Tung Tran

  • I am a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University, New York.
  • I am a member of Secure Systems Lab and my advisor is Prof.R Sekar.
  • My research interests include network security, software security and web security.

  • News

    - Our SBU team ranked third at the CSAW (Cyber Security Awareness Week) Capture the Flag (CTF), September 2010 CSAW CTF
    - In 10 days, we scanned and found half of million websites vulnerable to SQL injection and XSS, April 2010

    Publications

    Reported Vulnerabilities
    Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities in Blackboard due to persistent Cross Site Scripting and Authorization bugs, October 2010 [pdf]

    Conferences
    Tung Tran, Ehab Al-Shaer, Issam Aib and Raouf Boutaba, An Evasive Attack on SNORT Flowbits, The 13th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Maui, Hawaii, USA, April 2012 [pdf]
    Issam Aib, Tung Tran, and Raouf Boutaba, Characterization and Solution to A Stateful IDS Evasion, The 29th IEEE Int’l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 2009 [pdf]
    Adel El-Atawy, Ehab Al-Shaer, Tung Tran and Raouf Boutaba, Adaptive Early Packet Filtering for Protecting Firewalls against DoS Attacks, IEEE INFOCOM, Brazil, April 2009 [pdf]
    Tung Tran, Ehab Al-Shaer and Raouf Boutaba, PolicyVis: Firewall Security Policy Visualization and Inspection, USENIX LISA, Dallas, Texas, USA, November 2007 [pdf]


    Technical Reports
    Tung Tran, Issam Aib, Ehab Al-Shaer, and Raouf Boutaba, Evasive Attack on Stateful Signature-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems, Techical Report CS-2008-18, University of Waterloo [pdf]

    Theses
    Tung Tran, Misconfiguration Analysis of Network Access Control Policies, M.Math Thesis, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science , University of Waterloo, February 2009 [pdf]


    Links

    - Niranjan, my labmate, has created a good list of security conferences here

    Resume

    Available on request.

    Contact Information

    E-mail: ttran [at] cs [dot] sunysb [dot] edu
    Phone: 631-655-1188