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DIMVA
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Reverse Social Engineering Attacks in Online Social Networks
Social networks are some of the largest and fastest growing online services today. Facebook, for example, has been ranked as the second most visited site on the Internet, and has b...
Danesh Irani, Marco Balduzzi, Davide Balzarotti, E...
DIMVA
2011
12 years 11 months ago
An Assessment of Overt Malicious Activity Manifest in Residential Networks
While conventional wisdom holds that residential users experience a high degree of compromise and infection, this presumption has seen little validation in the way of an in-depth s...
Gregor Maier, Anja Feldmann, Vern Paxson, Robin So...
DIMVA
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Timing Attacks on PIN Input in VoIP Networks (Short Paper)
To access automated voice services, Voice over IP (VoIP) users sometimes are required to provide their Personal Identification Numbers (PIN) for authentication. Therefore when the...
Ge Zhang, Simone Fischer-Hübner
DIMVA
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Code Pointer Masking: Hardening Applications against Code Injection Attacks
In this paper we present an efficient countermeasure against code injection attacks. Our countermeasure does not rely on secret values such as stack canaries and protects against a...
Pieter Philippaerts, Yves Younan, Stijn Muylle, Fr...
DIMVA
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Escape from Monkey Island: Evading High-Interaction Honeyclients
Abstract. High-interaction honeyclients are the tools of choice to detect malicious web pages that launch drive-by-download attacks. Unfortunately, the approach used by these tools...
Alexandros Kapravelos, Marco Cova, Christopher Kru...
DIMVA
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Operating System Interface Obfuscation and the Revealing of Hidden Operations
Many software security solutions—including malware analyzers, information flow tracking systems, auditing utilities, and host-based intrusion detectors—rely on knowledge of s...
Abhinav Srivastava, Andrea Lanzi, Jonathon T. Giff...
DIMVA
2011
12 years 11 months ago
What's Clicking What? Techniques and Innovations of Today's Clickbots
Abstract. With the widespread adoption of Internet advertising, fraud has become a systemic problem. While the existence of clickbots—malware specialized for conducting click-fra...
Brad Miller, Paul Pearce, Chris Grier, Christian K...
AINA
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Non-invasive Browser Based User Modeling Towards Semantically Enhanced Personlization of the Open Web
—Currently the user’s web search is disjoint from the resources which is subsequently browsed. Specifically the related instances of the search are not displayed on the followi...
Kevin Koidl, Owen Conlan, Lai Wei, Ann Marie Saxto...
AINA
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Auctions for Secure Multi-party Policy Negotiation in Ambient Intelligence
—The advent of distributed and ad-hoc-connected systems such as in Ambient Intelligence applications confronts developers with the question on how to specify QoS- and security po...
Julian Schütte, Stephan Heuser
AINA
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Identity Support in a Security and Trust Service for Ad Hoc M-commerce Trading Systems
– Ad hoc m-commerce is an emerging way of conducting online trading wirelessly within dynamic network communities. However, participants in such systems are vulnerable to attacks...
Husna Osman, Hamish Taylor