weldemariam (2011). Malicious Website Detection: Effectiveness and Efficiency Issues. Proceedings of 1st IEEE System Security Workshop (SysSec), Co-Located with DIMVA.

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Valentino Sartori, Birhanu Eshete, Adolfo Villafiorita (2011). Measuring the Impact of Different Metrics on Software Quality: a Case Study in the Open Source Domain. Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS).

Biniyam Asfaw, Dawit Bekele, Birhanu Eshete, Komminist Weldemariam, Adolfo Villafiorita (2010). Host-based Anomaly Detection for Pervasive Medical Systems. Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRiSIS).

Birhanu Eshete, Dawit Bekele, Komminist Weldemariam, Adolfo Villafiorita (2010). Context Information Refinement for Pervasive Medical Systems. Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS).

Birhanu Eshete, Komminist Weldemariam, Adolfo Villafiorita, Andrea Mattioli (2010). ICT for Good: Opportunities, Challenges and the Way Forward. Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS).

Birhanu Eshete (2007). Context Information Refinement for Pervasive Medical Systems. Master’s Thesis, Addis Ababa University.

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