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ISW
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
On the Concept of Software Obfuscation in Computer Security
Abstract. Program obfuscation is a semantic-preserving transformation aimed at bringing a program into such a form, which impedes the understanding of its algorithm and data struct...
Nikolay Kuzurin, Alexander Shokurov, Nikolay P. Va...
WETICE
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Application of Lightweight Formal Methods to Software Security
Formal specification and verification of security has proven a challenging task. There is no single method that has proven feasible. Instead, an integrated approach which combines...
David P. Gilliam, John D. Powell, Matt Bishop
ICSM
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Characterizing the 'Security Vulnerability Likelihood' of Software Functions
Software maintainers and auditors would benefit from a tool to help them focus their attention on functions that are likely to be the source of security vulnerabilities. However,...
Dan DaCosta, Christopher Dahn, Spiros Mancoridis, ...
DIMVA
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Expanding Malware Defense by Securing Software Installations
Software installation provides an attractive entry vector for malware: since installations are performed with administrator privileges, malware can easily get the enhanced level of...
Weiqing Sun, R. Sekar, Zhenkai Liang, V. N. Venkat...
COMPSAC
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Contextual Guidance Approach to Software Security
With the ongoing trend towards the globalization of software systems and their development, components in these systems might not only work together, but may end up evolving indep...
Philipp Schügerl, David Walsh, Juergen Rillin...