Systems & Hardware Security
Research Topics
Network Security
Indicative Publications:
“The Million Dollar Handshake: Secure and Attested Communications in the Cloud” Nikolaos Chalkiadakis, Dimitris Deyannis, Dimitris Karnikis, Giorgos Vasiliadis, and Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), Beijing, China, October 2020.
“Head(er)Hunter: Fast Intrusion Detection using Packet Metadata Signatures” Eva Papadogiannaki, Dimitris Deyannis, and Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Pisa, Italy, September 2020.
“Pythia: Scheduling of Concurrent Network Packet Processing Applications on Heterogeneous Devices” Giannis Giakoumakis, Eva Papadogiannaki, Giorgos Vasiliadis, and Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NETSOFT), Ghent, Belgium, June-July 2020
“Efficient Software Packet Processing on Heterogeneous and Asymmetric Hardware Architectures” Eva Papadogiannaki Giorgos Vasiliadis, Lazaros Koromilas, and Sotiris Ioannidis. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1593-1606, June 2017.
Trusted Execution Environments
Indicative Publications:
“The Million Dollar Handshake: Secure and Attested Communications in the Cloud” Nikolaos Chalkiadakis, Dimitris Deyannis, Dimitris Karnikis, Giorgos Vasiliadis, and Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), Beijing, China, October 2020.
“An Enclave Assisted Snapshot-based Kernel Integrity Monitor” Dimitris Deyannis, Dimitris Karnikis, Giorgos Vasiliadis, and Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys), Heraklion, Greece, April 2020.(In conjunction with ACM EuroSys 2020)
“TrustAV: Practical and privacy preserving malware analysis in the cloud” Dimitris Deyannis, Eva Papapdogiannaki, George Kalivianakis, Giorgos Vasiliadis, and Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Data Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), New Orleans LA, USA, March 2020.
“No sugar but all the taste! Memory Encryption without Architectural Support” Panagiotis Papadopoulos, George Christou, Giorgos Vasiliadis, Evangelos Markatos, and Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the 22nd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Oslo, Norway, September 2017
Web Security and Privacy
Indicative Publications:
“The Cookie Hunter: Automated Black-box Auditing for Web Authentication and Authorization Flaws” Kostas Drakonakis, Sotiris Ioannidis, and Jason Polakis. In Proceedings of the ACM/SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), online, November 2020.
“Please Forget Where I Was Last Summer: The Privacy Risks of Public Location (Meta) Data” Kostas Drakonakis, Panagiotis Ilia, Sotiris Ioannidis, and Jason Polakis. In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium, San Diego CA, USA, February 2019.
“Master of Web Puppets: Abusing Web Browsers for Persistent and Stealthy Computation” Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Panagiotis Ilia, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos Markatos, Sotiris Ioannidis, and Giorgos Vasiliadis. In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium, San Diego CA, USA, February 2019.
Mobile Security and Privacy
Indicative Publications:
“The Seven Deadly Sins of the HTML5 WebAPI: A Large-scale Study on the Risks of Mobile Sensor-based Attacks” Michalis Diamantaris, Francesco Marcantoni, Sotiris Ioannidis, and Jason Polakis. In ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), Vol. 23, No. 4 , Article 19. Publication date: June 2020.
“A Large-scale Study on the Risks of the HTML5 WebAPI for Mobile Sensor-based Attacks” Francesco Marcantoni, Michalis Diamantaris, Sotiris Ioannidis, and Jason Polakis. In Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference (WWW), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 2019
“REAPER: Real-time App Analysis for Augmenting the Android Permission System” Michalis Diamantaris, Elias P. Papadopoulos, Evangelos P. Markatos, Sotiris Ioannidis, and Jason Polakis. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Data Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), Dallas TX, USA, March 2019.
“Enabling GPU-assisted Antivirus Protection on Android Devices through Edge Offloading” Dimitris Deyannis, Raphael Tsirbas, Giorgos Vasiliadis, Raphaelle Montella, Sokol Kosta, and Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys), Munich, Germany, June 2018. (In conjunction with MobiSys 2018)
“The Long-Standing Privacy Debate: Mobile Websites vs. Mobile Apps” Elias P. Papadopoulos, Michalis Diamantaris, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Thanasis Petsas, Sotiris Ioannidis, and Evangelos P. Markatos. In Proceedings of the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Perth, Australia, April 2017 (Best Paper Honorable Mention Award).
“Powerslave: Analyzing the Energy Consumption of Mobile Antivirus Software” Iasonas Polakis, Michalis Diamantaris, Thanasis Petsas, Federico Maggi, and Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA), Milano, Italy, July 2015.
Encrypted Traffic Analysis
Indicative Publications:
“Head(er)Hunter: Fast Intrusion Detection using Packet Metadata Signatures” Eva Papadogiannaki, Dimitris Deyannis, and Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Pisa, Italy, September 2020.
Embedded Systems Security
Indicative Publications:
“On Architectural Support for Instruction Set Randomization.” George Christou, Giorgos Vasiliadis, Vassilis Papaefstathiou, Antonis Papadogiannakis, and Sotiris Ioannidis. In ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), December 2020.
“No sugar but all the taste! Memory Encryption without Architectural Support” Panagiotis Papadopoulos, George Christou, Giorgos Vasiliadis, Evangelos Markatos, and Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the 22nd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Oslo, Norway, September 2017
“HCFI: Hardware-enforced Control Flow Integrity” Nick Christoulakis, George Christou, Elias Athanasopoulos, and Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), New Orleans, LA, USA, March 2016 (Outstanding Paper Award).
Language-Based Security
Indicative Publications:
Secure Reconfigurable Systems
Indicative Publications:
“On Architectural Support for Instruction Set Randomization.” George Christou, Giorgos Vasiliadis, Vassilis Papaefstathiou, Antonis Papadogiannakis, and Sotiris Ioannidis. In ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), December 2020.
“HCFI: Hardware-enforced Control Flow Integrity” Nick Christoulakis, George Christou, Elias Athanasopoulos, and Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), New Orleans, LA, USA, March 2016 (Outstanding Paper Award).
Honeypots & Cloud-IDS
Indicative Publications:
“TrustAV: Practical and privacy preserving malware analysis in the cloud” Dimitris Deyannis, Eva Papapdogiannaki, George Kalivianakis, Giorgos Vasiliadis, and Sotiris Ioannidis. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Data Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), New Orleans LA, USA, March 2020.
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