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Seaver Thorn

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Bio

Seaver is a PhD student advised by Dr. William Enck in the Department of Computer Science at NCSU. Seaver joined the WSPR lab in 2020. His current focus is in 5G Cellular Network Security, but has other research interests in OS and network security. He received his M.S in Computer Science from NC State in 2020 and his B.S in Computer Science from East Carolina University in 2018.

Publications

  • Seaver Thorn, Nathaniel Bennett, Kevin Butler, Patrick Traynor, and William Enck, ASN1spect: Uncovering ASN.1 Compiler-Generated Vulnerabilities in Critical Infrastructure, in Proceedings of the ACM Secure Development Conference (SecDev), Jul. 2026.
  • K. Virgil English, Nathaniel Bennett, Seaver Thorn, Kevin Butler, William Enck, and Patrick Traynor, Examining Cryptography and Randomness Failures in Open-Source Cellular Cores, in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), Jun. 2024.
  • Seaver Thorn, K. Virgil English, Kevin Butler, and William Enck, 5GAC-Analyzer: Identifying Over-Privilege Between 5G Core Network Functions, in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), May 2024.
  • Trevor Dunlap, Seaver Thorn, William Enck, and Bradley Reaves, Finding Fixed Vulnerabilities with Off-the-Shelf Static Analysis, in Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), Jul. 2023.
  • Samin Yaseer Mahmud, K. Virgil English, Seaver Thorn, William Enck, Adam Oest, and Muhammad Saad, Analysis of Payment Service Provider SDKs in Android, in Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Dec. 2022.
  • Sigmund Albert Gorski III, Seaver Thorn, William Enck, and Haining Chen, FReD: Identifying File Re-Delegation in Android System Services, in Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Aug. 2022.
  • Nasif Imtiaz, Seaver Thorn, and Laurie A. Williams, A comparative study of vulnerability reporting by software composition analysis tools, in Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), Oct. 2021.