[Security-meetings] Security Reading Group for Winter 2021

Mon Mar 15 10:40:03 PDT 2021

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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