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ASPLOS
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Ensuring operating system kernel integrity with OSck
Kernel rootkits that modify operating system state to avoid detection are a dangerous threat to system security. This paper presents OSck, a system that discovers kernel rootkits ...
Owen S. Hofmann, Alan M. Dunn, Sangman Kim, Indraj...
AINA
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Kernel and Application Integrity Assurance: Ensuring Freedom from Rootkits and Malware in a Computer System
Malware and rootkits are serious security vulnerabilities, and they can be designed to be resistant to anti-viral software, or even totally undetectable. This paper described a hi...
Lifu Wang, Partha Dasgupta
SOSP
2007
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
SecVisor: a tiny hypervisor to provide lifetime kernel code integrity for commodity OSes
We propose SecVisor, a tiny hypervisor that ensures code integrity for commodity OS kernels. In particular, SecVisor ensures that only approved code can execute in kernel mode ove...
Arvind Seshadri, Mark Luk, Ning Qu, Adrian Perrig
STORAGESS
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Ensuring data integrity in storage: techniques and applications
Data integrity is a fundamental aspect of storage security and reliability. With the advent of network storage and new technology trends that result in new failure modes for stora...
Gopalan Sivathanu, Charles P. Wright, Erez Zadok
HOTOS
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Cosy: Develop in User-Land, Run in Kernel-Mode
User applications that move a lot of data across the user-kernel boundary suffer from a serious performance penalty. We provide a framework, Compound System Calls (CoSy), to enhan...
Amit Purohit, Charles P. Wright, Joseph Spadavecch...