## Call for Papers: Workshop on Measurements, Attacks, and Defenses for the Web
(MADWeb) 2022

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.


## Important Dates

* Paper submission: January 10, 2022 Anywhere-on-earth (AOE)
* Acceptance notification: February 10, 2022
* Workshop date: March 3, 2022
(co-located with NDSS 2022: https://www.ndss-symposium.org)


## Areas of Interest

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

* Fingerprinting and tracking on the web
* Browser exploitation and defenses
* 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
* Unethical and illicit activity on the web
* Disinformation and deception threats
* DNS security and privacy
* 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://madweb22.hotcrp.com


## Workshop Format

MADWeb will be co-located with NDSS 2022 and will follow the same format as the
main conference.

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.


## Financial Support

MADWeb will provide limited financial support to a selected number of speakers
and attendees to pay workshop registration fees. Priority will be given to
authors of accepted papers, students working in relevant areas of research and
coming from under-represented institutions, attendees who have clear financial
need, attendees from diverse backgrounds and from under-represented minority
communities.

Please add any relevant information under "Request financial support for
attending the workshop?" to your submission in HotCRP, or contact the PC chairs
if you have any questions or special requests.


## Program Committee Co-Chairs

* Roberto Perdisci, University of Georgia
* Zubair Shafiq, University of California, Davis


## Program Committee

* Adam Doupé, _Arizona State University_
* Adam Oest, _PayPal, Inc._
* Amin Kharraz, _Florida International University_
* Anastasia Shuba, _Independent Researcher_
* Baris Coskun, _Amazon, AWS_
* Billy Melicher, _Palo Alto Networks_
* Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, _CISPA – Helmholtz Center for Information Security_
* Gianluca Stringhini, _Boston University_
* Gunes Acar, _Radboud University_
* Imane Fouad, _Université de Lille_
* Iskander Sanchez-Rola, _Norton Research Group_
* Jason Polakis, _University of Illinois at Chicago_
* Kapil Singh, _IBM T.J. Watson Research Center_
* Konrad Rieck, _TU Braunschweig_
* Kyu Hyung Lee, _University of Georgia_
* Leyla Bilge, _Norton LifeLock Research Group_
* Luca Invernizzi, _Google_
* Marc Juarez, _USC_
* Peter Snyder, _Brave Software_
* Phani Vadrevu, _University of New Orleans_
* Pierre Laperdrix, _CNRS_
* Rahmadi Trimananda,_University of California, Irvine_
* Sajjad Arshad, _Google_
* Stefano Calzavara, _Università Ca' Foscari Venezia_
* Steven Englehardt, _DuckDuckGo_
* Umar Iqbal, _University of Washington_
* Victor Le Pochat, _imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven_
* Weihang Wang, _University at Buffalo_
* Yinzhi Cao, _Johns Hopkins University_
* Yonghwi Kwon, _University of Virginia_


## Steering Committee

* Alexandros Kapravelos, North Carolina State University
* Nick Nikiforakis, Stony Brook University
* Oleksii Starov, Palo Alto Networks


## Sponsors

MADWeb 2022 is partially supported by Palo Alto
Networks https://www.paloaltonetworks.com.