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ACSAC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
From Languages to Systems: Understanding Practical Application Development in Security-typed Languages
Security-typed languages are an evolving tool for implementing systems with provable security guarantees. However, to date, these tools have only been used to build simple “toy...
Boniface Hicks, Kiyan Ahmadizadeh, Patrick Drew Mc...
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ACSAC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A General Dynamic Information Flow Tracking Framework for Security Applications
Many software security solutions require accurate tracking of control/data dependencies among information objects in network applications. This paper presents a general dynamic in...
Lap-Chung Lam, Tzi-cker Chiueh
ACSAC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Extended Protection against Stack Smashing Attacks without Performance Loss
In this paper we present an efficient countermeasure against stack smashing attacks. Our countermeasure does not rely on secret values (such as canaries) and protects against att...
Yves Younan, Davide Pozza, Frank Piessens, Wouter ...
ACSAC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
PolyUnpack: Automating the Hidden-Code Extraction of Unpack-Executing Malware
Modern malware often hide the malicious portion of their program code by making it appear as data at compiletime and transforming it back into executable code at runtime. This obf...
Paul Royal, Mitch Halpin, David Dagon, Robert Edmo...
ACSAC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Framework for a Collaborative DDoS Defense
Increasing use of the Internet for critical services makes flooding distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) a top security threat. A distributed nature of DDoS suggests that a distr...
George C. Oikonomou, Jelena Mirkovic, Peter L. Rei...
ACSAC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Protecting Privacy in Key-Value Search Systems
This paper investigates the general problem of performing key-value search at untrusted servers without loss of user privacy. Specifically, given key-value pairs from multiple ow...
Yinglian Xie, Michael K. Reiter, David R. O'Hallar...
ACSAC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Using Attribute-Based Access Control to Enable Attribute-Based Messaging
Attribute Based Messaging (ABM) enables message senders to dynamically create a list of recipients based on their attributes as inferred from an enterprise database. Such targeted...
Rakeshbabu Bobba, Omid Fatemieh, Fariba Khan, Carl...
ACSAC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Towards Database Firewall: Mining the Damage Spreading Patterns
Access control and integrity constraints are well known approaches to ensure data integrity in commercial database systems. However, due to operational mistakes, malicious intent ...
Kun Bai, Peng Liu
ACSAC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Foreign Code Detection on the Windows/X86 Platform
As new attacks against Windows-based machines emerge almost on a daily basis, there is an increasing need to “lock down” individual users’ desktop machines in corporate comp...
Susanta Nanda, Wei Li, Lap-Chung Lam, Tzi-cker Chi...
ACSAC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Study of Access Control Requirements for Healthcare Systems Based on Audit Trails from Access Logs
In healthcare, role-based access control systems are often extended with exception mechanisms to ensure access to needed informationeven when the needs don’t followthe expected ...
Lillian Røstad, Ole Edsberg