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SP
2008
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Cloaker: Hardware Supported Rootkit Concealment
Rootkits are used by malicious attackers who desire to run software on a compromised machine without being detected. They have become stealthier over the years as a consequence of...
Francis M. David, Ellick Chan, Jeffrey C. Carlyle,...
SP
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Lurking in the Shadows: Identifying Systemic Threats to Kernel Data
The integrity of kernel code and data is fundamental to the integrity of the computer system. Tampering with the kernel data is an attractive venue for rootkit writers since malic...
Arati Baliga, Pandurang Kamat, Liviu Iftode
ACSAC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Known/Chosen Key Attacks against Software Instruction Set Randomization
Instruction Set Randomization (ISR) has been proposed as a form of defense against binary code injection into an executing program. One proof-of-concept implementation is Randomiz...
Yoav Weiss, Elena Gabriela Barrantes
DSN
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Modeling and Automated Containment of Worms
Self-propagating codes, called worms, such as Code Red, Nimda, and Slammer, have drawn significant attention due to their enormous adverse impact on the Internet. There is a grea...
Sarah H. Sellke, Ness B. Shroff, Saurabh Bagchi
SP
2003
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
Using Memory Errors to Attack a Virtual Machine
We present an experimental study showing that soft memory errors can lead to serious security vulnerabilities in Java and .NET virtual machines, or in any system that relies on ty...
Sudhakar Govindavajhala, Andrew W. Appel