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CCS
2008
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
BootJacker: compromising computers using forced restarts
BootJacker is a proof-of-concept attack tool which demonstrates that authentication mechanisms employed by an operating system can be bypassed by obtaining physical access and sim...
Ellick Chan, Jeffrey C. Carlyle, Francis M. David,...
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CCS
2008
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Code injection attacks on harvard-architecture devices
Harvard architecture CPU design is common in the embedded world. Examples of Harvard-based architecture devices are the Mica family of wireless sensors. Mica motes have limited me...
Aurélien Francillon, Claude Castelluccia
CCS
2008
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Rootkit-resistant disks
Rootkits are now prevalent in the wild. Users affected by rootkits are subject to the abuse of their data and resources, often unknowingly. Such malware becomes even more dangerou...
Kevin R. B. Butler, Stephen E. McLaughlin, Patrick...
CCS
2008
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Efficient security primitives derived from a secure aggregation algorithm
By functionally decomposing a specific algorithm (the hierarchical secure aggregation algorithm of Chan et al. [3] and Frikken et al. [7]), we uncover a useful general functionali...
Haowen Chan, Adrian Perrig
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CCS
2008
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Information leaks in structured peer-to-peer anonymous communication systems
We analyze information leaks in the lookup mechanisms of structured peer-to-peer anonymous communication systems and how these leaks can be used to compromise anonymity. We show t...
Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov