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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Damon McCoy is affiliated with New York University in the United States and has a research focus that spans computer science and social sciences. Their scholarly contributions cover a broad range of topics, particularly emphasizing cybersecurity, social media dynamics, and privacy issues.

The main fields of study for Damon McCoy include:

  • Computer Science
  • Social Sciences

Within these broader categories, their research delves deeper into subfields such as:

  • Information Systems
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Communication
  • Clinical Psychology

The primary topics addressed in McCoy's work are:

  • Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
  • Spam and Phishing Detection
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection

McCoy has published multiple papers in various respected venues. Recent notable publications include:

  • "Dark Web Marketplaces and COVID-19: before the vaccine" (2021), EPJ Data Science
  • "So-called privacy breeds evil" (2021), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Conspiracy Brokers: Understanding the Monetization of YouTube Conspiracy Theories" (2022), Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022
  • "The Tools and Tactics Used in Intimate Partner Surveillance: An Analysis of Online Infidelity Forums" (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "No Privacy Among Spies: Assessing the Functionality and Insecurity of Consumer Android Spyware Apps" (2023), Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Frequent publication venues for McCoy's research are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • EPJ Data Science

Collaboration is a significant aspect of McCoy's academic output, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Rachel Greenstadt
  • Tobias Lauinger
  • Alberto Bracci
  • Matthieu Nadini
  • Maxwell Aliapoulios

Damon McCoy has received the ACM Senior Member award, which was granted in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile

    Karl Koscher;Alexei Czeskis;Franziska Roesner;Shwetak Patel

  • Comprehensive experimental analyses of automotive attack surfaces

    Stephen Checkoway;Damon McCoy;Brian Kantor;Danny Anderson

  • A fistful of bitcoins: characterizing payments among men with no names

    Sarah Meiklejohn;Marjori Pomarole;Grant Jordan;Kirill Levchenko

  • Low-resource routing attacks against tor

    Kevin Bauer;Damon McCoy;Dirk Grunwald;Tadayoshi Kohno

  • Shining Light in Dark Places: Understanding the Tor Network

    Damon Mccoy;Kevin Bauer;Dirk Grunwald;Tadayoshi Kohno

  • Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain

    Kirill Levchenko;Andreas Pitsillidis;Neha Chachra;Brandon Enright

  • An analysis of underground forums

    Marti Motoyama;Damon McCoy;Kirill Levchenko;Stefan Savage

  • Passive data link layer 802.11 wireless device driver fingerprinting

    Jason Franklin;Damon McCoy;Parisa Tabriz;Vicentiu Neagoe

  • Trafficking fraudulent accounts: the role of the underground market in Twitter spam and abuse

    Kurt Thomas;Damon McCoy;Chris Grier;Alek Kolcz

  • Manufacturing compromise: the emergence of exploit-as-a-service

    Chris Grier;Lucas Ballard;Juan Caballero;Neha Chachra

  • Re: CAPTCHAs: understanding CAPTCHA-solving services in an economic context

    Marti Motoyama;Kirill Levchenko;Chris Kanich;Damon McCoy

  • A fistful of Bitcoins: characterizing payments among men with no names

    Sarah Meiklejohn;Marjori Pomarole;Grant Jordan;Kirill Levchenko

  • Tracking Ransomware End-to-end

    Danny Yuxing Huang;Maxwell Matthaios Aliapoulios;Vector Guo Li;Luca Invernizzi

  • Improving wireless privacy with an identifier-free link layer protocol

    Ben Greenstein;Damon McCoy;Jeffrey Pang;Tadayoshi Kohno

  • PharmaLeaks: understanding the business of online pharmaceutical affiliate programs

    Damon McCoy;Andreas Pitsillidis;Grant Jordan;Nicholas Weaver

  • Show me the money: characterizing spam-advertised revenue

    Chris Kanich;Nicholas Weavery;Damon McCoy;Tristan Halvorson

  • The Spyware Used in Intimate Partner Violence

    Rahul Chatterjee;Periwinkle Doerfler;Hadas Orgad;Sam Havron

  • Doppelgänger Finder: Taking Stylometry to the Underground

    Sadia Afroz;Aylin Caliskan Islam;Ariel Stolerman;Rachel Greenstadt

  • Ad Injection at Scale: Assessing Deceptive Advertisement Modifications

    Kurt Thomas;Elie Bursztein;Chris Grier;Grant Ho

  • Framing dependencies introduced by underground commoditization

    Kurt Thomas;Danny Yuxing Huang;David Y. Wang;Elie Bursztein

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirill Levchenko
Kirill Levchenko University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stefan Savage
Stefan Savage University of California, San Diego
Geoffrey M. Voelker
Geoffrey M. Voelker University of California, San Diego
Vern Paxson
Vern Paxson University of California, Berkeley
Dirk Grunwald
Dirk Grunwald University of Colorado Boulder
Douglas Sicker
Douglas Sicker Carnegie Mellon University
Elie Bursztein
Elie Bursztein Google (United States)
Andrea Baronchelli
Andrea Baronchelli City, University of London
Thomas Ristenpart
Thomas Ristenpart Cornell University
Tadayoshi Kohno
Tadayoshi Kohno University of Washington

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