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SOUPS
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Stopping spyware at the gate: a user study of privacy, notice and spyware
Spyware is a significant problem for most computer users. The term “spyware” loosely describes a new class of computer software. This type of software may track user activitie...
Nathaniel Good, Rachna Dhamija, Jens Grossklags, D...
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Ensuring operating system kernel integrity with OSck
Kernel rootkits that modify operating system state to avoid detection are a dangerous threat to system security. This paper presents OSck, a system that discovers kernel rootkits ...
Owen S. Hofmann, Alan M. Dunn, Sangman Kim, Indraj...
SECURWARE
2008
IEEE
14 years 19 days ago
ToLeRating UR-STD
A new emerging paradigm of Uncertain Risk of Suspicion, Threat and Danger, observed across the field of information security, is described. Based on this paradigm a novel approac...
Jan Feyereisl, Uwe Aickelin
CANS
2006
Springer
136views Cryptology» more  CANS 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Watermarking Essential Data Structures for Copyright Protection
Software watermarking is a new research area that aims at providing copyright protection for commercial software. It minimizes software piracy by hiding copyright signatures inside...
Qutaiba Albluwi, Ibrahim Kamel
CCS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Automatic discovery of botnet communities on large-scale communication networks
Botnets are networks of compromised computers infected with malicious code that can be controlled remotely under a common command and control (C&C) channel. Recognized as one ...
Wei Lu, Mahbod Tavallaee, Ali A. Ghorbani