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ACSAC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
YAGP: Yet Another Graphical Password Strategy
Alphanumeric passwords are widely used in computer and network authentication to protect users' privacy. However, it is well known that long, textbased passwords are hard for...
Haichang Gao, Xuewu Guo, Xiaoping Chen, Liming Wan...
ACSAC
2008
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
Preventing Information Leaks through Shadow Executions
A concern about personal information confidentiality typically arises when any desktop application communicates to the external network, for example, to its producer's server...
Roberto Capizzi, Antonio Longo, V. N. Venkatakrish...
ACSAC
2008
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
Assessing Quality of Policy Properties in Verification of Access Control Policies
Access control policies are often specified in declarative languages. In this paper, we propose a novel approach, called mutation verification, to assess the quality of properties...
Evan Martin, JeeHyun Hwang, Tao Xie, Vincent C. Hu
ACSAC
2008
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
Practical Applications of Bloom Filters to the NIST RDS and Hard Drive Triage
Much effort has been expended in recent years to create large sets of hash codes from known files. Distributing these sets has become more difficult as these sets grow larger. Mea...
Paul F. Farrell Jr., Simson L. Garfinkel, Douglas ...
ACSAC
2008
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
Behavior-Profile Clustering for False Alert Reduction in Anomaly Detection Sensors
Anomaly Detection (AD) sensors compute behavior profiles to recognize malicious or anomalous activities. The behavior of a host is checked continuously by the AD sensor and an ale...
Vanessa Frías-Martínez, Salvatore J....
ACSAC
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
The Evolution of System-Call Monitoring
Computer security systems protect computers and networks from unauthorized use by external agents and insiders. The similarities between computer security and the problem of prote...
Stephanie Forrest, Steven A. Hofmeyr, Anil Somayaj...
ACSAC
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Automatic Inference and Enforcement of Kernel Data Structure Invariants
Kernel-level rootkits affect system security by modifying key kernel data structures to achieve a variety of malicious goals. While early rootkits modified control data structur...
Arati Baliga, Vinod Ganapathy, Liviu Iftode
ACSAC
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
The Role Hierarchy Mining Problem: Discovery of Optimal Role Hierarchies
Role hierarchies are fundamental to the role based access control (RBAC) model. The notion of role hierarchy is a well understood concept that allows senior roles to inherit the p...
Qi Guo, Jaideep Vaidya, Vijayalakshmi Atluri
ACSAC
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Improving Security Visualization with Exposure Map Filtering
Flow based analysis of network traffic is commonly used to analyze and understand security-related events. Graphical analysis helps analysts detect patterns or behaviors that woul...
Mansour Alsaleh, David Barrera, Paul C. van Oorsch...