[Security-meetings] Security Reading Group for Winter 2021

[Heng Yin]

It is quite disappointing that nobody signs up to present in the security
reading group, despite we emphasize its importance repeatedly. If this is
what people want, I am fine with it.

Here I create an anonymous survey to collect your feedback:
https://forms.gle/eefgNpQtR7SvwyYJ8

I'd propose to give some incentive to those who present and actively
participate in this by giving out some cash awards (e.g., $100 as a
stipend) for best presenters and best participants.  I welcome other ideas
too.

-Heng

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 11:19 AM Shitong Zhu <shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is a (late) reminder that we don’t have the reading group today
> because no presenter has signed up for today. Please consider doing so for
> future groups using the sheet
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing.
> Thanks!
>
> Best,
> Shitong
>
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 12:06 PM Yizhuo Zhai <yzhai003 at ucr.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi All:
>> Thanks for attending the group meeting today and your valuable questions.
>>
>> I'm following Zhiyun's question here about the granularity of the spatial
>> context.
>> They refine the spatial context for not only drivers, but arch, net and
>> fs subsystems as well, for example, drivers/media and drivers/dma are
>> different spatial contexts. Moreover, the spatial context of sound/soc
>> and sound/x86 is sound.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 10:33 AM Yizhuo Zhai <yzhai003 at ucr.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This is a friendly reminder that we will have the reading group at 11AM
>>> PST today. I (Yizhuo) will present the paper titled "Exaggerated Error
>>> Handling Hurts! An In-Depth Study and Context-Aware Detection" from CCS
>>> '20.
>>>
>>> Please attend the meeting via Zoom:
>>> https://ucr.zoom.us/j/8171761639
>>> Meeting ID: 817 176 1639
>>>
>>> See you all soon!
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:06 AM Shitong Zhu <shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry for the wrong presenter and paper title -- Zheng in fact already
>>>> presented last week and this week it should be Jinghan with the paper
>>>> titled "WEIZZ: Automatic Grey-box Fuzzing for Structured Binary Formats"
>>>> from ISSTA 2020. The presentation will start in 5 minutes in case you
>>>> are interested but have not joined yet. Thanks a lot.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> - Shitong
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 10:59 AM Shitong Zhu <shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sorry for the last minute notice: we are starting today's reading
>>>>> group at https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345. Zheng is going to
>>>>> present the paper titled "Precisely Characterizing Security Impact in
>>>>> a Flood of Patches via Symbolic Rule Comparison" from NDSS '20.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> - Shitong
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:33 AM Shitong Zhu <
>>>>> shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is a friendly reminder that we DON’T have the reading group
>>>>>> today due to the spring break. Enjoy your break and let’s meet next Monday!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> Shitong
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 12:19 PM Zheng Zhang <zzhan173 at ucr.edu>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It seems that I cannot send the slides directly  due to the size
>>>>>>> limitation
>>>>>>> This is the link to the slides:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kSRAVnzKUNVKifQXnRanNlPViUDJQsjr/view?usp=sharing
>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 12:09 PM Zheng Zhang <zzhan173 at ucr.edu>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> These are the slides.
>>>>>>>> This is the link to the paper:
>>>>>>>> https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/sid.pdf
>>>>>>>> This is the link to the related paper in our discussions:
>>>>>>>> https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.05620.pdf
>>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 10:40 AM Shitong Zhu <
>>>>>>>> shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This is a friendly reminder that we will have the reading group at
>>>>>>>>> 11AM PST today. Zheng will present and discuss the paper titled "Precisely
>>>>>>>>> Characterizing Security Impact in a Flood of Patches via Symbolic Rule
>>>>>>>>> Comparison" from NDSS '20.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Please use the Zoom link https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345 to join
>>>>>>>>> (@Zheng: I'll let you share your screen once you join). See you
>>>>>>>>> all soon!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>>> - Shitong
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 4:18 PM Ju Chen <jchen757 at ucr.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Slides for today's presentation. Thanks!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 10:35 AM Shitong Zhu <
>>>>>>>>>> shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> This is a friendly reminder that we will have our first reading
>>>>>>>>>>> group for this quarter at 11AM PST. Ju will present and discuss the paper
>>>>>>>>>>> titled "Efficient Sampling of SAT Solutions for Testing" from
>>>>>>>>>>> ICSE '18.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Please use the Zoom link https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345 to
>>>>>>>>>>> join (@Ju: I'll let you share your screen once you join). See you all soon!
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>>>>> - Shitong
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 10:29 AM Shitong Zhu <
>>>>>>>>>>> shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> This is a friendly reminder that we will have our first reading
>>>>>>>>>>>> group for this quarter at 11AM PST. Zhenxiao will present and discuss two
>>>>>>>>>>>> papers today: (1) SymCC (
>>>>>>>>>>>> https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec20-poeplau.pdf) and (2)
>>>>>>>>>>>> SymQEMU (
>>>>>>>>>>>> https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/ndss2021_2B-2_24118_paper.pdf
>>>>>>>>>>>> ).
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Please use the Zoom link https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345 to
>>>>>>>>>>>> join (@Zhenxiao: I'll let you share your screen once you join). See you all
>>>>>>>>>>>> soon!
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>>>>>> - Shitong
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 7:58 PM Shitong Zhu <
>>>>>>>>>>>> shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> This is a reminder that we *WON'T* have the reading group
>>>>>>>>>>>>> tomorrow (Feb 22) as the presenter will be attending NDSS at the same time.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sorry for the consecutive delays -- I am sure we will finally start
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the group on next Monday (Feb 29). Hope everyone going to NDSS will enjoy
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the talks and all the virtual events there!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> - Shitong
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:56 AM Shitong Zhu <
>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> First, I would like to thank all of you for signing up for
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the presentations. Now we already have four presenters for the coming weeks
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (thanks to @Zhenxiao, @Ju, @Zheng and @Jinghan).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Second, this is a friendly reminder we *WON’T* have our
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reading group today due to President's Day holiday. I’ll send another
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reminder later this week for next Monday's group (Feb 22) including its
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> details.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Shitong
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 12:14 AM Shitong Zhu <
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hope you all had a great weekend!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Unfortunately, our signup sheet is still empty at the moment
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> without any volunteers, which is why I have to postpone our reading group
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> indefinitely, until there is at least one showing up in the sheet.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I’m sincerely encouraging anyone who has read, or even
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> written interesting papers recently, to participate in the upcoming
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> presentations. Also, I’m hoping faculty members can encourage your students
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> in doing so. Even though I’m doing my best to keep this event voluntary,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I’ll have no choice but start asking around if there is still no one
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> showing up later this week. Please consider participating in this and share
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the work you are interested in. Thanks and looking forward to starting the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> group as soon as next Monday (Feb 15)!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Shitong
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 6:02 PM Shitong Zhu <
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks a lot for marking your availability in the poll.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Based on all votes, *Monday 11AM to noon (PST)* is the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> most shared time slot. Let's tentatively schedule our group meetings for
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this time then.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> For presentations, unfortunately we don't have any
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> volunteers who have signed up on
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing at
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the point. Therefore, let's wait for another week and start the group
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> meeting on *Feb 8*. Again, please feel free to share any
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> paper that you find interesting and present it. There were quite some
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> conferences that took place over the past months -- in security, software
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> engineering, PL, ML and even other domains. I am sure there were many
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> interesting and worthy papers that study security-related topics on those
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> venues. I very much look forward to seeing volunteers to sign up!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> - Shitong
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 3:31 PM Shitong Zhu <
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> According to the Doodle poll (we only have 9 participants
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> so far), Monday 10AM-11AM, Monday 11AM-noon, Thursday 2PM to 3PM have the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> most votes (8 for each). I'll keep the poll open for this week and if the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> availability remains the same at the end of the week, I'll pick one from
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> these three slots as the recurring reading group time and start the group
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> from next week.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> In order to maximize the coverage for the reading group, I
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hope all security faculty members can encourage your students to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> participate, as they would probably be the ones who benefit the most from
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the presentations and discussions -- thanks for your support in advance!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> - Shitong
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:10 PM Shitong Zhu <
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Welcome back and hope you all are well and had a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wonderful new year!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm Shitong Zhu, a final-year CS PhD student. I'll be
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> helping organize the security reading group for Winter 2021. As you know,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> our reading group has been suspended for a while since mid-2020, due to the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pandemic and other reasons. Entering a new year, both students and faculty
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> members have been gradually noticing that without a venue where
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> students can present and discuss latest research in the community, many
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> folks have found it challenging to keep a fresh/update-to-date research
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mindset, and more importantly, engaging discussions with
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> other participants. Moreover, due to the pandemic, people are becoming
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> disconnected socially. In these regards, we have decided to resume the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> reading group, and hope that its reopening would bring not only new ideas,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ignite the research sparkles, but also re-connect people together with the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wide reach this group has been covering.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> As usual, we plan to reserve 1 hour per week for
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> presenting papers and follow-up discussions. Additionally, we will keep the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Zoom channel open after the 1 hour so that folks can have free chats if
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> they are interested. I have created a Doodle poll for converging on a time
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> slot for the 1 hour presentation/discussion allocation: *https://doodle.com/poll/t4f52syt8w5qegxy?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <https://doodle.com/poll/t4f52syt8w5qegxy?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link>*.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Note that even the poll shows times for this week, it presents all weeks
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> until the end of Winter 2021.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Besides the poll, please also sign up/volunteer for the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> upcoming presentations in this sheet: *https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing>*.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> With all the conferences held over the past months, I believe there are
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tons of interesting papers that are worth presentations and discussions.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Please don't be shy -- both literature review and presentation skills are
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> at the very core for the development of graduate students.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks a lot and have a great weekend!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> - Shitong
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> - Shitong
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> - Shitong
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> - Shitong
>>>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kind Regards,
>>>
>>> *Yizhuo Zhai*
>>>
>>> *Computer Science, Graduate Student*
>>> *University of California, Riverside *
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> *Yizhuo Zhai*
>>
>> *Computer Science, Graduate Student*
>> *University of California, Riverside *
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>
> Best,
> - Shitong
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