Dedicated operating systems for embedded systems are fast being phased out due to their use of manual optimization, which provides high performance and small footprint, but also r...
Device drivers account for the majority of an operating system’s code base, and reuse of the existing driver infrastructure is a pragmatic requirement of any new OS project. New...
Kernel rootkits can provide user level-malware programs with the additional capabilities of hiding their malicious activities by altering the legitimate kernel behavior of an oper...
Targeting the operating system (OS) kernels, kernel rootkits pose a formidable threat to computer systems and their users. Recent efforts have made significant progress in blocki...
Jinku Li, Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, Michael C. Grace...
This paper presents the first analysis of operating system execution on a simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processor. While SMT has been studied extensively over the past 6 years,...