Intrusion detection systems are fundamentally passive and fail–open. Because their primary task is classification, they do nothing to prevent an attack from succeeding. An intru...
Michael E. Locasto, Ke Wang, Angelos D. Keromytis,...
We describe Instruction-Set Randomization (ISR), a general approach for safeguarding systems against any type of code-injection attack. We apply Kerckhoffs' principle to creat...
Stephen W. Boyd, Gaurav S. Kc, Michael E. Locasto,...
One of the most common forms of security attacks involves exploiting a vulnerability to inject malicious code into an executing application and then cause the injected code to be ...
Wei Hu, Jason Hiser, Daniel Williams, Adrian Filip...
Over the past several years, US-CERT advisories, as well as most critical updates from software vendors, have been due to memory corruption vulnerabilities such as buffer overflo...