News

An interface blade in one of our network switches is showing a problem and has been disabled. Experimental connections for i4 class nodes were migrated to another blade, and the 3rd experimental interfaces of the i5 nodes have been disabled. A new blade is en-route, but no ETR has been established.

There will be a power outage affecting the Schooner testbed on July 11, 2009 at 6:00AM. During the outage, electricians will be examining then high voltage distribution lines that feed our lab. While the outage is only scheduled to last a few minutes, we will be commencing an orderly shutdown starting at 6AM, and won't start repowering systems till the work is completed.

UPDATE: Power outage has been cancelled, electricians were able to identify the components without shutting down.

We invite you to submit papers to the Workshop on Cyber Security
Experimentation and Test (CSET'09) on August 10, 2009 in Montreal,
Canada. The CSET'09 workshop is co-located with the USENIX Security
Symposium.

CSET '09 is bringing together researchers and testbed developers to
share their experiences and define a forward-looking agenda for the
development of scientific, realistic evaluation approaches for security
threats and defenses; it provides an important community forum for the
exploration of transformational advances in the field of cyber security
experimentation and test.  

While we particularly invite papers that deal with security
experimentation, we are also interested in papers that address general
testbed/ experiment issues that have implications on security
experimentation such as: traffic and topology generation, large-scale
experiment support, experiment automation, etc. We are further
interested in educational efforts that involve security experimentation.
Please see workshop URL for a more detailed listing of topics.

Financial assistance is expected to be available for promising students
to help defray costs of attending this workshop, present their papers,
and become more integrated into this important scientific community. We
believe that attendance to present papers and to interact with
researchers and practitioners in Cyber Security Experimentation and Test
is an important component of students' education and professional
development. Moreover, students' presence at this workshop will enrich
and broaden the range of workshop activities. Procedures for applying
for a student travel grant are forthcoming.


Workshop URL: http://www.usenix.org/event/cset09/

Important Dates

    * Submissions due: May 15, 2009, 11:59 p.m. PDT
    * Notification to authors: June 30, 2009
    * Electronic files due: July 15, 2009


Workshop Organizers

General Chair
Terry V. Benzel, USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI)

Program Co-Chairs
Jelena Mirkovic, USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI)

Angelos Stavrou, George Mason University

Program Committee
1) Paul Barford, University of Wisconsin
2) Andy Bavier, Princeton University
3) Matt Bishop, University of California, Davis
4) Thomas Daniels, Iowa State University
5) Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University
6) Carrie Gates, Computer Associates
7) Alefiya Hussain, SPARTA Inc.
8) Brent Kang, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9) Vern Paxson, ICSI
10) Sean Peisert, University of California, Davis
11) Peter Reiher, University of California, Los Angeles
12) Rob Ricci, University of Utah
13) Mark Stamp, San Jose State University
14) Kashi Vishwanath, Microsoft Research
15) Vinod Yegneswaran, SRI International


We hope to see you in Montreal!

CSET'09 Organizers
Terry Benzel (tbenzel at isi.edu)

Angelos Stavrou (astavrou at gmu.edu)

Jelena Mirkovic (sunshine at isi.edu)

A Fedora Core 8 image has been installed, use 'FC8-STD' as your OSID. Testing is ongoing...

Bug discovered with disk controller driver, image updated

FBSD62-STD, FC6-STD, and the combined image were updated, watch for problems.

We will be upgrading the Emulab 5.X for the next few days, an exact window is not known.

1. OS Updates -- COMPLETE
2. Emulab Core Upgrade -- COMPLETE
3. Core software Testing -- COMPLETE
4. Router Configuration - ENABLED, under testing
5. PROTOGeni - COMPLETED

Boot problems with FBSD62 images on the i5 hardware has been resolved. On motherboard management features (IPMI) which share the first network controller were hijacking UDP port 623 which with a high probability was being chosen to communicate the SRC port for UDP calls on a testbed node.

Many of the ports (optional software packages) were updated on ops.schooner.wail.wisc.edu. Watch for problems.

The software component that manages the configuration of Schooner routers has been migrated to a different machine. Reports any problems to testbed-ops@schooner.wail.wisc.edu

Due to a number of successful remote SSH attacks in the past few weeks, we have blocked SSH access directly to Schooner testbed nodes. To remotely access nodes, SSH to ops.schooner.wail.wisc.edu and SSH to your testbed node from there.

New images have been released, including FBSD410, FBSD54, FBSD62 RHL9.0 FC4, FC6 Testing is ongoing. If you have custom images update them if possible.

Certificates for the Schooner webserver and within the testbed have been updated. Since the CA certificate was changed, you may have to regenerate any encrypted SSL certs used to access the XML-RPC server remotely, non encrypted per user SSL certs were automatically regenerated.

The Schooner system has been upgraded to a more recent version of the Emulab software. Contact mblodget@cs.wisc.edu if you find any oddities.