ACSAC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
We propose a taxonomy of botnet structures, based on their utility to the botmaster. We propose key metrics to measure their utility for various activities (e.g., spam, ddos). Usi...
ACSAC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Server virtualization more readily enables the collocation of disparate workloads on a shared physical platform. When employed on systems across a data center, the result can be a...
ACSAC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
The monitoring of virtual machines has many applications in areas such as security and systems management. A monitoring technique known as introspection has received significant ...
ACSAC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
The web is an indispensable part of our lives. Every day, millions of users purchase items, transfer money, retrieve information and communicate over the web. Although the web is ...
ACSAC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
We have implemented an information flow framework for the Java Virtual Machine that combines static and dynamic techniques to capture not only explicit flows, but also implicit ...
ACSAC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
The provenance of a piece of data is of utility to a wide range of applications. Its availability can be drastically increased by automatically collecting lineage information duri...
ACSAC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Jails, Sandboxes and other isolation mechanisms limit the damage from untrusted programs by reducing a process’s privileges to the minimum. Sandboxing is designed to thwart such...
ACSAC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
The increasing centralization of networked services places user data at considerable risk. For example, many users store email on remote servers rather than on their local disk. D...
ACSAC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
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 (...
ACSAC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Cooperative intrusion detection techniques for MANETs utilize ordinary computing hosts as network intrusion sensors. If compromised, these hosts may inject bogus data into the int...