Data preprocessing is widely recognized as an important stage in anomaly detection. This
paper reviews the data preprocessing techniques used by anomaly-based network intrusion …

Software obfuscation has always been a controversially discussed research area. While
theoretical results indicate that provably secure obfuscation in general is impossible, its …

A shellcode is a small piece of code and it is executed to exploit a software vulnerability,
which allows the target computer to execute arbitrary commands from the attacker through a …

Nowadays the security of Web applications is one of the key topics in Computer Security.
Among all the solutions that have been proposed so far, the analysis of the HTTP payload at …

Machine learning classifiers are a vital component of modern malware and intrusion
detection systems. However, past studies have shown that classifier based detection …

The rapid improvement in DNA sequencing has sparked a big data revolution in genomic
sciences, which has in turn led to a proliferation of bioinformatics tools. To date, these tools …

Protecting a digital asset once it leaves the cyber trust boundary of its creator is a
challenging security problem. The creator is an entity which can range from a single person …

The availability of off-the-shelf exploitation toolkits for compromising hosts, coupled with the
rapid rate of exploit discovery and disclosure, has made exploit or vulnerability-based …

Botnets are one of the most serious security threats to the Internet and personal computer
(PC) users. Although botnets have not yet caused major outbreaks in the mobile world, with …

Identifying malicious web sites has become a major challenge in today's Internet. Previous
work focused on detecting if a web site is malicious by dynamically executing JavaScript in …