Publications

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Journal Articles


Conference Papers


Minding the Semantic Gap for Effective Storage-Based Ransomware Defense

Published in International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST), 2024

Weidong Zhu, Grant Hernandez, Washington Garcia, Hunter Searle, Dave (Jing) Tian, Sara Rampazzi and Kevin Butler. Minding the Semantic Gap for Effective Storage-Based Ransomware Defense. In Proceedings of the 50th International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST), 2024.
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Deep Note: Can Acoustic Interference Damage the Availability of Hard Disk Storage in Underwater Data Centers? (SK Hynix Best Paper Award)

Published in ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2023

Jennifer Sheldon, Weidong Zhu, Adnan Abdullah, Kevin Butler, Md Jahidul Islam, and Sara Rampazzi. Deep Note: Can Acoustic Interference Damage the Availability of Hard Disk Storage in Underwater Data Centers? In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2023.
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HallMonitor: A Framework for Identifying Network Policy Violations in Software

Published in IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2022

Daniel Olszewski, Weidong Zhu, Sandeep Sathyanarayana, Kevin Butler and Patrick Traynor. HallMonitor: A Framework for Identifying Network Policy Violations in Software. In Proceedings of 2022 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2022.

Emulating Samsung’s Baseband for Security Testing

Published in BlackHat USA, 2020

Grant Hernandez, Marius Muench, Tyler Tucker, Hunter Serle, Weidong Zhu, Patrick Traynor and Kevin Butler. Emulating Samsung’s Baseband for Security Testing. BlackHat USA, 2020.