Timeout mechanisms are a useful feature for web applications. However, these mechanisms need to be used with care because, if used as-is, they are vulnerable to timing attacks. Th...
The sophistication of computer malware is becoming a serious threat to the information technology infrastructure, which is the backbone of modern e-commerce systems. We, therefore...
Modern enterprise systems support Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). Although RBAC allows restricting access to privileged operations, a deployer may actually intend to restrict ac...
Paolina Centonze, Gleb Naumovich, Stephen J. Fink,...
Current trends demonstrate an increasing use of polymorphism by attackers to disguise their exploits. The ability for malicious code to be easily, and automatically, transformed in...
Yingbo Song, Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, ...
In most modern operating systems, a process is a -protected abstraction for isolating code and data. This protection, however, is selective. Many common mechanisms—dynamic code ...