[Security-meetings] Security Reading Group for Winter 2021

[Zheng Zhang]

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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