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RETSim: Resilient and Efficient Text Similarity

RETSim: Resilient and Efficient Text Similarity

ICLR 2024

RETVec: Resilient and Efficient Text Vectorizer

RETVec: Resilient and Efficient Text Vectorizer

NeurIPS 2023

Building Safe End-to-End Encrypted Services for Business - a Google Workspace perspective

Building Safe End-to-End Encrypted Services for Business - a Google Workspace perspective

RSA 2022

Designing Toxic Content Classification for a Diversity of Perspectives

Designing Toxic Content Classification for a Diversity of Perspectives

SOUPS 2021

SoK: Hate, Harassment, and the Changing Landscape of Online Abuse

SoK: Hate, Harassment, and the Changing Landscape of Online Abuse

S&P 2021

Account protections - A Google Perspective

Account protections - A Google Perspective

FIC 2020

Spotlight: Malware Lead Generation At Scale

Spotlight: Malware Lead Generation At Scale

ACSAC 2020

CoinPolice: Detecting Hidden Cryptojacking Attacks with Neural Networks

CoinPolice: Detecting Hidden Cryptojacking Attacks with Neural Networks

arXiv 2020

Malicious Documents Emerging Trends: A Gmail Perspective

Malicious Documents Emerging Trends: A Gmail Perspective

RSA 2020

Deconstructing the Phishing Campaigns that Target Gmail Users

Deconstructing the Phishing Campaigns that Target Gmail Users

Black Hat USA 2019

Rethinking the detection of child sexual abuse imagery on the Internet

Rethinking the detection of child sexual abuse imagery on the Internet

WWW 2019

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

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

Jun 2019

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

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

CHI 2019

Rethinking how to detect child sexual abuse imagery on the Internet

Rethinking how to detect child sexual abuse imagery on the Internet

Enigma 2019

Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Attacks against machine learning — an overview

May 2018

How to handle mistakes while using AI to block attacks

How to handle mistakes while using AI to block attacks

Apr 2018

Challenges faced while training an AI to combat abuse

Challenges faced while training an AI to combat abuse

Apr 2018

Why AI is the key to robust anti-abuse defenses

Why AI is the key to robust anti-abuse defenses

Apr 2018

How to successfully harness AI to combat fraud and abuse

How to successfully harness AI to combat fraud and abuse

RSA 2018

Taking down Gooligan part 3 — monetization and clean-up

Taking down Gooligan part 3 — monetization and clean-up

Mar 2018

Taking down Gooligan: part 2 — inner workings

Taking down Gooligan: part 2 — inner workings

Mar 2018

Taking down Gooligan: part 1 — overview

Taking down Gooligan: part 1 — overview

Mar 2018

Hunting down Gooligan — retrospective analysis

Hunting down Gooligan — retrospective analysis

Botconf 2017

Tracking desktop ransomware payments end to end

Tracking desktop ransomware payments end to end

S&P 2018

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

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

CCS 2017

Unmasking the ransomware kingpins

Unmasking the ransomware kingpins

Oct 2017

Exposing the inner-workings of the ransomware economy

Exposing the inner-workings of the ransomware economy

Sep 2017

How to trace ransomware payments end-to-end - an overview

How to trace ransomware payments end-to-end - an overview

Aug 2017

Tracking ransomware payments end to end

Tracking ransomware payments end to end

BH USA 2017

Pinning Down Abuse on Google Maps

Pinning Down Abuse on Google Maps

WWW 2017

Targeted Attack Against Corporate Inboxes A Gmail Perspective

Targeted Attack Against Corporate Inboxes A Gmail Perspective

RSA 2017

Picasso: Lightweight Device Class Fingerprinting for Web Clients

Picasso: Lightweight Device Class Fingerprinting for Web Clients

SPSM 2016

The Abuse Sharing Economy: Understanding the Limits of Threat Exchanges

The Abuse Sharing Economy: Understanding the Limits of Threat Exchanges

RAID 2016

Investigating commercial pay-per-install and the distribution of unwanted software

Investigating commercial pay-per-install and the distribution of unwanted software

Usenix Security 2016

5 useful tips to bulletproof your credit cards against identity theft

5 useful tips to bulletproof your credit cards against identity theft

Jul 2016

Cloak of visibility: detecting when machines browse a different web

Cloak of visibility: detecting when machines browse a different web

S&P 2016

In-depth analysis of the lessons we learned while protecting gmail users

In-depth analysis of the lessons we learned while protecting gmail users

Apr 2016

Lessons learned while protecting Gmail

Lessons learned while protecting Gmail

Enigma 2016

Framing dependencies introduced by underground commoditization

Framing dependencies introduced by underground commoditization

WEIS 2015

How phishing works

How phishing works

Aug 2015

Secrets, lies, and account recovery: lessons from the use of personal knowledge questions at google

Secrets, lies, and account recovery: lessons from the use of personal knowledge questions at google

WWW 2015

Ad injection at scale: assessing deceptive advertisement modifications

Ad injection at scale: assessing deceptive advertisement modifications

S&P 2015

Handcrafted fraud and extortion: manual account hijacking in the wild

Handcrafted fraud and extortion: manual account hijacking in the wild

IMC 2014

Dialing back abuse on phone verified accounts

Dialing back abuse on phone verified accounts

CCS 2014

The end is nigh: generic solving of text-based captchas

The end is nigh: generic solving of text-based captchas

WOOT 2014

Easy does it: more usable captchas

Easy does it: more usable captchas

CHI 2014

When a porn site masquerades as the apple app store

When a porn site masquerades as the apple app store

May 2013

18.4% of us internet users got at least one of their account compromised

18.4% of us internet users got at least one of their account compromised

Jan 2013

The Art of Breaking and Designing CAPTCHAS

The Art of Breaking and Designing CAPTCHAS

RSA 2012

How we broke the nucaptcha video scheme and what we propose to fix it

How we broke the nucaptcha video scheme and what we propose to fix it

Feb 2012

What phishing sites look like ? (study)

What phishing sites look like ? (study)

Nov 2011

Text-based captcha strengths and weaknesses

Text-based captcha strengths and weaknesses

CCS 2011

Reclaiming the blogosphere talkback a secure linkback protocol for weblogs

Reclaiming the blogosphere talkback a secure linkback protocol for weblogs

ESORICS 2011

The failure of noise-based non-continuous audio captchas

The failure of noise-based non-continuous audio captchas

S&P 2011

Five surprising captcha schemes

Five surprising captcha schemes

Mar 2011

Trackback spam abuse and prevention

Trackback spam abuse and prevention

CCSW 2009

Decaptcha breaking 75% of ebay audio captchas

Decaptcha breaking 75% of ebay audio captchas

WOOT 2009