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Facebook is proud to be a Platinum sponsor of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium, held virtually from August 11 to 13, 2021. Facebook is also a Gold sponsor of the Seventeenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), which is co-located virtually with USENIX Security and held from August 8 to 10, 2021. Register for USENIX Security and SOUPS at the link(s) below:

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Wednesday, August 11

11:15 – 11:45am PST

Connect with:

• Yuankai Zhang
• Sharon Ayalde
• Collin Raphael
• Nicole Espinosa: PhD Recruiter, Machine Learning at Facebook
• Nektarios Leontiadis
• Konstantinos (Kostas) Chalkias
• Atyansh Jaiswal
• Abhrajit Ghosh: Software Engineer, Network Security at Facebook
• Cornelius Aschermann
• Michael Parowski: Network Security, Monitoring/Threat Detection

Thursday, August 12

10:45 –11:15am PST

Connect with:

• Sharon Ayalde
• Collin Raphael
• Nicole Espinosa: PhD Recruiter, Machine Learning at Facebook
• Konstantinos (Kostas) Chalkias
• Erin Simons-Brown: Network Security at Facebook
• David Molnar
• Nevena Aleksieva-Hopkins: Engineering Manager, Workplace Account Access at Facebook
• Cornelius Aschermann
• Teng Xu: Engineering Manager, Security/Integrity at Facebook
• Steve Scott: Engineer, Data Center Security at Facebook

Facebook research at USENIX Security & SOUPS

Facebook-affiliated authors are in bold.

Wednesday, August 11

7:30 – 9:15 am PST

Track 1 – Usability: Authentication

• Driving 2FA Adoption at Scale: Optimizing Two-Factor Authentication Notification Design Patterns
  
  Maximilian Golla, Grant Ho, Marika Lohmus, Monica Pulluri, Elissa M. Redmiles

Friday, August 13

9:00 – 10:45 am

Track 2 – Malware and Program Analysis 1

• When Malware Changed Its Mind: An Empirical Study of Variable Program Behaviors in the Real World
  
  Erin Avllazagaj, Ziyun Zhu, Leyla Bilge, Davide Balzarotti, Tudor Dumitras

11:15 am – 1:00 pm PST

Track 2 – DDOS; Wireless Security

• Stars Can Tell: A Robust Method to Defend against GPS Spoofing Attacks using Off-the-shelf Chipset
  
  Shinan Liu, Xiang Cheng, Hanchao Yang, Yuanchao Shu, Xiaoran Weng, Ping Guo, Kexiong (Curtis) Zeng, Gang Wang, Yaling Yang

1:15 – 2:45 pm PST

Track 1 – Measurements off Fraud, Malware, Spam, and Other Abuse

• Deep Entity Classification: Abusive Account Detection for Online Social Networks
  Teng Xu, Gerard Goossen, Huseyin Kerem Cevahir, Sara Khodeir, Yingyezhe Jin, Frank Li, Shawn Shan, Sagar Patel, David Freeman, Paul Pearce
• SocialHEISTing: Understanding Stolen Facebook Accounts
  
  Jeremiah Onaolapo, Nektarios Leontiadis, Despoina Magka, Gianluca Stringhini