Carter Yagemann

Carter Yagemann

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University with interests in automated vulnerability discovery, root cause analysis, exploit prevention, and cyber-physical security.

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H&R Block App Analytics for 2020

Two years ago I started a series about using the analytics publicly released by the USA government to gleam some information about H&R Block's mobile apps. I'm a few months late this year, but it's time to update the numbers for the 2020 tax year. The 2019 numbers are …

H&R Block App Analytics for 2019

Last year I wrote a blog post about using the analytics publicly released by the USA government to gleam some information about H&R Block's mobile apps. If you haven't read it, I recommend doing so because in this post I'm going to give an update for the 2019 tax …

H&R Block "MyBlock" App + USA Government Website Analytics = PROFIT

I like data mining. For better or worse, it's the gold of the digital age. So when the USA government decided to make the analytical data for their publicly facing websites available for download, I jumped at the opportunity. Thanks to this lovely data source, I can get insights into …

Intel PT Data at Rest: A Compression Experiment

Full Disclosure: I am a researcher in Georgia Tech's ISTC-ARSA, which is funded by Intel. Although I reference two publications that share Xinyang Ge and Weidong Cui as authors, I am neither associated with them nor Microsoft Research at the time of writing. Intel Processor Trace (PT) is a powerful …

You never know where your code will end up.

I was searching through an archive site for 4Chan when I noticed that my name was in a random post on the Technology board, /g/: Anonymous Sat Jun 17 11:13:54 2017 No.60943336 >>60943289 I'm running it locally, but you can get it here: https://github.com …

Site Redesign

HTML5Up When I originally registered the domain carteryagemann.com I imagined it would be a single static page summarizing my professional career; an eye catch for recruiters and peers searching my name on the internet. I wanted a place for bragging that I would have complete control over and not …