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2008
14 years 2 months ago
Securing Frame Communication in Browsers
Many web sites embed third-party content in frames, relying on the browser's security policy to protect them from malicious content. Frames, however, are often insufficient i...
Adam Barth, Collin Jackson, John C. Mitchell
USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
You Go to Elections with the Voting System You Have: Stop-Gap Mitigations for Deployed Voting Systems
In light of the systemic vulnerabilities uncovered by recent reviews of deployed e-voting systems, the surest way to secure the voting process would be to scrap the existing syste...
J. Alex Halderman, Eric Rescorla, Hovav Shacham, D...
USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Proactive Surge Protection: A Defense Mechanism for Bandwidth-Based Attacks
Large-scale bandwidth-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can quickly knock out substantial parts of a network before reactive defenses can respond. Even traffic flo...
Jerry Chi-Yuan Chou, Bill Lin, Subhabrata Sen, Oli...
USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Modeling the Trust Boundaries Created by Securable Objects
One of the most critical steps of any security review involves identifying the trust boundaries that an application is exposed to. While methodologies such as threat modeling can ...
Matt Miller
USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Towards Systematic Evaluation of the Evadability of Bot/Botnet Detection Methods
Automated bot/botnet detection is a difficult problem given the high level of attacker power. We propose a systematic approach for evaluating the evadability of detection methods....
Elizabeth Stinson, John C. Mitchell
USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
There Is No Free Phish: An Analysis of "Free" and Live Phishing Kits
Phishing is a form of identity theft in which an attacker attempts to elicit confidential information from unsuspecting victims. While in the past there has been significant work ...
Marco Cova, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna
USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Engineering Heap Overflow Exploits with JavaScript
This paper presents a new technique for exploiting heap overflows in JavaScript interpreters. Briefly, given a heap overflow, JavaScript commands can be used to insure that a func...
Mark Daniel, Jake Honoroff, Charlie Miller
USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Experiences with Model Inference Assisted Fuzzing
In this paper we introduce the idea of model inference assisted fuzzing aimed to cost effectively improve software security. We experimented with several model inference technique...
Joachim Viide, Aki Helin, Marko Laakso, Pekka Piet...
USS
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Automatic Generation of XSS and SQL Injection Attacks with Goal-Directed Model Checking
Cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection errors are two prominent examples of taint-based vulnerabilities that have been responsible for a large number of security breaches in...
Michael C. Martin, Monica S. Lam