Address space randomization is an emerging and promising method for stopping a broad range of memory corruption attacks. By randomly shifting critical memory regions at process in...
Chongkyung Kil, Jinsuk Jun, Christopher Bookholt, ...
Almost thirty years ago a vulnerability assessment of Multics identified significant vulnerabilities, despite the fact that Multics was more secure than other contemporary (and cu...
Main stream operating system kernels lack a strong and reliable mechanism for identifying the running processes and binding them to the corresponding executable applications. In t...
Hussain M. J. Almohri, Danfeng (Daphne) Yao, Denni...
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...
Virtual machine monitors (VMMs), including hypervisors, are a popular platform for implementing various security functionalities. However, traditional VMMs require numerous compon...