Call for Papers: Workshop on Measurements, Attacks, and Defenses for the Web (MADWeb) 2023

The web connects billions of devices, running a plethora of clients, and serves billions of users every day. To cope with such a widespread adoption, the web constantly changes. This is evident by some browsers that have a release cycle of just six weeks. These rapid changes are not always studied from a security perspective, resulting in new attack vectors that were never observed before.

The proposed workshop aims to attract researchers that work on the intersection of browser evolution and web security. Our goal is to create and sustain a new venue for discussing the rapid changes to browsers from a security perspective, the security implications of current web technologies, how we can protect users now, and make browsers in the future more secure without hindering the evolution of the web.

Areas of Interest

Submissions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:

Fingerprinting and tracking on the web
Browser exploitation
Secure browser architectures
Security policies for the web
Security of progressive web apps
Measurement studies of online crime, fraud, and underground economies
Measurement studies of web security & privacy issues
Privacy-enhancing technologies for the web
Security and privacy of emerging web technologies
Machine learning and AI applications for a secure web
Data-driven web security and malware detection
Anti-phishing technologies
Detection of bots and crawlers/scrapers
DNS security and privacy
Unethical and malicious activity on the web
Digital forensics for the web

Submission Instructions

All papers must be written in English. Papers must be formatted for US letter size (not A4) paper in a two-column layout, with columns no more than 9.25 in. high and 3.5 in. wide. The text must be in Times font, 10-point or larger, with 11-point or larger line spacing. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the templates provided by NDSS.

We invite both full papers and short papers. Full papers should have no more than 10 pages in total (excluding references and appendices). Short papers must have less than 6 pages (again, excluding references and appendices), and can discuss work-in-progress and novel ideas. Short papers will be selected based on their potential to spark interesting discussions during the workshop.

Submissions must be properly anonymized for double-blind review (please follow NDSS guidelines on paper anonymization).

Submission site: https://madweb23.hotcrp.com/

Important Dates

Paper submission: (extended) January 6, 2023 Anywhere-on-earth (AOE)
Acceptance notification: January 27, 2023
Camera-ready deadline: February 7, 2023
Workshop date: March 3, 2023 (co-located with NDSS 2023)

Workshop Format

MADWeb will be co-located with NDSS 2023. MADWeb will be an on-site event.

One author of each accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the workshop. The format will be traditional conference-style research presentations with questions from the audience. Interactive and engaging presentations are welcomed. Following notification to authors, more information will be provided regarding speaking times and other details.

The accepted papers will be made available on the workshop website and the workshop will have official proceedings. Publication in the proceedings is not mandatory and authors can choose to have their papers excluded from the official proceedings by selecting “No proceedings” during submission in HotCRP.

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Aurore Fass, Stanford University
Zubair Shafiq, University of California, Davis

Program Committee

Adam Oest, Paypal
Amin Kharraz, Florida International University
Anastasia Shuba, DuckDuckGo
Billy Melicher, Palo Alto Networks
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Douglas Leith, Trinity College, Dublin
Gunes Acar, Radboud University
Imane Fouad, Univ Lille, Inria Lille
Iskander Sanchez-Rola, NortonLifeLock Research Group
Luca Compagna, SAP Security Research
Marco Squarcina, TU Wien
Marius Steffens, Google

Muhammad Ahmad Bashir, Google
Nataliia Bielova, Inria Sophia Antipolis
Peter Snyder, Brave Software
Phani Vadrevu, University of New Orleans
Pierre Laperdrix, CNRS, Univ Lille, Inria Lille
Rahmadi Trimananda, University of California, Irvine
Rishab Nithyanand, University of Iowa
Sajjad JJ Arshad, Google
Shehroze Farooqi, University of Iowa
Shubham Agarwal, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Stefano Calzavara, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Tom Van Goethem, Google
Victor Le Pochat, KU Leuven
Yinzhi Cao, Johns Hopkins University

Steering Committee

Alexandros Kapravelos, North Carolina State University
Nick Nikiforakis, Stony Brook University
Oleksii Starov, Palo Alto Networks
Roberto Perdisci, University of Georgia