Enze "Alex" Liu

Computer Security and Privacy Researcher

Research


ACM WWW
2024 (Oral)
Unfiltered: Measuring Cloud-based Email Filtering Bypasses
Sumanth Rao, Enze Liu, Grant Ho, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW '24 Oral)
[Paper]
ACM CSCW
2024
NewsGuesser: Using Curiosity to Reduce Selective Exposure
Lu Sun, Hengyuan Zhang, Enze Liu, Mingyang Liu, Kristen Vaccaro
Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW '24)
[Paper]
WORDS
2023
Limited Access: The Truth Behind Far Memory
Anil Yelam, Stewart Grant, Enze Liu, Radhika Niranjan Mysore, Marcos K. Aguilera, Amy Ousterhout, Alex C. Snoeren
Proceedings of the Workshop on Resource Disaggregation and Serverless Computing (WORDS '23)
[Paper]
SOUPS
2023
Understanding the Viability of Gmail's Origin Indicator for Identifying the Sender
Enze Liu, Lu Sun, Alex Bellon, Grant Ho, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage, Imani N. S. Munyaka
Proceedings of the 19th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS '23)
[Paper] [Slides]
IEEE EuroS&P
2023
Forward Pass: On the Security Implications of Email Forwarding Mechanism and Policy
Enze Liu, Gautam Akiwate, Mattijs Jonker, Ariana Mirian, Grant Ho, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage
Proceedings of the 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P '23)
[Paper] Best Paper Award (1/180) Finalist at CSAW 2023 Applied Research Competition (10/161)
Media Coverage: The Register, Cyberscoop
Invited Talks at: ICANN DNSSEC Workshop, M3AAWG (twice), Google, Stanford University (Slides), and Cornell Tech.
PETS
2023
No Privacy Among Spies: Assessing the Functionality and Insecurity of Consumer Android Spyware Apps
Enze Liu, Sumanth Rao, Sam Havron, Grant Ho, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Damon McCoy
Proceedings of the 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS '23)
[Paper] [Slides]
Media Coverage: Featured on the front page of UC San Diego News and University of California News. CACM News, Hacker News, Tech Xplore, SCIENMAG, CTV News, German Prevention Congress News, KPBS
Invited Talks at: FTC Privacy Con 24.
ACM IMC
2021
Who's Got Your Mail? Characterizing Mail Service Provider Usage
Enze Liu, Gautam Akiwate, Mattijs Jonker, Ariana Mirian, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker
Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2021 (IMC '21)
[Paper] [Code] [Slides] [Talk]
ACM IMC
2021
Home is Where the Hijacking is: Understanding DNS Interception by Residential Routers
Audrey Randall, Enze Liu, Ramakrishna Padmanabhan, Gautam Akiwate, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage, Aaron Schulman
Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2021 (IMC '21)
[Paper]
ACM IMC
2020
Trufflehunter: Cache Sniffing Rare Domains at Large Public DNS Resolvers
Audrey Randall, Enze Liu, Gautam Akiwate, Ramakrishna Padmanabhan, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage, Aaron Schulman
Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2020 (IMC '20)
[Paper] [Code] IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize
IEEE S&P
2019
Reasoning Analytically About Password-Cracking Software
Enze Liu, Amanda Nakanishi, Maximilian Golla, David Cash, Blase Ur
Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P '19)
[Paper] [Code] [Slides] [Talk]

Preprints


arXiv
2024
An Empirical Analysis on the Use and Reporting of National Security Letters
Alex Bellon, Miro Haller, Andrey Labunets, Enze Liu, and Stefan Savage
[Paper] [Appeared at CSLAW '24 (presented by lead author Miro Haller)]