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TATA: Stance Detection via Topic-Agnostic and Topic-Aware Embeddings
Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric
Stance detection is important for understanding different attitudes and beliefs on the Internet. However, given that a passage's stance toward a given topic is often highly depende…
Cloud Watching: Understanding Attacks Against Cloud-Hosted Services
Liz Izhikevich, Manda Tran, Michalis Kallitsis +2
Cloud computing has dramatically changed service deployment patterns. In this work, we analyze how attackers identify and target cloud services in contrast to traditional enterpris…
Stratosphere: Finding Vulnerable Cloud Storage Buckets
Jack Cable, Drew Gregory, Liz Izhikevich +1
Misconfigured cloud storage buckets have leaked hundreds of millions of medical, voter, and customer records. These breaches are due to a combination of easily-guessable bucket nam…
ZDNS: A Fast DNS Toolkit for Internet Measurement
Liz Izhikevich, Gautam Akiwate, Briana Berger +5
Active DNS measurement is fundamental to understanding and improving the DNS ecosystem. However, the absence of an extensible, high-performance, and easy-to-use DNS toolkit has lim…
Watch Your Language: Investigating Content Moderation with Large Language Models
Deepak Kumar, Yousef AbuHashem, Zakir Durumeric
Large language models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity due to their ability to perform a wide array of natural language tasks. Text-based content moderation is one LLM use case t…
Specious Sites: Tracking the Spread and Sway of Spurious News Stories at Scale
Hans W. A. Hanley, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric
Misinformation, propaganda, and outright lies proliferate on the web, with some narratives having dangerous real-world consequences on public health, elections, and individual safe…
Twits, Toxic Tweets, and Tribal Tendencies: Trends in Politically Polarized Posts on Twitter
Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric
Social media platforms are often blamed for exacerbating political polarization and worsening public dialogue. Many claim that hyperpartisan users post pernicious content, slanted…
Democratizing LEO Satellite Network Measurement
Liz Izhikevich, Manda Tran, Katherine Izhikevich +2
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks are quickly gaining traction with promises of impressively low latency, high bandwidth, and global reach. However, the research community k…
Machine-Made Media: Monitoring the Mobilization of Machine-Generated Articles on Misinformation and Mainstream News Websites
Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric
As large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have gained traction, an increasing number of news websites have begun utilizing them to generate articles. However, not only can these…
Predicting IPv4 Services Across All Ports
Liz Izhikevich, Renata Teixeira, Zakir Durumeric
Internet-wide scanning is commonly used to understand the topology and security of the Internet. However, IPv4 Internet scans have been limited to scanning only a subset of service…
Hate Raids on Twitch: Echoes of the Past, New Modalities, and Implications for Platform Governance
Catherine Han, Joseph Seering, Deepak Kumar +2
In the summer of 2021, users on the livestreaming platform Twitch were targeted by a wave of "hate raids," a form of attack that overwhelms a streamer's chatroom with hateful messa…
LZR: Identifying Unexpected Internet Services
Liz Izhikevich, Renata Teixeira, Zakir Durumeric
Internet-wide scanning is a commonly used research technique that has helped uncover real-world attacks, find cryptographic weaknesses, and understand both operator and miscreant b…
Sub-Standards and Mal-Practices: Misinformation's Role in Insular, Polarized, and Toxic Interactions on Reddit
Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric
In this work, we examine the influence of unreliable information on political incivility and toxicity on the social media platform Reddit. We show that comments on articles from un…
A Golden Age: Conspiracy Theories' Relationship with Misinformation Outlets, News Media, and the Wider Internet
Hans W. A. Hanley, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric
Do we live in a "Golden Age of Conspiracy Theories?" In the last few decades, conspiracy theories have proliferated on the Internet with some having dangerous real-world consequenc…
Partial Mobilization: Tracking Multilingual Information Flows Amongst Russian Media Outlets and Telegram
Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric
In response to disinformation and propaganda from Russian online media following the invasion of Ukraine, Russian media outlets such as Russia Today and Sputnik News were banned th…