The Northeastern University Systems Security Lab

We research tools and techniques for making the Internet a safer place.
And, sometimes, we even discover new attacks.

News and Press

Omid Mirzaei gave a talk about the security work going on at CISCO.

19 August 2024

Changming and Alejandro attended USENIX Sec for the lab.

16 May 2024

Congratulations to Changming for the acceptance of his USENIX Sec paper!

Research

Our lab has a focus on practical security research, and we are active in a number of areas spanning systems and network security. Some of our particular research interests include mobile security, web security, security applications of program analysis, botnets, and malware. In general, we are interested in all practical security problems.

Publications

We publish in a number of venues, including IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland), ACM CCS, USENIX Security, and NDSS. For a full list of our publications, see our publications list.