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NSDI
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Maelstrom: Transparent Error Correction for Lambda Networks
The global network of datacenters is emerging as an important distributed systems paradigm -- commodity clusters running high-performance applications, connected by high-speed `la...
Mahesh Balakrishnan, Tudor Marian, Ken Birman, Hak...
NSDI
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Behind Phishing: An Examination of Phisher Modi Operandi
Phishing costs Internet users billions of dollars a year. Using various data sets collected in real-time, this paper analyzes various aspects of phisher modi operandi. We examine ...
D. Kevin McGrath, Minaxi Gupta
NSDI
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Detecting In-Flight Page Changes with Web Tripwires
While web pages sent over HTTP have no integrity guarantees, it is commonly assumed that such pages are not modified in transit. In this paper, we provide evidence of surprisingly...
Charles Reis, Steven D. Gribble, Tadayoshi Kohno, ...
NSDI
2008
15 years 9 months ago
DieCast: Testing Distributed Systems with an Accurate Scale Model
Large-scale network services can consist of tens of thousands of machines running thousands of unique software configurations spread across hundreds of physical networks. Testing ...
Diwaker Gupta, Kashi Venkatesh Vishwanath, Amin Va...
NSDI
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Nysiad: Practical Protocol Transformation to Tolerate Byzantine Failures
The paper presents and evaluates Nysiad,1 a system that implements a new technique for transforming a scalable distributed system or network protocol tolerant only of crash failur...
Chi Ho, Robbert van Renesse, Mark Bickford, Danny ...