Beyond vetting donors

Visible skepticism: Community vetting after Hurricane Irene

Social media enable rapid, peer-to-peer information flow during crisis events, affordances that have both positive and negative consequences. The potential for spreading misinformation is a significant concern. Drawing on an empirical study of information-sharing practices in a crisis-affected community in the Catskill Mountains after Hurricane Irene, this paper describes how an ad hoc group of...

VEX: Vetting Browser Extensions for Security Vulnerabilities

The browser has become the de facto platform for everyday computation. Among the many potential attacks that target or exploit browsers, vulnerabilities in browser extensions have received relatively little attention. Currently, extensions are vetted by manual inspection, which does not scale well and is subject to human error. In this paper, we present VEX, a framework for highlighting potenti...

Precisely and Scalably Vetting JavaScript Bridge in Android Hybrid Apps

In this paper, we propose a novel system, named BridgeScope, for precise and scalable vetting of JavaScript Bridge security issues in Android hybrid apps. BridgeScope is flexible and can be leveraged to analyze a diverse set of WebView implementations, such as Android’s default WebView, and Mozilla’s Rhino-based WebView. Furthermore, BridgeScope can automatically generate test exploit code to f...

Donors, donors, and more donors.

The safety of healthy peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) donors receiving recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rhG-CSF) is a topic that has received considerable attention in recent literature.1-3 The short-term adverse events related to both mobilization and collection as well as the problem of long-term safety monitoring have been discussed extensively, although the latter ...

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