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Damon McCoyAssistant Professor
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Damon McCoy is an Assistant Professor in the CS department at George Mason University. Previously he was a Computer Innovation Fellow at the University of California, San Diego. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research includes work on wireless privacy, anonymous communication systems, cyber-physical security, and economics of e-crime. More generally, he is interested in exploring and improving the security and privacy of large-scale systems.
| Recent Publications |
| Trafficking Fraudulent Accounts: The Role of the Underground Market in Twitter Spam and Abuse Kurt Thomas, Damon McCoy, Chris Grier, Alek Kolcz, and Vern Paxson To appear in the Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, August 2013. | |
| Priceless: The Role of Payments in Abuse-advertised Goods Damon McCoy, Hitesh Dharmdasani, Christian Kreibich, Geoffrey M. Voelker and Stefan Savage Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Raleigh, NC, October 2012. | |
| Manufacturing Compromise: The Emergence of Exploit-as-a-Service Chris Grier, Kurt Thomas, Lucas Ballard, Juan Caballero, Neha Chachra, Christian J. Dietrich, Kirill Levchenko, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Damon McCoy, Antonio Nappa, Andreas Pitsillidis, Niels Provos, Zubair Rafique, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Christian Rossow, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Raleigh, NC, October 2012. | |
| PharmaLeaks: Understanding the Business of Online Pharmaceutical Affiliate Programs Damon McCoy, Andreas Pitsillidis, Grant Jordan, Nicholas Weaver, Christian Kreibich, Brian Krebs, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage, and Kirill Levchenko Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Bellevue, WA, August 2012. | |
| An Analysis of Underground Forums Marti Motoyama, Damon McCoy, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Berlin, Germany, November 2011. | |
| Comprehensive Experimental Analysis of Automototive Attack Surfaces Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Danny Anderson, Brian Kantor, Hovav Shacham, Stefan Savage, Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, San Francisco, CA, August 2011. [ New York Times ] | |
| Dirty Jobs: The Role of Freelance Labor in Web Service Abuse Marti Motoyama, Damon McCoy, Kirill Levchenko, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, San Francisco, CA, August 2011. | |
| Show Me the Money: Characterizing Spam-advertised Revenue Chris Kanich, Nicholas Weaver, Damon McCoy, Tristan Halvorson, Christian Kreibich, Kirill Levchenko, Vern Paxson, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, San Francisco, CA, August 2011. | |
| No Plan Survives Contact: Experience with Cybercrime Measurement Chris Kanich, Neha Chachra, Damon McCoy, Chris Grier, David Wang, Marti Motoyama, Kirill Levchenko, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Veolker Proceedings of Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET), August 2011. | |
| ExperimenTor: A Testbed for Safe and Realistic Tor Experimentation Kevin Bauer, Micah Sherr, Damon McCoy, Dirk Grunwald To appear at 4th USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET) San Francisco, CA, August 2011 | |
| DefenestraTor: Throwing out Windows in Tor Mashael AlSabah, Kevin Bauer, Ian Goldberg, Dirk Grunwald, Damon McCoy, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Waterloo, Canada, July 2011 | |
| Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain Kirill Levchenko, Neha Chachra, Brandon Enright, Mark Felegyhazi, Chris Grier, Tristan Halvorson, Chris Kanich, Christian Kreibich, He Liu, Damon McCoy, Andreas Pitsillidis, Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium and Security and Privacy, Oakland, CA, May 2011 [ The New York Times, CBS ] | |
| Proximax: A Measurement Based System for Proxies Dissemination Damon McCoy, Jose Andre Morales, Kirill Levchenko Financial Cryptography and Data Security, St. Lucia, February 2011 | |
| Full Publication List |
| Students |
| Jason Clark | |
| Jackie Jones | |
| Hitesh Dharmdasani (MS 2013) ICSI Intern |
| Teaching |
| ISA 656 (Network Security) Spring 2013 | |
| CS 795-004/ISA 797-002 (Cyber Crime) Fall 2012 | |
| ISA 656 (Network Security) Spring 2012 |
| Program Committees |