Jelena Mirkovic

Jelena Mirkovic is Project Leader at USC/ISI and Research Faculty at USC. She received her MS and PhD from UCLA, working in the LASR group, lead by Prof. Peter Reiher. She received BS in Computer Science and Engineering from School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Jelena's reseach interests span networking, security and distributed systems fields. Please explore her ISI Web page for more info.

Projects

Publications

A S M Rizvi, Jelena Mirkovic, John Heidemann, Wesley Hardaker and Robert Story, "Defending Root DNS Servers Against DDoS Using Layered Defenses," In Proceedings of IEEE COMSNETS, 2023, 2023
Zhiying Xu, Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Alexander Ruth, Jelena Mirkovic and Minlan Yu, "Xatu: Boosting Existing DDoS Detection Systems Using Auxiliary Signals," In Proceedings of CoNext, 2022, 2022
Xiyue Deng and Jelena Mirkovic, "Polymorphic Malware Behavior Through Network Trace Analysis," In Proceedings of International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), 2022, 2022
Nicolaas Weideman, Haoda Wang, Tyler Kann, Spencer Zahabizadeh, Wei-Cheng Wu, Rajat Tandon, Jelena Mirkovic and Christophe Hauser, "Harm-DoS: Hash Algorithm Replacement for Mitigating Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities in Binary Executables," In Proceedings of RAID, 2022, 2022
Rajat Tandon, Pithayuth Charnsethikul, Ishank Arora, Dhiraj Murthy and Jelena Mirkovic, "I know what you did on Venmo: Discovering privacy leaks in mobile social payments," In Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2022, 2022
David Balenson, Terry Benzel, Eric Eide, David Emmerich, David Johnson, Jelena Mirkovic and Laura Tinnel, "Toward Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable Cybersecurity Artifacts," In Proceedings of Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET), 2022, 2022
Rajat Tandon, Pithayuth Charnsethikul, Michalis Kallitsis and Jelena Mirkovic, "AMON-SENSS: Scalable and Accurate Detection of Volumetric DDoS Attacks at ISPs," In Proceedings of Globecom, 2022, 2022
Le Binh, Rajat Tandon, Chingis Oinar, Jeffrey Liu, Uma Durairaj, Jiani Guo, Spencer Zahabizadeh, Sanjana Ilango, Jeremy Tang, Fred Morstatter, Simon Woo and Jelena Mirkovic, "Samba: Identifying Inappropriate Videos for Young Children on YouTube," In Proceedings of 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CKIM), 2022, 2022
Rajat Tandon, Abhinav Palia, Jaydeep Ramani, Brandon Paulsen, Genevieve Bartlett, Jelena Mirkovic, "Defending Web Servers Against Flash Crowd Attacks," In Proceedings of International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), 2021, 2021
Jelena Mirkovic and Portia Pusey, "User Experiences with Network Testbeds," In Proceedings of Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET), 2021, 2021
Sean Peisert, Bruce Schneier, Hamed Okhravi, Fabio Massacci, Terry Benzel, Carl Landwehr, Mohammad Mannan, Jelena Mirkovic, Atul Prakash and James Bret Michael, "Perspectives on the SolarWinds Incident," IEEE Security & Privacy, volume 19, number 2, pp 7-13, 2021, 2021
Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Anushah Hossain, Jelena Mirkovic, Minlan Yu, Sadia Afroz, "Quantifying the Impact of Blocklisting in the Age of Address Reuse," In Proceedings of Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2020, 2020
Jelena Mirkovic, Aashray Aggarwal, David Weinman, Paul Lepe, Jens Mache and Richard Weiss, "Using Terminal Histories to Monitor Student Progress on Hands-on Exercises," In Proceedings of SIGCSE, 2020, 2020
Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Jelena Mirkovic and Minlan Yu, "BLAG: Improving the Accuracy of Blacklists," In Proceedings of Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), 2020, 2020
Rajat Tandon, Jelena Mirkovic, Pithayuth Charnsethikul, "Quantifying Cloud Misbehavior," In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), 2020, 2020
Xiyue Deng and Jelena Mirkovic, "Malware Behavior Through Network Trace Analysis," In Proceedings of International Networking Conference (INC), 2020, 2020
J. Mirkovic and S. S. Woo, "Designing for Fallible Humans," In Proceedings of Humans and CyberSecurity Workshop (HACS) - Invited paper, 2019, 2019
Rajat Tandon, Abhinav Palia, Jaydeep Ramani, Brandon Paulsen, Genevieve Bartlett and Jelena Mirkovic, "Defending Web Servers Against Flash Crowd Attacks," In Proceedings of MERIT Workshop (ICNP), 2019, 2019
Paul Lepe, Aashray Aggarwal, Jelena Mirkovic, Jens Mache, Richard Weiss and David Weinmann, "Measuring Student Learning On Network Testbeds," In Proceedings of MERIT Workshop (ICNP), 2019, 2019
Simon S. Woo, Ron Artstein, Elsi Kaiser, Xiao Le and Jelena Mirkovic, "Using Episodic Memory for User Authentication," ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, volume 22, number 2, 2019, 2019
Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Jelena Mirkovic and Minlan Yu, "Blacklists Assemble: Aggregating Blacklists for Accuracy," Information Sciences Institute technical report number ISI-TR-730, 2018, 2018
Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Jelena Mirkovic, Minlan Yu and Ying Zhang, "SENSS Against Volumetric DDoS Attacks," In Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2018, 2018
Hao Shi, Jelena Mirkovic and Abdulla Alwabel, "Handling Anti-Virtual Machine Techniques in Malicious Software," ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), volume 21, number 1, pp. , 2018, 2018
Jelena Mirkovic, Genevieve Bartlett and James Blythe, "DEW: Distributed Experiment Workflows ," In Proceedings of CSET, 2018, 2018
Xiyue Deng and Jelena Mirkovic, "Malware Analysis through High-Level Behavior ," In Proceedings of CSET, 2018, 2018
Simon S. Woo and Jelena Mirkovic, "GuidedPass: Helping Users to Create Strong and Memorable Passwords ," In Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2018, 2018
Ameya Hanamsagar, Simon S. Woo, Chris Kanich and Jelena Mirkovic, "Leveraging Semantic Transformation to Investigate Password Habits and Their Causes ," In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2018, 2018
Hao Shi, Jelena Mirkovic,, "Hiding Debuggers from Malware with Apate," In Proceedings of ACM SAC, 2017, 2017
Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Pravein Kannan, Chan Mun Choon, Jelena Mirkovic and Keith Sklower, "Enabling SDN Experimentation in Network Testbeds," In Proceedings of ACM SDNNFV Security Workshop, 2017, 2017
Jelena Mirkovic,Genevieve Bartlett, John Heidemann, Hao Shi and Xiyue Deng, "Do You See Me Now? Sparsity in Passive Observations of Address Liveness ," In Proceedings of Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA), 2017, 2017
Xiyue Deng, Hao Shi and Jelena Mirkovic, "Understanding Malwareâ€™s Network Behaviors using Fantasm," In Proceedings of LASER Workshop, 2017, 2017
Xiyue Deng and Jelena Mirkovic, "Commoner Privacy And A Study On Network Traces," In Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2017, 2017
Jelena Mirkovic, Erik Kline and Peter Reiher, "RESECT: Self-Learning Traffic Filters for IP Spoofing Defense," In Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2017, 2017
Simon Woo, Zuyao Li, Jelena Mirkovic, "Good Automatic Authentication Question Generation," In Proceedings of International Natural Language Generation Conference, 2016, 2016
Simon Woo, Elsi Keiser, Ron Artstein and Jelena Mirkovic, "Life-Experience Passwords (LEPs)," In Proceedings of Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2016, 2016
Simon Woo and Jelena Mirkovic, "Improving Recall and Security of Passphrases through Use of Mnemonics," In Proceedings of Passwords Conference, 2016, 2016
Jelena Mirkovic, Aimee Tabor, Simon Woo, Portia Pusey, "Engaging Novices in Cybersecurity Competitions: A Vision and Lessons Learned at ACM Tapia 2015," In Proceedings of USENIX Summit on Gaming, Games and Gamification in Security Education (3GSE), 2015, 2015
Genevieve Bartlett and Jelena Mirkovic, "Expressing Different Traffic Models Using The LegoTG Framework," In Proceedings of Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds (CNERT), 2015, 2015
J. Mirkovic and G. Bartlett, "LegoTG: Composable Traffic Generation with a Custom Blueprint," Information Sciences Institute technical report number ISI-TR-699, 2015, 2015
J Mirkovic, M Dark, W Du, G Vigna and T Denning, "Evaluating Cybersecurity Education Interventions: Three Case Studies," IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, volume 13, number 3, pp. 63-69, 2015, 2015
M. Dark and J. Mirkovic, "Evaluation Theory and Practice Applied to Cybersecurity Education," IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, volume 13, number 2, pp. 75-80, 2015, 2015
J. Mirkovic, P. A. H. Peterson, "Class Capture-the-Flag Exercises," In Proceedings of USENIX Summit on Gaming, Games and Gamification in Security Education (3GSE), 2014, 2014
J. Mirkovic and P. A. H. Peterson, "Class Capture-the-Flag Exercises," In Proceedings of USENIX Summit on Gaming, Games and Gamification in Security Education, 2014, 2014
Simon S. Woo and Jelena Mirkovic, "Optimal application allocation on multiple public clouds," Elsevier Computer Networks, volume 68, number , pp. 138-148, 2014, 2014
V. Sharma, G. Bartlett and J. Mirkovic, "Critter: Content-Rich Traffic Trace Repository," In Proceedings of Workshop on Information Sharing and Collaborative Security (WISCS), 2014, 2014
H. Shi, A. Alwabel, and J. Mirkovic, "Cardinal Pill Testing of System Virtual Machines," In Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium, 2014, 2014
S. Woo, J. Mirkovic, E. Kaiser and R. Artstein, "Life-Experience Passwords (LEPs)," In Proceedings of Who are you? Adventures in Authentication Workshop, 2014, 2014
A. Alwabel, H. Shi, G. Bartlett and J. Mirkovic, "Safe and Automated Live Malware Experimentation on Public Testbeds," In Proceedings of CSET, 2014, 2014
H. Shi, A. Alwabel, and J. Mirkovic, "Cardinal Pill Testing of System Virtual Machines," In Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium, 2014, 2014
J. Mirkovic and T. Benzel, "Teaching Cybersecurity with DeterLab," IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, volume 10, number 1, pp. 73-76, 2012, 2012
J. Mirkovic, A. Alwabel and T. Faber., "Beyond Disk Imaging for Preserving User State in Network Testbeds," In Proceedings of CSET, 2012, 2012
J. Mirkovic, H. Shi and A. Hussain, "Reducing Allocation Errors in Network Testbeds," In Proceedings of Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2012, 2012
A. Viswanathan, A. Hussain, J. Wroclawski, S. Schwab and J. Mirkovic, "A Semantic Framework for Data Analysis in Networked Systems," In Proceedings of the Networked System Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2011, 2011
Jelena Mirkovic, Mike Ryan, John Hickey, Keith Sklower, Peter Reiher, Peter A. H. Peterson, Brent H. Kang, Mooi Choo Chuah, Daniel Massey and Gisele Ragusa, "Teaching Security with Network Testbeds," In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Education, 2011, 2011
Jelena Mirkovic, "Chapter on "Collaborative DDoS Defenses" in Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security, 2nd Edition," Springer, 2011, 2011
J. Mirkovic and E. Kissel, "Comparative Evaluation of Spoofing Defenses," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, volume 8, number 2, pp. 218-232, 2011, 2011
J. Mirkovic, T. Benzel. S. Schwab, J. Wroclawski, T. Faber and B. Braden, "The DETER Project: Advancing the Science of Cyber Security Experimentation and Test," In Proceedings of IEEE Homeland Security Technologies Conference (IEEE HST), 2010, 2010
S.Wei, A. Hussain, J. Mirkovic and C. Ko,, "Tools for worm experimentation on the DETER testbed," International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS), volume 5, number 1/2, pp. 151-171, 2010, 2010
G. Oikonomou and J. Mirkovic, "Modeling Human Behavior for Defense against Flash Crowd Attacks," In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2009, 2009
E. Kline, M. Beaumont-Gay, J. Mirkovic and P. Reiher, "RAD: Reflector Attack Defense Using Message Authentication Codes," In Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2009, 2009