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SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Protecting C programs from attacks via invalid pointer dereferences
Writes via unchecked pointer dereferences rank high among vulnerabilities most often exploited by malicious code. The most common attacks use an unchecked string copy to cause a b...
Suan Hsi Yong, Susan Horwitz
MSWIM
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
On providing location privacy for mobile sinks in wireless sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks have attracted increasing attentions considering their potentials for being widely adopted in both emerging civil and military applications. A common prac...
Edith C.-H. Ngai, Ioana Rodhe
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Computing optimal randomized resource allocations for massive security games
Predictable allocations of security resources such as police officers, canine units, or checkpoints are vulnerable to exploitation by attackers. Recent work has applied game-theo...
Christopher Kiekintveld, Manish Jain, Jason Tsai, ...
CCS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Dynamic pharming attacks and locked same-origin policies for web browsers
We describe a new attack against web authentication, which we call dynamic pharming. Dynamic pharming works by hijacking DNS and sending the victim’s browser malicious Javascrip...
Chris Karlof, Umesh Shankar, J. Doug Tygar, David ...
SENSYS
2004
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
TinySec: a link layer security architecture for wireless sensor networks
We introduce TinySec, the first fully-implemented link layer security architecture for wireless sensor networks. In our design, we leverage recent lessons learned from design vul...
Chris Karlof, Naveen Sastry, David Wagner