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HICSS
2007
IEEE
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16 years 24 days ago
Web Application Scanners: Definitions and Functions
There are many commercial software security assurance tools that claim to detect and prevent vulnerabilities in application software. However, a closer look at the tools often lea...
Elizabeth Fong, Vadim Okun
SP
2007
IEEE
16 years 22 days ago
ShieldGen: Automatic Data Patch Generation for Unknown Vulnerabilities with Informed Probing
In this paper, we present ShieldGen, a system for automatically generating a data patch or a vulnerability signature for an unknown vulnerability, given a zero-day attack instance...
Weidong Cui, Marcus Peinado, Helen J. Wang, Michae...
KBSE
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Generating Vulnerability Signatures for String Manipulating Programs Using Automata-Based Forward and Backward Symbolic Analyses
Given a program and an attack pattern (specified as a regular expression), we automatically generate string-based vulnerability signatures, i.e., a characterization that includes...
Fang Yu, Muath Alkhalaf, Tevfik Bultan
CCS
2007
ACM
16 years 19 days ago
Improving vulnerability discovery models
Security researchers are applying software reliability models to vulnerability data, in an attempt to model the vulnerability discovery process. I show that most current work on t...
Andy Ozment
ISSRE
2008
IEEE
16 years 26 days ago
Detection and Prediction of Resource-Exhaustion Vulnerabilities
Systems connected to the Internet are highly susceptible to denial-of-service attacks that can compromise service availability, causing damage to customers and providers. Due to e...
João Antunes, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Paulo Ve...