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ACSAC
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Protecting Commodity Operating System Kernels from Vulnerable Device Drivers
Device drivers on commodity operating systems execute with kernel privilege and have unfettered access to kernel data structures. Several recent attacks demonstrate that such poor...
Shakeel Butt, Vinod Ganapathy, Michael M. Swift, C...
ACSAC
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Protecting Kernel Code and Data with a Virtualization-Aware Collaborative Operating System
Abstract—The traditional virtual machine usage model advocates placing security mechanisms in a trusted VM layer and letting the untrusted guest OS run unaware of the presence of...
Daniela Alvim Seabra de Oliveira, Shyhtsun Felix W...
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Reducing TCB complexity for security-sensitive applications: three case studies
The large size and high complexity of securitysensitive applications and systems software is a primary cause for their poor testability and high vulnerability. One approach to all...
Lenin Singaravelu, Calton Pu, Hermann Härtig,...
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...
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Manageable fine-grained information flow
The continuing frequency and seriousness of security incidents underlines the importance of application security. Decentralized information flow control (DIFC), a promising tool ...
Petros Efstathopoulos, Eddie Kohler