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The security architecture of the Plan 9 operating system has recently been redesigned to address some technical shortcomings. This redesign provided an opportunity also to …

Microsoft was pretty active in the past few days – they released five security bulletins dealing with the following products: SQL Server 2000, Windows Media Player, …

This paper reports the results of our work to systematically defend against Web spoofing, by creating a trusted path from the browser to the user. Starting with the Mozilla …

We introduce program shepherding, a method for monitoring control flow transfers during program execution to enforce a security policy. Program shepherding provides three …

Access control in Unix systems is mainly based on user IDs, yet the system calls that modify user IDs (uid-setting system calls), such as setuid, are poorly designed, …

We analyze the space of security policies that can be enforced by monitoring programs at runtime. Our program monitors are automata that examine the sequence of program …

The access control mechanisms of existing mainstream operating systems are inadequate to provide strong system security. Enhanced access control mechanisms have failed to win …

eEye staffers Marc Maiffret and Riley Hassell, were again busy on finding the bugs, so a new advisory hit the “streets” today. This time, there is a remote …

This contribution provides an overview of some of the security aspects of DSL-based corporate networks. With the expansion of the Internet and the increasing use of Internet …

SQL Server uses an undocumented function, pwdencrypt() to produce a hash of the user’s password, which is stored in the sysxlogins table of the master database. This is …

Some members of the open-source and free software community argue that their code is more secure, because vulnerabilities are easier for users to find and fix. Meanwhile the …

The paper is intended to be read by the portion of the security community responsible for creating protective mechanisms to guard against “shellcode” type security …