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Damon McCoy


Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
George Mason University

E-Mail: mccoy(_@_)cs.gmu.edu
Office: 5328 Engineering Building
Phone: 703-993-3339 (Voice mail is not checked)
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Research Interests

Recent Publications
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
Practical Defenses for Evil Twin Attacks in 802.11
Harold Gonzales, Kevin Bauer, Janne Lindqvist, Damon McCoy, Douglas Sicker
IEEE Globecom Communications and Information Security Symposium, Miami, FL, December 2010
Wifi-Reports: Improving Wireless Network Selection with Collaboration
Jeffrey Pang, Ben Greenstein, Michael Kaminsky, Damon McCoy, Srinivasan Seshan
IEEE Transactions On Mobile Computing, Vol. 9 2010
[ Wifi-Scanner Tool, Crawdad Data Set ]
Re: CAPTCHAs -- Understanding CAPTCHA Solving from an Economic Context
Marti Motoyama, Kirill Levchenko, Chris Kanich, Damon McCoy, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage
Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Washington, D.C., August 2010.
[ NPR, MIT Technology Review ]
Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile
Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, Shwetak Patel, Tadayoshi Kohno, Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, Stefan Savage
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium and Security and Privacy, Oakland, CA, May 2010
[ Automotive Security Project Web Page ] [ The New York Times, PC World, Technology Review, Slashdot, Popular Science, BBC ]

Complete publication list...
Teaching
ISA 656 (Network Security) Spring 2012


Program Committees
Usenix Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET) 2012
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2012
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing System 2012
ACM Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services 2011
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2011