Victor Le Pochat, Laura Edelson, Tom Van Goethem, Wouter Joosen, Damon McCoy, Tobias Lauinger
Presented at 31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2022)
In this paper, we quantify whether Facebook’s current enforcement correctly identifies political ads and ensures compliance by advertisers.
Xander Bouwman, Victor Le Pochat, Pawel Foremski, Tom Van Goethem, Carlos H. Gañán, Giovane C. M. Moura, Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob, Wouter Joosen, Michel van Eeten
Presented at 31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2022)
In this paper, we track a volunteer security information sharing community to understand whether collaboration at scale leads to better coverage and whether making threat data freely available improves the ability of defenders to act.
Yana Dimova, Victor Le Pochat
Published in 2021
Privacy chapter of the 2021 Web Almanac covering adoption and impact of online tracking, privacy preference signals and browser initiatives for a privacy-friendlier web.
Pelayo Vallina, Victor Le Pochat, Álvaro Feal, Marius Paraschiv, Julien Gamba, Tim Burke, Oliver Hohlfeld, Juan Tapiador, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez
Presented at 2020 Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2020)
In this paper, we study 13 domain classification services, and find that their coverage and accuracy varies significantly and may be lacking for applications in end-user solutions or academic research.
Victor Le Pochat, Tim Van hamme, Sourena Maroofi, Tom Van Goethem, Davy Preuveneers, Andrzej Duda, Wouter Joosen, Maciej Korczyński
Presented at 27th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2020)
In this paper, we develop a model that automates the classification of registered domains generated by Domain Generation Algorithms of malware using the Avalanche bulletproof hosting service.
Victor Le Pochat, Tom Van Goethem, Wouter Joosen
Presented at 12th USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET 2019)
This paper provides a longitudinal evaluation of Tranco, in order to make researchers aware of its properties.
Tom Van Goethem, Victor Le Pochat, Wouter Joosen
Presented at 2019 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS 2019)
This paper assesses how organizations apply security consistently across their web estate through a comparison of the desktop and mobile-first versions of their website.
Victor Le Pochat, Tom Van Goethem, Wouter Joosen
Presented at 4th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity (WTMC 2019)
This paper explores typosquatting that exploits typos on keyboard layouts other than the standard US English layout.
Victor Le Pochat, Tom Van Goethem, Wouter Joosen
Presented at 20th Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM 2019)
This paper explores Internationalized Domain Names with genuine interest: domains for brands or phrases that contain accented letters.
Victor Le Pochat, Tom Van Goethem, Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob, Maciej Korczyński, Wouter Joosen
Presented at 26th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2019)
This paper studies the properties of top websites rankings (e.g. the Alexa top 1 million), uncovers that these rankings can be manipulated on a large scale, and provides a new improved ranking: Tranco.
Victor Le Pochat, Tom Van Goethem, Wouter Joosen
Presented at 10th International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS 2018)
This paper presents the potential of integrating visual analytics into the analysis process for web security studies, in order to make this process more efficient.
Victor Le Pochat, Tom Van Goethem, Wouter Joosen
Presented at 19th Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM 2018)
This extended abstract sets out the challenges of integrating visual analytics into the analysis process for web security studies.