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Overview

Cristiano Giuffrida is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to research in computer science, particularly focusing on security and verification in computing. Their work spans numerous subfields including artificial intelligence, signal processing, software, information systems, and hardware and architecture.

Their research addresses several specialized topics such as security and verification in computing, advanced malware detection techniques, software testing and debugging techniques, software engineering research, parallel computing and optimization techniques, distributed systems and fault tolerance, and cloud data security solutions.

Giuffrida's recent publications reflect a focus on computer security and software systems. Notable papers include:

  • Cupid: Automatic Fuzzer Selection for Collaborative Fuzzing, 2020, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
  • DangZero, 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • Mitigating Information Leakage Vulnerabilities with Type-based Data Isolation, 2022, 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
  • Don't Look UB: Exposing Sanitizer-Eliding Compiler Optimizations, 2023, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Benchmarking Flaws Undermine Security Research, 2020, IEEE Security & Privacy

Frequent collaborators of Giuffrida include Herbert Bos, Erik van der Kouwe, Dennis Andriesse, Gernot Heiser, and Elia Geretto. Collaboration with these co-authors indicates active engagement in joint research efforts primarily related to security and computing.

The venues where Giuffrida has published repeatedly include:

  • IEEE Security & Privacy
  • Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Giuffrida's primary field of study is computer science with 24 related publications. Their work demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach involving artificial intelligence, software engineering, and security systems, contributing to advancing understanding and technology in these domains.

Best Publications

  • VUzzer: Application-aware Evolutionary Fuzzing.

    Sanjay Rawat;Vivek Jain;Ashish Kumar;Lucian Cojocar

  • RIDL: Rogue In-Flight Data Load

    Stephan van Schaik;Alyssa Milburn;Sebastian Osterlund;Pietro Frigo

  • Drammer: Deterministic Rowhammer Attacks on Mobile Platforms

    Victor van der Veen;Yanick Fratantonio;Martina Lindorfer;Daniel Gruss

  • Enhanced operating system security through efficient and fine-grained address space randomization

    Cristiano Giuffrida;Anton Kuijsten;Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  • Practical Context-Sensitive CFI

    Victor van der Veen;Dennis Andriesse;Enes Göktaş;Ben Gras

  • ASLR on the Line: Practical Cache Attacks on the MMU.

    Ben Gras;Kaveh Razavi;Erik Bosman;Herbert Bos

  • Dedup Est Machina: Memory Deduplication as an Advanced Exploitation Vector

    Erik Bosman;Kaveh Razavi;Herbert Bos;Cristiano Giuffrida

  • A Tough Call: Mitigating Advanced Code-Reuse Attacks at the Binary Level

    Victor van der Veen;Enes Goktas;Moritz Contag;Andre Pawoloski

  • Translation leak-aside buffer : Defeating cache side-channel protections with TLB attacks

    Ben Gras;Kaveh Razavi;Herbert Bos;Cristiano Giuffrida

  • Flip Feng Shui: Hammering a Needle in the Software Stack

    Kaveh Razavi;Ben Gras;Erik Bosman;Bart Preneel

  • A heuristic approach to author name disambiguation in bibliometrics databases for large-scale research assessments

    Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo;Cristiano Giuffrida;Giovanni Abramo

  • Exploiting Correcting Codes: On the Effectiveness of ECC Memory Against Rowhammer Attacks

    Lucian Cojocar;Kaveh Razavi;Cristiano Giuffrida;Herbert Bos

  • I Sensed It Was You: Authenticating Mobile Users with Sensor-enhanced Keystroke Dynamics

    Cristiano Giuffrida;Kamil Majdanik;Mauro Conti;Herbert Bos

  • TRRespass: Exploiting the Many Sides of Target Row Refresh

    Pietro Frigo;Emanuele Vannacc;Hasan Hassan;Victor van der Veen

  • Grand Pwning Unit: Accelerating Microarchitectural Attacks with the GPU

    Pietro Frigo;Cristiano Giuffrida;Herbert Bos;Kaveh Razavi

  • No Need to Hide: Protecting Safe Regions on Commodity Hardware

    Koen Koning;Xi Chen;Herbert Bos;Cristiano Giuffrida

  • Terminal brain damage: exposing the graceless degradation in deep neural networks under hardware fault attacks

    Sanghyun Hong;Pietro Frigo;Yiğitcan Kaya;Cristiano Giuffrida

  • Throwhammer: Rowhammer Attacks over the Network and Defenses

    Andrei Tatar;Radhesh Krishnan Konoth;Elias Athanasopoulos;Cristiano Giuffrida

  • StackArmor: Comprehensive Protection From Stack-based Memory Error Vulnerabilities for Binaries

    Xi Chen;Asia Slowinska;Dennis Andriesse;Herbert Bos

  • CrossTalk: Speculative Data Leaks Across Cores Are Real

    Hany Ragab;Alyssa Milburn;Kaveh Razavi;Herbert Bos

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert Bos
Herbert Bos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Andrew S. Tanenbaum Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Thorsten Holz
Thorsten Holz Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Bruno Crispo
Bruno Crispo University of Trento
Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo
Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo University of Rome Tor Vergata
Giovanni Abramo
Giovanni Abramo Mercatorum University
Gernot Heiser
Gernot Heiser University of New South Wales
Bart Preneel
Bart Preneel KU Leuven
Mauro Conti
Mauro Conti University of Padua
Onur Mutlu
Onur Mutlu ETH Zurich

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