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Elie Bursztein

Elie leads Google's anti-abuse research team, which invents ways to protect users against cyber-criminal activities and Internet threats.

A Hacker Guide To Deep Learning Based Side Channel Attacks

Deconstructing the Phishing Campaigns that Target Gmail Users

Black Hat USA 2019

Rethinking the detection of child sexual abuse imagery on the Internet

Selected Blog posts

Understanding the online safety and privacy challenges faced by South Asian women

Blog post - Jun 2019

Password checkup: from 0 to 650, 000 users in 20 days

Blog post - Mar 2019

Account security - a divided user perception

Blog post - Feb 2019

Selected Publications

They Don't Leave Us Alone Anywhere We Go - Gender and Digital Abuse in South Asia

Publication - CHI 2019

Data Breaches: User Comprehension, Expectations, and Concerns with Handling Exposed Data

Publication - SOUPS 2018

Tracking desktop ransomware payments end to end

Publication - S&P 2018

Selected Talks

Cutting Edge TensorFlow - Keras Tuner: hypertuning for humans

How to successfully harness AI to combat fraud and abuse

Talk - RSA 2018

Hunting down Gooligan — retrospective analysis

Talk - Botconf 2017

Deconstructing the Phishing Campaigns that Target Gmail Users

Talk - Black Hat USA 2019

Data Breaches, Phishing, or Malware? Understanding the Risks of Stolen Credentials

Publication - CCS 2017

Pinning Down Abuse on Google Maps

Publication - WWW 2017

Attacking encrypted USB keys the hard(ware) way

Talk - Black Hat USA 2017

Bad beat: practical attacks against poker cheating devices

Blog post - Mar 2017

Royal flush: an in-depth look at poker cheating devices accessories

Blog post - Nov 2016

Understanding the prevalence of web traffic interception

Blog post - Jun 2017

Learn web security with Google

The Security Impact of HTTPS Interception

Publication - NDSS 2017

I am a legend hacking hearthstone using statistical learning methods

Publication - CIG 2016

Predicting Hearthstone game outcome with machine learning

Blog post - Oct 2016

Hearthstone 3d card viewer in pure javascript/css3

Blog post - Apr 2015

Understanding how people use private browsing

Blog post - Jul 2017

Using big data to understand users' privacy concerns

Blog post - May 2014

Cloak and swagger: understanding data sensitivity through the lens of user anonymity

Publication - S&P 2014

Password checkup: from 0 to 650, 000 users in 20 days

Blog post - Mar 2019

Account security - a divided user perception

Blog post - Feb 2019

The bleak picture of two-factor authentication adoption in the wild

Blog post - Dec 2018

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