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Yinzhi Cao
Yinzhi Cao

About Me

Graduate Student

My research is about Web Security. I focus on the architecture and management of client-side Browsers, and JavaScript/HTML/CSS languages. I am familiar with the source codes of WebKit.

yinzhi DOT cao AT eecs DOT northwestern DOT edu

Contact

Ford Building 2-207
847-467-6341

Connections

  Yan Chen
 

Publications

1) Redefining Web Browser Principals with a Congurable Origin Policy,

Yinzhi Cao, Vaibhav Rastogi, Zhichun Li, Yan Chen, and Alex Moshchuk,

to appear in the Proceeding of The Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Network - Dependable Computing and Communications Symposium (DSN - DCCS), 2013.

 

2) De-obfuscation and Detection of Malicious PDF Files with High Accuracy,

Xun Lu, Jianwei Zhuge, Ruoyu Wang, Yinzhi Cao and Yan Chen,

in the Proceeding of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2013.

 

3) Rake: Semantics Assisted Network-based Tracing Framework,

Yao Zhao, Yinzhi Cao, Yan Chen, Ming Zhang and Anup Goyal,

in IEEE Trans. on Network and Service Management (TNSM), 2012.

 

4) Virtual Browser: a Virtualized Browser to Sandbox Third-party JavaScripts with Enhanced Security,

Yinzhi Cao, Zhichun Li, Vaibhav Rastogi, Yan Chen and Xitao Wen,

in the Proceeding of ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS),2012.

 

5) PathCutter: Severing the Self-Propagation Path of XSS JavaScript Worms in Social Web Networks,

Yinzhi Cao, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phil Porras and Yan Chen,

in Proceeding of the Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2012.

 

6) WebShield: Enabling Various Web Defense Techniques without Client Side Modications,

Zhichun Li, Yi Tang, Yinzhi Cao, Vaibhav Rastogi, Yan Chen and Bin Liu,

in Proceeding of the Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2011.

 

7) Rake: Semantics Assisted Network-based Tracing Framework,

Yao Zhao, Yinzhi Cao, Anup Goyal, Yan Chen and Ming Zhang,

in Proceeding of International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2011.

 

8) Virtual Browser: a Web-Level Sandbox to Protect Third-Party JavaScript without Sacricing Functionality,

Yinzhi Cao, Zhichun Li, Vaibhav Rastogi and Yan Chen,

poster paper in Proceeding of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2010


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