Collin Jackson

Collin Jackson is an assistant research professor at CyLab and INI. He is based at the Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley campus. His research focuses on the security of browsers and web applications. Visit Dr. Jackson's website for more.

Education

PhD, 2009, Computer Science, Stanford University
MS, 2008, Computer Science, Stanford University

Additional Resources

CyLab News

CyLab Deepens & Enriches Online Content with Five New Videos for You Tube & iTunes
USENIX Security 2011: CyLab Researchers Release Study on Illicit Online Drug Trade and Attacks on Pharma Industry
CyLab and INI Boost Information Assurance Education with Ninth IACBP
Spring 2011 CyLab Silicon Valley Briefing Focuses on Smart Grid, Healthcare and Web Platforms
CyLab Research has Powerful Impact on 2010 IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy

CyLab Chronicles

Cross Cutting Thrusts

Software Security

Usable Privacy and Security

Current Projects:

Security for Cloud Clients with Rich Controlled Sharing

Evaluating and Improving Browser Encryption

Recent Projects:

Protecting Browsers from Mixed Content Injection Attacks

recent publications

Regular Expressions Considered Harmful in Client-Side XSS Filters, Daniel Bates, Adam Barth, and Collin Jackson. To appear in Proc. of the 19th International World Wide Web Conference. (WWW 2010) [pdf]

Attacks on JavaScript Mashup Communication,, Adam Barth, Collin Jackson, and William Li, In Proc. of Web 2.0 Security and Privacy 2009 (W2SP 2009) [pdf]

Rootkits for JavaScript Environments, Ben Adida, Adam Barth, and Collin Jackson. In Proc. of 3rd USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT 2009) [pdf]

Robust Defenses for Cross-Site Request Forgery, Adam Barth, Collin Jackson, and John C. Mitchell. In Proc. of the 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. (CCS 2008) [pdf]