The vulnerabilities which plague computers cause endless grief to users. Slammer compromised millions of hosts in minutes; a hit-list worm would take under a second. Recently prop...
Joseph Tucek, James Newsome, Shan Lu, Chengdu Huan...
Data outsourcing or database as a service is a new paradigm for data management in which a third party service provider hosts a database as a service. The service provides data man...
Ahmed Metwally, Amr El Abbadi, Divyakant Agrawal, ...
Researchers have made great strides in improving the fault tolerance of both centralized and replicated systems against arbitrary (Byzantine) faults. However, there are hard limit...
Byung-Gon Chun, Petros Maniatis, Scott Shenker, Jo...
Hosts infected with malicious software, so called malware, are ubiquitous in today’s computer networks. The means whereby malware can infiltrate a network are manifold and rang...
Konrad Rieck, Guido Schwenk, Tobias Limmer, Thorst...
One of the most difficult problems to be solved by metacomputing systems is to ensure strong authentication and authorization. The problem is complicated since the hosts involved ...