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HOTOS
2007
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
End-to-End Web Application Security
Web applications are important, ubiquitous distributed systems whose current security relies primarily on server-side mechanisms. This paper makes the end-toend argument that the ...
Úlfar Erlingsson, V. Benjamin Livshits, Yin...
CCS
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Countering kernel rootkits with lightweight hook protection
Kernel rootkits have posed serious security threats due to their stealthy manner. To hide their presence and activities, many rootkits hijack control flows by modifying control d...
Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, Weidong Cui, Peng Ning
VEE
2006
ACM
115views Virtualization» more  VEE 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Live updating operating systems using virtualization
Many critical IT infrastructures require non-disruptive operations. However, the operating systems thereon are far from perfect that patches and upgrades are frequently applied, i...
Haibo Chen, Rong Chen, Fengzhe Zhang, Binyu Zang, ...
HOTOS
1999
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Hey, You Got Your Compiler in My Operating System!
Several operating systems projects revolve around moving functionality above or below the kernel "red line" to increase flexibility or performance. We describe how a gen...
Jon Howell, Mark H. Montague
SP
1990
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
A VMM Security Kernel for the VAX Architecture
This paper describes the development of a virtual-machine monitor (VMM) security kernel for the VAX architecture. The paper particularly focuses on how the system's hardware,...
Paul A. Karger, Mary Ellen Zurko, Douglas W. Bonin...