Dr. Brian Robert Callahan
academic, developer, with an eye towards a brighter techno-social life
Here you will find preprints and papers from our research center.
B. R. Callahan and M. Q. Shaikh, "Is cleaning costly? evaluating the -fret-clean anti-return-oriented programming mitigation from the OpenBSD operating system," in Proc. 6th IEEE Cyber Awareness Res. Symp. (CARS), Grand Forks, ND, USA, Oct. 2026, preprint, DOI to come.
B. Wroblewski, S. Ramirez Velandia, O. Franczykowski, M. Q. Shaikh, J. Esposito, and B. R. Callahan, "Write your way to better cybersecurity awareness training with active word games," in Proc. 6th IEEE Cyber Awareness Res. Symp. (CARS), Grand Forks, ND, USA, Oct. 2026, preprint, DOI to come.
B. R. Callahan, J. Esposito, A Arif, and R. Cortinas, "A final return for OpenBSD anti-return-oriented programming mitigations," in Proc. 21st Annu. Symp. Inf. Assurance (ASIA '26), Albany, NY, USA, 2026, pp. 98-110, doi: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6869668.
J. Esposito, A. Arif, R. Cortinas, and B. R. Callahan, "Porting and evaluating return-oriented programming defenses implemented by the OpenBSD operating system," in Proc. 14th Int. Symp. Digit. Forensics Secur. (ISDFS), Boston, MA, USA, 2026, pp. 1-7, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISDFS69419.2026.11458911.
M. Ivanicki and B. R. Callahan, "An explainable AI study of phishing detection model degradation across real-world events", in Proc. 14th Int. Symp. Digit. Forensics Secur. (ISDFS), Boston, MA, USA, 2026, pp. 1-5, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISDFS69419.2026.11459104.