Kernel rootkits that modify operating system state to avoid detection are a dangerous threat to system security. This paper presents OSck, a system that discovers kernel rootkits ...
Owen S. Hofmann, Alan M. Dunn, Sangman Kim, Indraj...
A modular program analysis considers components independently and provides succinct summaries for each component, which can be used when checking the rest of the system. Consider ...
Automatic tools for finding software errors require a set of specifications before they can check code: if they do not know what to check, they cannot find bugs. This paper presen...
Ted Kremenek, Paul Twohey, Godmar Back, Andrew Y. ...
Many sensor nodes contain resource constrained microcontrollers where user level applications, operating system components, and device drivers share a single address space with no...
Aspect oriented programming (AOP), when used well, has many advantages. Aspects are however, programming-time constructs, i.e., they relate to source code. Previously, we develope...
John A. Stankovic, Prashant Nagaraddi, Zhendong Yu...