Malware defenses have primarily relied upon intrusion fingerprints to detect suspicious network behavior. While effective for discovering computers that are already compromised,...
An important yet largely uncharted problem in malware defense is how to automate generation of infection signatures for detecting compromised systems, i.e., signatures that charac...
Zhuowei Li, XiaoFeng Wang, Zhenkai Liang, Michael ...
We exploit for defensive purposes the concept of darkports – the unused ports on active systems. We are particularly interested in such ports which transition to become active (...
David Whyte, Paul C. van Oorschot, Evangelos Krana...
—As mobile phones increasingly become the target of propagating malware, their use of direct pair-wise communication mechanisms, such as Bluetooth and WiFi, pose considerable cha...
Gjergji Zyba, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Michael Liljens...
Software installation provides an attractive entry vector for malware: since installations are performed with administrator privileges, malware can easily get the enhanced level of...
Weiqing Sun, R. Sekar, Zhenkai Liang, V. N. Venkat...