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CCS
2005
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Fast and automated generation of attack signatures: a basis for building self-protecting servers
Large-scale attacks, such as those launched by worms and zombie farms, pose a serious threat to our network-centric society. Existing approaches such as software patches are simpl...
Zhenkai Liang, R. Sekar
WWW
2005
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Hardening Web browsers against man-in-the-middle and eavesdropping attacks
Existing Web browsers handle security errors in a manner that often confuses users. In particular, when a user visits a secure site whose certificate the browser cannot verify, th...
José Carlos Brustoloni, Xia Brustoloni
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Attacks on public WLAN-based positioning systems
In this work, we study the security of public WLAN-based positioning systems. Specifically, we investigate the Skyhook positioning system, available on PCs and used on a number of...
Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Chri...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Hierarchical Backoff Locks for Nonuniform Communication Architectures
This paper identifies node affinity as an important property for scalable general-purpose locks. Nonuniform communication architectures (NUCAs), for example CCNUMAs built from a f...
Zoran Radovic, Erik Hagersten
ESOP
2010
Springer
16 years 3 months ago
Faulty Logic: Reasoning about Fault Tolerant Programs
Transient faults are single-shot hardware errors caused by high energy particles from space, manufacturing defects, overheating, and other sources. Such faults can be devastating f...
Matthew L. Meola and David Walker