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CCS
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Automatic diagnosis and response to memory corruption vulnerabilities
Cyber attacks against networked computers have become relentless in recent years. The most common attack method is to exploit memory corruption vulnerabilities such as buffer ove...
Jun Xu, Peng Ning, Chongkyung Kil, Yan Zhai, Chris...
CASES
2005
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Hardware support for code integrity in embedded processors
Computer security becomes increasingly important with continual growth of the number of interconnected computing platforms. Moreover, as capabilities of embedded processors increa...
Milena Milenkovic, Aleksandar Milenkovic, Emil Jov...
SP
2008
IEEE
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14 years 1 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,...
CSREASAM
2009
13 years 8 months ago
A Stochastic Model of the Damage Propagation in Database Systems
Security defense tools like firewalls and antivirus softwares are not sufficient to defend against dynamic threats to database systems. Successful attacks could not only seriously ...
Hai Wang, Su Yan
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
The tale of the weather worm
How humans behave when faced with a disaster, natural or man-made, can be exploited automatically by news-aware malicious software. We introduce weather worms, worms that can auto...
Joe Szabo, John Aycock, Randal Acton, Jörg De...