Kevin R. B. Butler

Co-authored papers

2018

• Characterizing the Security of the SMS Ecosystem with Public Gateways

  ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security

  Bradley Reaves, Luis Vargas, Nolen Scaife, Dave Tian, Logan Blue, Patrick Traynor, and Kevin R. B. Butler

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  A 28-month study of 900,000 public SMS gateway messages shows persistent insecure practices and widespread phone-verified account fraud evasion.

2016

• Detecting SMS spam in the age of legitimate bulk messaging

  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

  Bradley Reaves, Logan Blue, Dave Tian, Patrick Traynor, and Kevin R. B. Butler

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  Shows legitimate bulk messages like verification codes collapse SMS spam filter recall to 23%, and releases the largest public SMS spam dataset to date.