UserFS provides egalitarian OS protection mechanisms in Linux. UserFS allows any user--not just the system administrator--to allocate Unix user IDs, to use chroot, and to set up f...
Kernel-level attacks or rootkits can compromise the security of an operating system by executing with the privilege of the kernel. Current approaches use virtualization to gain hi...
Monirul I. Sharif, Wenke Lee, Weidong Cui, Andrea ...
JavaScript has become a central technology of the web, but it is also the source of many security problems, including cross-site scripting attacks and malicious advertising code. ...
Recent operating systems [12, 21, 26] have shown that decentralized information flow control (DIFC) can secure applications built from mostly untrusted code. This paper extends DI...
Nickolai Zeldovich, Silas Boyd-Wickizer, David Maz...
Authentication is increasingly relevant to data management. Data is being outsourced to untrusted servers and clients want to securely update and query their data. For example, in ...